They try to associate failures on the battlefield only with the military.
the country is trying to shift the blame for the failures in the war in Ukraine away from itself inside the country, according to the intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain.
So, on November 3, Major General Oleksandr Linkov was appointed acting commander of the Central Military District of the Russian Federation . Linkov replaced Colonel-General Oleksandr Lapin, who was allegedly dismissed from his post at the end of October 2022.
“If confirmed, this would be part of a series of dismissals of the Russian military command since the invasion began in February 2022. The commanders of the Eastern, Southern, and Western military districts were replaced at the beginning of this year,” analysts note.
In particular, Lapin was widely criticized for his poor performance on the battlefield in Ukraine, both by the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and by the head of Wagner, Yevhen Prigozhin.
The dismissal is an example of blaming top Russian military commanders for failures to achieve Russian goals on the battlefield.
Latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 06 November 2022
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