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Putin is Losing Control of His Minions [1]
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Date: 2022-10-06
As their world crumbles before their eyes Putin’s allies are turning on each other, Russian Commanders are openly criticizing Putin and Russian soldiers are desperately looking for ways to abandon ship.
Take this recent report on the SOTA Telegram about words exchanged between Putin’s Chechen flunky Ramzan Kadyrov and the Commander of Russian forces that lost Liman:
Against the backdrop of Russia's loss of Liman, Ramzan Kadyrov's blog discredits the Russian army: “The defense of this sector was led by the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin. The same Lapin who received the star of the Hero of Russia for the capture of Lisichansk … In response, the colonel-general sent Tumso a letter in which he accused Kadyrov of not going to fight either: “Kadyrov said that I should be demoted to the rank of private, stripped of all awards and sent with a machine gun in my hands to the front line to wash away my shame with blood. And all this for the fact that I allegedly holed up in Lugansk, 150 kilometers from my units. Well, I took an example from Kadyrov, who sits thousands of kilometers away from his units on a luxurious sofa, sitting on this sofa he has repeatedly taken Kyiv and even prepared for an attack on Poland. I didn’t have such a luxurious sofa in Luhansk and I gave orders not on Tik-Tok broadcasts, but via special communications.” The fact that Lapin was not present at Liman was explained by the military man by the fact that he was the commander, and therefore should not be on the front line. He noted that he was “ready to pick up a machine gun and, as a private, wash away his shame with blood” if Kadyrov arrives at the front line as a commander.
Meanwhile, Russian Special Forces arrested Alexey Slobodenyuk. Slobodenyuk runs a pro-Russian Wagner telegram channel that has been critical of the performance of the Russian army. Seeing how Wagner is Putin’s private army, it looks like the Tsar needed to remind his slaves who their master is.
x In a society where leaders critics are arrested.
Putin's Spetsnaz forces arrested Alexey Slobodenyuk, director of a Telegram channels of the mercenary group Wagner. He was arrested for criticizing the failure of the Rus commanders in the Ukrainian War.
https://t.co/WSvvJkmtoO — Vernon Bush (@nonrev321) October 6, 2022
Putin is likely becoming concerned about losing his grip on information control:
Putin Faces Unprecedented Criticism From Russian Leaders as Battlefield Losses Mount State-sponsored news and officials responsible for the areas where Russian troops have experienced devastating losses are becoming emboldened in their criticism of the president.
Russian army mutiny: General tells Putin to 'f*** off' as anger grows over Ukraine debacle The Telegram channel, General SVR, reported in a recent meeting called by a furious Putin, one of his generals could no longer contain his frustrations and told the Russian president where he could go. General SVR said: "The most significant event of the meeting was a report to the President via video link from one of the Generals, who is located much closer to the front line than the other speakers. "Moreover, Putin tried to put the General in his place with a blunt threat. "The General wouldn't back down and told Putin to go you know where!" He added: "Putin stopped the video link and ordered his officials to 'shut the f***er up.'
Conscripts are in open rebellion over their miserable conditions and crappy weapons:
THOUSANDS of Russian soldiers 'have already called Ukrainian hotline set up to let them surrender' Ukraine set up hotline called 'I Want To Live' for Russian soldiers to surrender
Andriy Yusov, military intelligence spokesman, said 2,000 have already called
Some calls have come from troops still in Russia, about to go to the frontlines
Comes after Putin ordered 300,000 men to be conscripted to save his invasion
A Russian soldier describes using the hotline:
Of course, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense never misses an opportunity to troll the Russians as they splinter under pressure from Ukraine’s warriors:
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