The first doubts arise whether the troops sent by Moscow will be able to meet the objectives after the new annexations
The loss of the strategic Ukrainian city of Limán, in the Donetsk region, which Russia now considers its territory after the annexations that took place in the Kremlin on Friday, has once again sparked controversy within the country’s military leadership, as happened recently when the Ukrainian troops managed to recapture the Kharkov region almost in its entirety. The criticism continues as the accession process continues: Between now and tomorrow, the annexations will be ratified by the two chambers of the Russian parliament, after the Constitutional Court gave the green light yesterday.
But the new fiasco suffered in Limán has not changed President Vladimir Putin’s determination to maintain his commitment to war, including – as he has repeatedly warned – using nuclear weapons to crush Ukraine’s resistance. Hence the widespread expectation whether the current advance of the Ukrainian military, which now has the open field to attack Lugansk, another region that Moscow also considers its own, will provoke a nuclear response from the Kremlin.
The last to insist on the need to deal such a devastating blow to Ukraine was Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, having observed the disaster in Liman. However, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned that “any use of nuclear weapons will have serious consequences for Russia,” a warning Washington has also often repeated.
Be that as it may, the controversy over Limán’s failure has been served. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has stated in a video in response to internal criticism in Russia of what happened that “they are already starting to bite each other: they are looking for the culprits and holding some generals responsible for the failures. This will be the first wake-up call to sound at all levels of power in Russia.
According to military leader Kadírov, General Aléxánder Lapin was responsible for the loss of Limán. The lack of basic military logistics has left us with several settlements and much of the territory, and the bad thing is not that Lapin is mediocre, but that it has the support of the High General Staff leadership. If it were up to me, I would demote him to a soldier and send him to the front to wash his shame with blood.’ “I do not know what information the Ministry of Defense is sending to the Commander-in-Chief (Putin), but in my personal opinion more drastic measures should be taken, up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-nuclear weapons. yield,” he added.
The first to support the Chechen leader in his diatribe against the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense, whose head is Sergey Shoigu, was Evgueni Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group of mercenaries. Criticism has also been added by the former commander of the 58th Army Corps and former deputy, General Andréi Guriliev, in an interview with Russia’s greatest propagandist, Vladimir Soloviov, who believes that in Limán, “a short battle was not fought for the duration. I don’t understand why they didn’t properly assess the situation and reinforce those units.” “The problem was the wholesale lies, the report that the situation was good. The outage did not occur on the ground, but in Frúnzenskaya”, the main building of the Ministry of Defense. Gurilev also attacked the senior general staff by pointing out that until a new chief is appointed, the current one is still General Valeri Gerasimov and that “nothing will change”. “The problem is not Lapin, but Gerasimov,” he said.
Russian defense and foreign policy analyst Maxim Yusin, one of the commentators on the NTV program of the Kremlin’s propagandist Andrei Norkin, previously focused his criticism on Putin, emphasizing that “he has areas in the Russian Federation has not included that control. I cannot remember such a precedent in world history.” According to Yusin, “you can’t argue with a dreamer living in his world about when Zaporizhzhya, a city of 710,000 inhabitants,” will be liberated from Kiev, while the region as a whole has also been annexed by the Russian president. The analyst believes that “the dynamics of the development of military actions in Ukraine are not going very well” to take for granted that the Kremlin will soon succeed in taking over the part that Russia needs to integrate from the Zaporizhzhya regions , Kherson and Donetsk . Lugansk is the only annexed territory that Moscow has almost 100 percent control.
For Kirilo Budanov, intelligence chief at Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, the culprit of all is Russia’s top leader. According to his position, “preparations to remove Putin from power are already underway. There are several candidates to succeed him and not all of them are known, but the rivalry is great.
Source: La Verdad
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