According to British secret services, the Kremlin wants to boost the morale of its own troops with music and culture. A few days ago it was announced that two so-called “creative brigades” with circus people, actors and opera singers would be deployed to the front.
The British Ministry of Defense announced this on Sunday in its daily short message on Twitter. The British assume that Moscow closely links the cultural and entertainment offensive with ideologically shaped political education. This has been closely intertwined since Soviet times.
It doesn’t seem to boost morale
However, there are doubts whether the Kremlin will achieve its goal of boosting the morale of Russian troops. The main problems, according to the British Ministry of Defence, remain the high number of war casualties, poor leadership, problems with salaries and the incomplete equipment of the soldiers. Creative brigades could probably do little there.
According to the authorities, the Russian troops recently had a visit: Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu viewed the military positions in Ukraine. “The head of the Russian military authority flew around the deployment areas of the armed forces and inspected the front positions of Russian units in the area of the special military operation,” the defense ministry announced on its Telegram channel on Sunday.
Troops poorly supplied?
The text is accompanied by a video showing the minister in the helicopter. Shoigu is said to have listened to the commanders’ reports and talked to common soldiers. It was mainly about supplying the armed forces. After the partial mobilization ordered in September, numerous recruits complained that they were not adequately equipped and trained for the war in Ukraine.
The Minister of Defense had already inspected the front in the summer and was reported to the command staff in November. Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, has not been at the front since the beginning of the war. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his Ukrainian opponent, appears there again and again.
Source: Krone
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