6/29/2023 0 Comments Tatiana i alexander![]() ![]() ![]() Until about the end of last summer, the most popular refrain was to quote Putin from his July 7 meeting with parliamentarians: “We are only getting started.” Back then it seemed like the Kremlin knew what it was doing, that it still had some aces up its sleeve.Īt the same time, there was a lot of talk about red lines, which if crossed would result in merciless and devastating retribution. It’s interesting to observe how the Russian authorities’ explanations of their defeats have evolved over the last fifteen months of war. ![]() The overall impression is that the Russian leadership does not fundamentally understand the danger the country is in right now. President Vladimir Putin is silent as usual his spokesperson refers all questions to the Defense Ministry and the Defense Ministry responds with endless reports of its successes that everyone stopped believing long ago. Yet none of this apparently warrants a public response. In addition to the repeated shelling of border regions, last week paramilitaries launched a cross-border raid of the Belgorod region, and now Moscow itself is under attack from drones. The Russian government’s reaction (or lack of) to what appear to be Ukraine’s increasingly audacious attacks on Russian territory is extraordinary. ![]()
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