Georgy Zakrevsky, who is the owner of the small Russian PMC "Paladin", has frankly accused the Kremlin dictator and war criminal Vladimir Putin of the collapse of the Russian army.
What is known about Zakrevsky's frank criticism of Putin
Separate fragments from Zakrevsky's interview with one of the Russian mass media are published by Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazanskyi.
Zakrevskyi also noted that Putin is also to blame for the defeat of the Russian army in the criminal war against Ukraine.
According to him, the Kremlin regime operating in Russia is unable to change the course of the war against Ukraine.
We were told a lot about the army, how powerful and beautiful it is in our country. All these wonderful reports... Where are our "Armata’s" [type of tanks — Ed]? Where are all these "unparalleled" weapons?, the owner of the Russian PVC.
He emphasized that the Russian Ministry of Defense achieved nothing within the framework of the so-called "special operation" in Ukraine.
Moreover: they lie all the time. Lately they have been self-isolating. The so-called president is suspended. Why is the Ministry of Defense here? This person is responsible for everything that happens in the country, Zakrevsky notes.
He also pointed to deep and systemic problems in the Russian economy.
We have been told for a long time that our country is rising from its knees, that its industry is developing. ... It turned out that there is nothing: there is no industry, there is no economy. It turned out that we don't even make white paper because we don't have the components. We do not make ordinary toilet paper. We do not make automotive gearboxes, which were invented and made in the world already 70 years ago, Zakrevsky explains.
How well-known Russian propagandists oppose the Kremlin
Maxim Kalashnikov, the henchman of the Russian terrorist Igor Girkin arrested by the Kremlin, commenting on the situation at the front in Ukraine, noted that it is the Russian occupying army that the Ukrainian military is setting up a meat grinder at the show.
According to him, the creation of a bridgehead by the Ukrainian military on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region is a hunt for the Russian army.
The logic is as follows: units of the Armed Forces (even the elite marines) land in Krynyk. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces for some reason cannot prevent such a crossing, despite superiority in the air and in artillery barrels. Not only that, the aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is starting to make raids deep into our positions - we have considerable gaps in air defense. Therefore, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation immediately made attempts to drop the Marine Bander into the river from the Krynkiv bridgehead. Starts head-on assaults - meat attacks. And the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the Dnipro begins to cover our troops, their headquarters, artillery, and tanks with long-range systems and drones. In fact, exterminating us, declares Girkin's henchman.
According to him, the more the Russian Armed Forces attack, the more they lose. The occupiers at the front claim that "time is one step ahead of them", and the Ukrainian military has a massive advantage in drones.
There is no fight against them, and the attack drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reach even the Msta self-propelled guns forty kilometers from the LBS. Unmanned bombers of the Armed Forces have more and more carrying capacity, drones have appeared that can carry eight (!) 82-mm mines! In essence, these are the capabilities of World War I aircraft. But with much greater accuracy of throwing. It literally knocks out our infantry. And technology too. We desperately lack small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery to fight killer drones, Kalashnikov notes.
Not even the notorious EW [electronic warfare — Ed.] does not save Russians from drones. In addition, according to associate Girkin, the occupiers will lose the counter-battery fight to the AFU.
Their art grinds us. But the enemy is doing well with EW and radio technical intelligence. I would like to add: our superiors cannot conduct even a local air offensive operation: destroy the enemy's anti-aircraft defense in at least one critical area of the front and completely isolate it, destroying the transport of all the necessary armed forces from the sky. And the very units of the enemy, his artillery, warehouses, headquarters, heavy equipment, Kalashnikov emphasizes.
In the end, the struggle for the bridgehead in Krynky village becomes a grinding of the occupying forces of the Russian Federation. According to Kalashnikov, while trying to repulse the Defense Forces of Ukraine, assault units and equipment of the Russian Federation "come under deadly fire across the river and UAV attacks."
The same is observed near Avdiivka, unfortunately. We get our Bakhmut again. Leaving Kherson in the fall of 2022, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lost the opportunity to strike the flank and rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south, opening the way to Odesa. And now they get a not very pleasant prospect of their own exhaustion/exsanguination. Damn it, the enemy forced us to take the initiative! If we do not transfer the war to another sphere, then everything can end very badly for us. Actually, on the front line, the enemy is technically superior to us. Yes, he does not produce the systems he uses himself, he is a competent user. But at one time, the Japanese (1904-1905) on British-built ships proved to be the same competent users, Kalashnikov emphasizes.
Kalashnikov is convinced that if this is not done, and the Kremlin will continue to believe that "the armed forces will run out and the West will tire of supporting Kyiv", the Russian Federation may fall into the millstone of "refining" its troops.
Add to this the fact that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, by raising the discount rate, is successfully grinding away industry and import substitution in the Russian Federation itself, which is crushing our rear. This especially applies to the military-industrial complex. Because he is "laundering" working capital (you won't live long on the state defense order, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is ruthlessly cutting costs), and you won't replenish the "turnover" with loans. Interest rates are too high. This will inevitably lead to the fact that our Military Industry will not be able to improve weapons and modern technical systems, emphasizes Girkin's henchman.
