Posted on 10/29/2022 3:38:41 PM PDT by dennisw
Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely not survive in office if he loses the war in Ukraine, the embattled nation’s head of military intelligence claimed this week.
“It’s unlikely that he survives it,” said Ukrainian Major General Kyrylo Budanov, who heads up the country’s Defense Intelligence directorate, in an interview with the War Zone. If Russia loses the war, Putin would likely be overthrown, he said, without elaborating on what he meant by “survive.”
“Currently, there’s active discussions happening in Russia about who’d be there to replace him,” said Budanov, who did not provide any more specifics.
Budanov also told the online military magazine that Ukrainian forces are poised to take back Kherson City on the Black Sea and other territory annexed by Russia at the end of November.
Kherson, which serves as the gateway to the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia days after the conflict began in February, is currently being held by 40,000 Russia’s elite forces, he said.
“The most trained and most capable Russian units are currently in Kherson,” said Budanov. “A large share of them are from airborne troops of the Russian Federation, Russian special operation forces and the naval infantry, so the most capable units that Russia has. Those units form the backbone of the grouping and [they] are being strengthened by the mobilized personnel also.”
Budanov also denied Russian reports that Ukraine was preparing a dirty bomb, a nuclear weapon constructed from radioactive waste to use against Russia.
“Ukraine has never in its history produced such devices,” he said. “It has never planned, it’s not planning and it’s not going to plan to do anything like that. Unlike the Russian Federation, who is, as I said before, a terrorist state and they’re likely to do anything.”
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Ha, Ha, ha, Ha.
I can’t quit laughing at the infantile level of propaganda posted on FreeRepublic these days.
Arya Putin: "Here, milord. They are here."
Do they realize that Putin would be replaced by a much *less* reasonable hardliner?
Or is it the one who intercepts US dollars being wasted over there, instead of going to the cause for which they were sent?
It's so confusing to know...
This would be true because the Russian people would want him dead for inflicting a disastrous war that they didn’t want on them.
“Do they realize that Putin would be replaced by a much *less* reasonable hardliner?”
Probably not. When your country is being invaded you don’t bother to think that the next dictator could be worse.
Can he tell me who’s going to win the Super Bowl also? I’ll make sure not to bet on them.
:)
Military intelligence is an oxymoron.
“Putin not expected to survive Ukraine conflict, claims Ukraine intelligence chief”
Well, that’s what Putin gets for being so hesitant regarding Ukraine and trying to first settle it peacefully.
Now the war will progress faster for Russia once Putin is gone.
Zeepers! 😂😂😂😂
Now that the end is in sight for the Putinic Wars, the question is what happens to Vlad The Little. Worst case scenario for him - he gets Ghaddafied on the streets of Moscow. Worst case,Vlad The Little gets shipped off to prison in some remote island in the Barents Sea (ala Napoleon) where he lives out the rest of his life.
Second Worst Case = Best case
That's a fairy tale only a 10 year old girl could appreciate. Well done!
Did we ever wish death to the President for all of our disastrous wars inflicted onus causing thousands of deaths and debilitating injuries like in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Is this the same guy who was in charge of the Intelligence Defense when Ukraine claimed Russia wouldn’t invade…the day before they did? 🤣
Has any of the wars, aside from WWII), cost the equivalent of 200,000 lives?
I don’t think, when it’s all over, that the Russian people are going to forgive Putin.
I’m not the side of the Ukraine, because I know the Zelensky and crew were tasked to bring down Russia in order to incorporate it into the NWO.
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