Shlosberg’s newspaper reported in August on the funerals of two 76th Guards paratroopers, Leonid Kichatkin and Alexander Osipov.
Kichatkin’s widow, Oksana, announced her husband’s funeral on her social media page. When reporters began asking about her husband, the post was replaced with one claiming he “is alive and well.”
And when reporters called the Kichatkin home, the phone was answered by a man pretending to be Oksana’s dead husband.
Yikes! Obama only dreams of this kind of creative narrative “shaping”. No wonder he’s so prickly about Putin’s taunts.
When you lose 80 of your most elite soldiers in a battle, then something serious is going on.
I believe there is a small chance this war will lead to Putin’s fall. There is a rather larger chance that it will be the mechanism for the rise of an old time Russian Autarchy. Does Putin have a son?
Putin is not able to contain what is happening in Ukraine from the Russian people. The Russian people and the military are his biggest problem.