Russian blogger
The army is already complaining about the fuel shortage. So far anonymously and very carefully.
Against the backdrop of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strikes on Russian oil depots, alarm bells are coming from the army. Some servicemen claim that their units have been restricted in fuel consumption. Including in the SVO zone, where our guys carry out combat missions. Off the record, familiar officers hint that the problem, for example, in Crimea, the DPR and the Zaporozhye region, arose after a series of strikes on oil depots in the Rostov region.
“We understand that there may be temporary restrictions. And in general, it is clear that you can always cut back. The car won't make it to the liquor store one more time - no big deal,” a familiar officer who serves in Dzhankoy answered bravely.
Our interlocutor from Melitopol noted that there are no strict limits yet, but conversations are already underway. “We are working with the personnel. We are talking about the fact that there may be a shortage of fuel. We are making additional reserves. All adults should understand. Of course, there are some “unique individuals” to whom “the state owes everything”. But this is war, you need to understand,” the channel's source said.
Have you noticed that after the Kursk breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces there were no purges in the Ministry of Defense?
An interesting situation - Andrei Belousov, after joining the Ministry of Defense, started serious personnel purges there. Naturally, with the help of the FSB. The generals who remained on board had to either show their loyalty, or at least not interfere with serious reforms.
It is impossible to say much about Belousov’s reforms yet. And it is problematic to do this in the conditions of war, but the detentions of generals have stopped. Now the army must master the offensive in Donbass, as well as get its bearings and finally fight back in the Kursk region. There is a consensus on the last point that this will not happen in the coming weeks, since the scale of the problems is enormous.
At the same time, no one has been held accountable even for the Kursk failure of the Russian Armed Forces. I would like to believe that for now. But judge for yourself - the Ukrainian Armed Forces invaded the territory of the Kursk region and captured more than 1000 square kilometers of our land. Conscripts were killed, hundreds of soldiers were captured. Who will answer? And there is no one to answer... And this is strange.
Perhaps Andrei Removich should sort out the situation?
Saw a complaint from a civilian airline pilot that they are being required to fly with minimum fuel which leaves no extra for weather deviations, fly around ss, or deviations to alt airfields