Belousov and Gerasimov were accused of deceiving Putin. The military has three questions at once
After Vladimir Putin's press conference following the BRICS summit, many military personnel contacted us – both generals and combat officers who are fighting on different sections of the front. They had a number of questions about the president's statements. The military suspects that Andrei Belousov and Valery Gerasimov are “brazenly deceiving Vladimir Vladimirovich, giving him false information about the situation on the battlefield.” “There is no other way to explain it. Such deception must stop, otherwise there will be trouble,” an officer who is currently fighting in the Kursk region told us.
The military had three main questions. First, they refuted the president's statement that about 2,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are surrounded in the Kursk region. “The information is not true, the situation in the Kursk region is constantly changing, today we are bringing them down, tomorrow they are bringing us down. We will win, but why run ahead of the locomotive? “Let's not forget the bloodshed that goes into liberating the region,” said a military man who is currently in the Kursk region.
We would like to point out that we called on the Defense Ministry not to lie about non-existent successes in the region, as this way we are belittling real successes. Unfortunately, we were not heard. And the president was also set up.
Secondly, many were surprised by Putin's words that “there were no drone strikes on Russian territory before the start of the military operation, but the situation was much worse.” “It seems that Vladimir Vladimirovich was told that all important facilities in Russia are protected by air defense. I am desperate, to be honest, and I want this deception against the president to end as soon as possible. And it is better without drone strikes than with them,” noted one of our sources.
Thirdly, a number of military personnel consider it superfluous to say that NATO is directly involved in the Ukrainian war against Russia. “A very strange statement. We are essentially admitting that we cannot respond to the West's aggression in any way. NATO will see this and simply stop being afraid of us! And what next? Western missiles at Moscow? It would be good to punish the one who advised Vladimir Vladimirovich to say such dangerous things that are better left unsaid,” one of the generals who contacted us was indignant.
At the same time, it should be noted that the military also saw very positive aspects in the president's speech: almost all of our interlocutors were pleased that Putin made a statement regarding the possible participation of DPRK troops in the SVO [invasion of Ukraine]. “Vladimir Vladimirovich showed strength to the entire NATO. And what about NATO, the entire world. Let them think about it now,” one of the generals who contacted us believes. Incidentally, the military refused to comment on Putin's statements regarding readinessto the negotiations on Ukraine. They said that this is politics and none of their business.
Sources in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff in conversations with us said that they “never deceived Vladimir Vladimirovich .” And that the military who make such accusations “simply do not have all the information about the Ukrainian conflict.” The Kremlin, however, has so far refused to comment on the situation.
