Posted on 12/12/2022 9:30:41 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not hold his annual year-end press conference for the first time in a decade, prompting speculation that the Russian leader is sick or running scared from answering questions about Ukraine as the war enters its 10th month.
“As for the big press conference, yes, it won’t happen before the New Year,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday.
“But we hope that the president will still find an opportunity to talk with [journalists], as he regularly does, including during foreign [visits],” Peskov added.
While Peskov gave no reason behind the move, the war in Ukraine and Russian troops having to make repeated retreats in recent weeks were likely both factors in choosing to break the tradition.
The move also draws attention to suspicions that Putin’s health is on the decline, especially following reports last week that he fell down the stairs and soiled himself.
The marathon end-of-year press conference — broadcasted live on TV and often lasting upwards of four hours — allows the Russian leader to polish his public image all while answering questions from 500-plus journalists.
The president had also postponed his annual live Direct Line question and answer session with ordinary Russian citizens over apparent concerns he would face difficult questions about the war and his chaotic call to mobilize 300,000 conscripts in September.
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Like the last days of Hitler.
Big tables and cancer. Talk about a lousy Christmas!
I think he’s worried about being at a certain place at a certain time where ukrainians could attack him, assassinate him like they try to do the Ukrainian leader.
He’s probably afraid of his own military...................
most most bullies and killers, putin is a coward
He just keeps dying over and over every day. It’s worse than the movie Groundhog Day.
I bet he got the homopox from his last romantic weekend with Lukashenko.
So much speculation, so little facts.
Why is your Putin afraid of answering questions from his own people?
What country are you from?
“I think he’s worried about being at a certain place at a certain time where ukrainians could attack him”
Like anytime of day in Moscow?
There is a natural desire that God will punish evil men in this world.
The truth is that it is in the next world that men like Putin will be subject to His wrath.
If they know he’s going to be there they can arrange a visit from a drone
I agree.
I also think that even if Putin isn’t there that a Ukrainian attack on the Kremlin would be humiliating to Russia and that it would lay bare their vulnerability to attack.
Because if Ukraine could pull that off then imagine what a real military power could do?
yup, pure hokem.
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for December 12, 2022.
- Russia continues its war of attrition - focusing on exhausting and overwhelming critical Ukrainian defenses around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine/western Russia;
- Despite claims that Russian missile stockpiles are depleted, Russia continues carrying out regular, large-scale missile barrages against Ukrainian infrastructure;
- Latest US assistance package for Ukraine continues the trend of dwindling, inadequate support for Ukraine;
- US government procurement numbers over the course of the next 2-5 years indicates that at no time in the near future will the US be capable of producing let alone supplying Ukraine with the number of weapons and ammunition it requires;
- While Russian production data is not available, the fact that Russia’s stockpiles and military were configured for large-scale protracted and intense combat suggests its military industrial output is likewise configured for such demands;
- The Western media is now admitting that Ukraine can neither win, nor is there any moral imperative to ensure that it does...
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for December 12, 2022.
- Russia continues its war of attrition - focusing on exhausting and overwhelming critical Ukrainian defenses around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine/western Russia;
- Despite claims that Russian missile stockpiles are depleted, Russia continues carrying out regular, large-scale missile barrages against Ukrainian infrastructure;
- Latest US assistance package for Ukraine continues the trend of dwindling, inadequate support for Ukraine;
- US government procurement numbers over the course of the next 2-5 years indicates that at no time in the near future will the US be capable of producing let alone supplying Ukraine with the number of weapons and ammunition it requires;
- While Russian production data is not available, the fact that Russia’s stockpiles and military were configured for large-scale protracted and intense combat suggests its military industrial output is likewise configured for such demands;
- The Western media is now admitting that Ukraine can neither win, nor is there any moral imperative to ensure that it does...
“He’s probably afraid of his own military.......”
He’s probably afraid of this little group of toothless, repetitive, deranged, obsessed warmongers on FR that have drawn a bead on him and make fools of themselves day after day.
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