FSB Director Bortnikov and Security Council Director Patrushev are not on board with Putin's mobilization and martial law plans.
Posted on 09/20/2022 3:41:56 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian president Vladimir Putin was expected to give a speech at 6pm London time from Moscow potentially announcing the official declaration of war in Ukraine to defend Russian-occupied territories, but kept the world waiting on Tuesday night.
Russian news channel that announced the speech deleted their posts around two hours after the Russian leader was set to begin what would have been his first international announcement since the country’s invasion of Ukraine on February 25.
It appeared as though the Russian leader had cancelled his speech, pushing it back to Wednesday, according to a Telegram account run by political analyst Sergei Markov, close to the Kremlin.
‘They can’t even mobilise a speech,’ said one observer, mocking the apparent cancellation.
'Rumour has it that Putin’s speech has been delayed due to his long walk from the end of the table to the press room,' joked another.
The speech will take place at 6am London time (8am Moscow time) on Wednesday, according to Forbes Russia, which cited two sources allegedly from the Kremlin administration saying the speech will be broadcast 'when the Far East wakes up'.
The news comes after Dmitry Medvedev, a staunch Putin ally, vowed that 'all forces of self-defence' will be used to protect what he called 'Russian territory' — hinting at an escalation in Ukraine.
Moscow's parliament then passed new laws paving the war for Putin to end his 'special military operation' and officially declare a war, allowing him to mobilise Russia's massive population into the army.
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Not our problem. Let the Fourth Reich deal with the Russian Empire.
I suspect it’s been delayed until a better time when Russia’s Far East territories also will be awake to hear it. Many time zones… remember?
Putin delayed his war declaration speech for the Craphole-istans? LOL!
“Potentially announcing”
Same old Russophobic Brits.
Keep your Biden the hell out of my wallet.
When are you volunteering to defend Ukraine?
Would that give Ukraine the right to start attacking sites in Russia?
“ Putin delayed his war declaration speech for the Craphole-istans? LOL!”
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Dude/Dudette,
You really need to brush up on your world geography. Look how much of Russia (and its many time zones) is beyond the easternmost border of Kazakhstan (the easternmost of the -stan countries).
Sounds like Russia is tiring of fighting the USA and the UK with one hand tied behind their back.
So, they’re going to declare war, I wonder if it will be just on Ukraine or all the ones they’ve been fighting in Ukraine and imposing sanctions on their country?
Let’s see what France and Turkey does, that should be interesting.
Our warmongers will be quite pleased for a while. Some sick people that’s for sure.
I’m sorry. I forgot about the Mongolian lands.
World War I was the war that should not have happened.
Once it did World War II was pre-determined by how World War I ended and made a necessity.
World War I the root of all evils from Communism to Naziism and all we have seen since including the recent events related to Ukraine.
You can always tell marcusmaximus has to take his/her/them hormone blockers after posting more communist daily fail propaganda
More 4-d chess from Putin. First, he makes it look like he’s going forr Kiev (NOT Kyiv). Then, he makes it look like he’s getting his ass kicked. All so he can declare war. And now he’s making us sweat as to how many countries he’s going to declare war against. Ukraine? Poland? U.K.? U.S., all of NATO? Why not India and China, too? There’s a price to pay for turning Putin down!
Any more criminally-insane prisoners for the Wagner Group? Remember, if you can survive six months on the Ukrainian front, we’ll consider a pardon.
Any more T-66s in storage? What about T-55s? Heck, Russia beat Germany with T-34s, only appropriate that Russia should denazify Europe again with those glorious tanks.
Speaking of pronouns, has anyone ever seen marcusmaximus and Mark Milley in the same room?
Hmmmmmmm.
A thin disguise to Milley Vanilli's true identity...
Oh gee. It’s not like an American presidential address was always on time
Spose you forget about the plains Indians lands too.
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