Posted on 12/21/2022 4:14:05 PM PST by marcusmaximus
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the Russian army must learn from and fix the problems it had suffered in Ukraine, promising to give the military whatever it needed to prosecute a war nearing the end of its 10th month.
In a speech to defence chiefs in Moscow, Putin said there were no financial limits on what the government would provide in terms of equipment and hardware.
"We have no funding restrictions. The country and the government are providing everything that the army asks for," he said.
Putin acknowledged, not for the first time, that the call-up of 300,000 reservists that he ordered in September had not gone smoothly.
"The partial mobilisation that was carried out revealed certain problems, as everyone well knows, which should be promptly addressed," he said.
The call-up drew strong criticism even from Kremlin allies, as it emerged that military commissariats were enlisting many men who were physically unfit or too old, and new recruits were lacking basic equipment such as sleeping bags and winter clothing.
Putin also referred to other unspecified problems in the military and said that constructive criticism should be heeded.
"I ask the Ministry of Defence to be attentive to all civilian initiatives, including taking into account criticism and responding correctly, in a timely manner," he said.
"It is clear that the reaction of people who see problems - and there are always problems in such major, complex work - can be emotional, but we need to hear those who do not hush up the existing problems, but strive to contribute to their solution."
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His posture says:
HOW do I get out of this shit show???
Problems? what problems?
May Vlad someday look back to the first year of the war
with regret.
We’re buying the best stuff the towelheads in Iran have to offer! How come you guys are struggling?
Yesterday Putin was blaming the FSB and FSO for the botched invasion. Not very smart of him if he doesn’t want to accidentally fall out of a window.
He looks like Napoleon at Waterloo.
The photo is from 2 or 3 days ago. Very recent.
Biden says the very same thing, oh wait a minute, we can't talk about stolen elections, sexual grooming at our schools, our border invasion. Okay never mind, I'm wrong.
Putin dictator.
Biden promotes democracy & freedom.
Oops, wrong again.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4118027/posts
Ukrainians have been losing hundreds of thousands of men as casualties we estimate they've had 400 000 casualties of which over 100 000 are dead. Now, very recently, Ursula Vandelion, who is the president of the European Union actually admitted that the Ukrainians had lost at least a hundred thousand dead. The truth is that over the last several months, the losses have been so heavy that we think it's probably closer now to about 120 to 125 000.
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So Ukraine is really in a lot of trouble and that's why Zelensky is working very very hard to convince everybody that we should give our last full measure for Ukraine, but it's not going to work and Ukraine is going to be destroyed and as we've seen from the new missile strikes the energy grid is almost completely gone, electricity is almost totally absent, water, food all the amenities that make life bearable are missing, and millions of Ukrainians are now leaving Ukraine because they cannot live where they are.
We should really be interested in easing the burden on the Ukrainians and that burden will not be eased by supplying more arms that the Russians will simply destroy or capture. It will be eased by negotiations in which the West has to concede territory to Russia and agree to a non-NATO status, in other words, a neutral status for Ukraine.
Putin is obviously now part of the Soros propaganda machine as we all know that the Russians have no problems and everything is going according to plan, right?
Stalin looked back on the first eighteen months of the war with regret.
After November 1942, no more regrets.
Will the ChiComs come to Putin’s rescue like the US did for Stalin?
If the Ukrainians had 400,000 casualties, the war would be over. They only HAD 300,000 troops, including paramilitary and reserves. Dipspit Vandelion misspoke, referring to casualties as fatalities.
Here is a little country well known for laundering money for corrupt politicans. In comes an invader who gives those same corrupt scum the ultimate excuse to push thier dirty money scam to statospheric heights. Was Putin in on the dirty dealings or did he simply make a monumental blunder?
Putin’s words sound like something a government bureaucrat would say. It’s like he is not in charge.
The most corrupt politician in Ukraine is a rank amateur compared to your average Russian office holder.
Fortunately we are not giving foreign aid to Russia....yet.
Democrat perverts hate Putin because Putin hates perverts.
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