A Russian military commander, Igor Girkin, also known by his military alias Igor Strelkov, has admitted that Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has backfired, Express reports. In an astonishing set of remarks on Russian television, the army veteran and former FSB officer confirmed that Ukraine has been successful in launching a fightback against Russia.
Girkin played a key role in the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and later led the separatist armed forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine. He admitted that Ukraine’s surprisingly successful fightback will never feature in the Kremlin’s own reports of the war.
Girkin told OSN TV: “29 days of ‘special military operation’ have passed. Nowhere, in any direction, has strategic success been achieved, but only operational successes. Moreover, the enemy is relatively successful in mobilising and beginning to counterattack. This, of course, Konashenkov never mentions in his reports.”
Major General Igor Konashenkov is the chief spokesman for Russia’s Ministry of Defense and deliveries regular televised updates of the progress of Russia’s invasion.
The former Russia spy agent added: “Unfortunately, I can state that my most pessimistic predictions that we will be drawn into a bloody, push and pull, long, exhausting and extremely dangerous war for the Russian Federation, have been fully justified at the moment.” Read more at Express.
{Matzav.com}
The war has failed because Russia is not in a war.
Propoganda propoganda and more propoganda. We’ve seen this in the Korean war, Vietnam war, etc …
2 April Russian news report. Igor Girkin has died of a heart attack.