The President of the Experts Council, affiliated with the Russian Strategic Development Fund, revealed in statements on Russian official television that his country was not ready for the war that President Vladimir Putin began on Ukraine in February, according to the American Newsweek magazine.
“We were not ready for the war that we started,” said Igor Schatrov, after Russia’s withdrawal from the city of Jiusson in southern Ukraine, and added in a video published by a Russian newspaper that Putin’s refusal to describe this attack as the war hinders Russian progress in Ukraine. Catrov also pointed out: We continue to call it a “special military operation”, and we are ashamed to call it a war, which is a big problem; Because with war, other laws apply.
This is not the first time that guests have referred to Russian official television to the country’s military setbacks in this war, as Vladimir Solovioff, Russian television broadcaster and Putin’s ally, nicknamed “Putin’s Voice” thanks to his strongly supportive views, said in November, that The officials thought that the war “would be much easier.
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He added in his program, Total contact, and he made his ideas about the war: “It is true that everything is going smoothly, yes, we thought that everything would be much easier. ” Ukrainian”.
Solovioff was the first regime’s journalist to describe the comprehensive Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “war. ” Before that, the state’s media emphasized the Kremlin’s account that this attack is a “special military operation” and not a “comprehensive war.
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Ukrainian President Foludmir Zellinski said in front of the G20 summit in a remote contact on Tuesday, he sees Putin’s war “can be stopped now. “.
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