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Why Putin ordered an impossible to sustain offensive in Soledar
He had no other choice
Igor Girkin, former commander of Russian militants in Donbas and a prominent milblogger wants Vladimir Putin to be dispatched out of his office.
If Girkin had written a year ago that Putin chose a wrong pair of shoes, he may have self-dived out of his balcony or driven safely to the longest prison sentence in Russia. Today, he is openly talking about removing Putin from power and there is hardly any response from Kremlin.
The nativist, isolationist, nationalist and extremist Russian right-wing is gravitating slowly away from Putin. They finally saw the message stuck on the notice board — — Putin is not winning the war. He is losing and making things up on the go.
Two days ago, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that General Valery Gerasimov will take over as theater commander from General Sergei Surovikin.
After starting the war with multiple commanders in February, Putin changed his approach and unified command under general Dvornikov in April. Since then, he kept changing his theater commander every few months. The…
