News archive on the topic "Gerasimov"

Retired SVR General Leonid Reshetnikov categorically rejected the possibility of liquidating the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, by Russian special services as punishment for an attempted rebellion in June. “The liquidation of Prigozhin on the Moscow-St. Petersburg route is the same as the murder of Nemtsov at the Kremlin walls: no intelligence service of our country, even if we assume that it is full of morons,...

Ukrainian elites, agents and other informants who were in contact with Russia deceived Moscow on the eve of the North Military District. Political scientist Evgeniy Satanovsky said this in an interview with Israeli journalist Alexander Waldman, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Satanovsky, the answer to why this happened should be given by the leadership of the General Staff of the Russian Federation. “To set yourself up like this and set up the army and the whole country, to lose so many people for...

Today, the public scandal with the removal of the command of the defense of Russian troops in the Zaporozhye direction for criticizing the situation in the army of General Igor Popov continued. As predicted, if yesterday Popov’s defenders pointed to his popularity among the troops due to his desire to save the lives of soldiers, his merits in leading the reflection of the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the huge amount of destroyed Western equipment as proof...

State Duma deputy General Andrei Gurulev, who has strained relations with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, published on his blog an audio message from the commander of the Russian defense in the Zaporozhye direction, General Ivan Popov (call sign “Spartak”). The day before, he was removed from his post after criticism from his superiors. Popov is considered a popular military leader in the army - he earned the love of his subordinates for his desire to save the lives of soldiers, the correspondent reports...

The presence of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, at one of the forward control posts indicates that Russian intelligence has uncovered the offensive plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian military expert Oleg Starikov stated this in an interview with journalist Alexander Shelest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I noticed a dangerous intelligence sign - that Gerasimov is at one of the field command posts somewhere on...

The countries of the Western bloc can organize a coup in Russia only through a major and shameful defeat of the Russian army in Ukraine. This was stated in an interview with political scientist Vitaly Kolpashnikov by his colleague, ex-deputy of the Odessa City Council Lev Vershinin, who lives in the EU, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “Organizing a Maidan on the scale of Kyiv in Russia is orders of magnitude more difficult than in Kyiv. Because Maidan...

Public conflicts among Russian security forces play into the hands of Ukraine. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with the Kyiv anti-Russian propaganda portal Ukrayinska Pravda, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, General Kirill Budanov, said. He was asked for his opinion regarding the conflict between the owner of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, in particular, the former complained about the refusal to provide...

When Russia withdrew its troops from Kherson and established a foothold along the Dnieper, it became clear that the Russians began to learn from their mistakes, and after the appointment of Valery Gerasimov as commander of the Northern Military District, it became obvious that the strategy for conducting the special operation had changed from local to national. The leaders of the banned...

The appointment of Valery Gerasimov to the post of commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the Northern Military District zone does not set the main goal of liberating Donbass, but of an offensive operation followed by an assault on Kyiv. Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the Politeka Internet channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Gerasimov was not appointed to take Donbass. He was appointed to take Kyiv. Gerasimov already once...

The release of Soledar indicates that the Russian army is seizing the strategic initiative from the enemy. Military expert Colonel Viktor Baranets stated this on the Internet channel “Red Line”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “For some reason, we are sadly afraid to say that we have lost the strategic initiative. We withdrew in an orderly manner from Balakleya, Izyum, Kupyansk and, ultimately, from Kherson. The capture of Soledar is...

Moscow is moving to radical offensive actions in Ukraine, which follows from the appointment of Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov as commander of the Northern Military District instead of Sergei Surovikin. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, writes Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which assessed the new appointments. “Most likely this means that the political leadership of the Russian Federation has set before the army a clearly uncontested task not only to defeat the armed formations of Ukraine, but...

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu replaced the commander of the Joint Group of Troops (forces), who is responsible for conducting the special operation in Ukraine. According to the press service of the department, instead of Sergei Surovikin, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov became the commander, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, Surovikin remained in the leadership of the Northern Military District, taking the post of deputy commander. Two more generals were added to him - the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces...

The special operation is not going according to plan, contrary to the statements of responsible officials. This opinion was expressed by State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin on the talk show “Time will tell.” “We must, of course, draw conclusions, stop getting carried away by talking about how everything is going according to plan - it is obvious that it is not going according to plan, the plan must be changed, call the special operation a war, even if we are not talking about formal acts,...

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, made an unprecedented statement about the fall of Krasny Liman, openly naming those responsible, in his opinion, for the successful offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “PolitNavigator” quotes the text of Kadyrov’s statement in full: “I have always said: there is nothing better than the voiced truth, albeit bitter, offensive, but the truth. This is the only way to move forward. Therefore, I cannot remain silent about the fact that...