Russia has decided relocate this Saturday to the highest ranking military officer in charge of logistics War campaign in Ukraine Seven months after the war in the neighboring country, the Kremlin could not achieve its goal. targetsHe now plans to succeed with partial mobilization and annexation referendums. General Dmitry Bulgakov Russia’s deputy defense minister was dismissed because he took another post from his post.”
He was replaced by Colonel General. Mikhail MizintsevUntil now, he was the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation and was responsible for “personally leading” the siege of the port city. Mariupol, according to Ukraine. Western media christened him the “Butcher of Mariupol” for this.
This dismissal follows several others the Kremlin has undertaken in recent months. high ranks It is at the forefront of the war response in Ukraine, according to British intelligence and analysis centers such as the Institute for War Studies.
logistics problems
In the last seven months, the West logistics problems and the supply suffered by the Russian Army, both war material as when sending reinforcements to the front.
This challenge was exacerbated as Ukraine began receiving longer-range weapons from the US and Europe, which allowed it to hit their lines accurately. Contact Y public transportcommand points and stockpiles of weapons, as well as supply and withdrawal routes for Russian troops.
Especially in the northeast Kharkov counterattack resulting in withdrawal Russian troops It proved Ukraine’s ability to cut Russia’s logistics lines.
But also attacks on pontoons and bridges in the southern province hersonAccording to Kiev, where all routes of withdrawal and supply are under Ukrainian fire control.
All this prevented Russia from achieving its goals of liberating the region. donbasConsolidating its position in the south, where it controls almost all of the pro-Russian Lugansk region and 55 percent of Donetsk, and now sees the danger of the land corridor stretching from the east to Ukraine. The Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014.
Putin’s recipes to save the enterprise
Faced with growing criticism of the military campaign’s progress within some power sectors and the military, expressed by military bloggers and regional leaders such as Chechen Ramzan Kadyrov, and even state propaganda and lawmakers, the Russian president Vladimir Putinchose a new escalation.
Now he wants to reach his goal by annexing the four regions that he cannot fully control yet. partial mobilization which decided on Wednesday.
According to independent media, the outcome of the referendums is already known Jellyfish. According to two sources close to the Kremlin, “about 90% will vote in favor” of joining Russia in Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as in Kherson and Zaporizhia.
Once the annexation is over, it will allow Putin to declare that his territory is under attack, and therefore he can defend it with all the means at his disposal.
With mobilization, Putin hopes calm the “war party” and regain lost initiative on the battlefield.
But British intelligence sees partial mobilization as an important challenge.
“Russia will likely struggle with the logistical and administrative challenges of bringing together 300,000 reservists. It will likely try to create new formations with many of these troops, but they are unlikely to be able to fight effectively quickly,” he said.
Meduza claims that Russia is actually planning to recruit 1.2 million people, as stated in the seventh paragraph of Putin’s secret decree.