"Drive in the neck" for "catastrophe". Russian propaganda was covered by chaos, discord and wave of criticism against the authorities and warlords of the Russian Federation
Although the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to actively displace Russian troops in the Kharkiv region from September 6, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was silent for the defeat of its army for several days. And only on September 10, the department called the rapid retreat of the Russian army "by the decision to regroup Russian troops located in the areas of Balakliya and Izum, to increase efforts in the Donetsk direction.
" Video of the day, however, a late attempt to explain the withdrawal of troops faster made confusion to the ranks of Russian propagandists and military bloggers. NV tells of their reaction to the offensive of the Armed Forces - and what moods can mature in the Russian elites.
Among Russian military bloggers and in propaganda publications on social networks, criticism of Russian warlords, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and sometimes political leadership of Russia, has been spreading and increasing. Thus, the propagandist and the Russian militant "DNR" Zakhar Plepin, commenting on the failures of the army on the failure of the Russian Federation.
Like many of the most important voices of Russian propaganda, which have long been urging to declare mobilization in Russia, he also actually repeated the call to declare a special operation by war. “Special military operation has long been over. There is a war. And I do not know what else should happen to this fact to be accepted, ”Prilepin wrote.
Another pro -Kremliv blogger, who writes under the nickname "Mokogorov" in recent days he has published himself and respoured many publications with criticism of the official version of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on "regrouping" of Russian troops in the Izium direction.
Here is one of such posts, in which it is emphasized that "the state machine [RF] simply hand over three (!) Days" Ukrainian cities - in fact recognizing the rapid pace of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces where "Turchak promised that Russia is forever, where else On September 6, passports of the Russian Federation were issued. " "What happens is only anger […]," recognizes the author of fasting, which further comments on the official version of the Russian authorities.
- Are we waiting for the enemy to advance on Belgorod and Crimea? Is we successfully regugging from Belgorod to the Voronezh direction within the scope of our goals? ". He also states that the Russian "system is not going to be rebuilt" and offers "to drive in the neck of" their loyal "incompetent people from the military leadership of the Russian Federation.
And here's a comparison of posts and moods in the same Publite between February 24 and September 11: Former leader of DNR fighters Igor Girkin ("Strelkov") recognized "an acute operational crisis that is ongoing on a wide area of the front that has already grown into a great defeat ”. “Now, in fact, the language of our [Russian] parties can only go on how to stop its further deepening and prevent the growth of operational defeat - into a strategic one . . .
Although it has already grown in general. The enemy has already won the fight for the initiative. Now it should be about not allowing the Armed Forces to surround and destroy large units of our troops, ”Girkin wrote on September 10 about the successes of the Armed Forces in the Kharkiv direction.
And in one other piercing post to the Russian authorities, he suggested that they "transfer part of the Kharkiv region of Ukraine to the Kharkiv region of Ukraine (at least three border areas) of the Belgorod region. " Many international media and analysts also drew attention to the statement of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who said on September 11 in his audio in his telegram channel: “I am not a strategist as in the Ministry of Defense. But mistakes were made.
I think they will make conclusions. " In a statement, which the Institute for the Study of the War calls "a veiled criticism against the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation", Kadyrov also called "unfortunate" lack of comments about Russia failures from officials. “If there are no changes in the" special military operation "today or tomorrow, I have to go to the country's management, the Ministry of Defense, to clarify the situation on the ground.
She is very interesting, the official I would say, ” - Kadyrov's retreat of the Russian troops. A separate wave of criticism and indignation among Russian ultranational publicists provoked the celebration of Moscow's Day and the opening of the Moscow Sun Wheel on September 10. This ceremony, which was attended by Vladimir Putin, took place just the day when the Armed Forces's offensive (and with him and the retreat of troops of the Russian Federation) became peak.
There are no thermal imagers in the army [RF], there are no bulletproof vests, there is no intelligence agent, there is no protected communication, there are not enough copters, there are no first aid kits. You spend a billion holiday. And what about you? Well, not during such a terrible failure, ”Petro Lundstrom, a musician and one of the public voices of Russian propaganda wrote.
The experts of the Institute of War Study since September 8 stated that the breakthrough of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region undermined the trust in the Russian command among the invaders as much as it was observed since the defeat of the Russian Federation near Bigorivka (Lugansk region) in May 2022. Since then, such "tone and scale" of criticism among Russian propagandists has not been recorded, the ISW analysts emphasized.
Summarizing their reproaches against the commander -in -chief, there are several major ones: another wave of internal reaction to the retreat of Russian troops in the Kharkiv region - chaotic attempts to explain the catastrophic news to the Russian audience. One of the most popular versions that Russian propaganda has been promoting in recent days is that NATO servicemen are allegedly in Ukraine with invaders.
Such information was extended, for example, by the rupor of Russian television propaganda Vladimir Solovyov. Similar theses have spread to many other pro -Kremlin publications and networks almost simultaneously. Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko in contrast recalled how the same black English -speaking mercenaries from NATO look, publishing one of the numerous photos of the Ukrainian military in the liberated cities and settlements of Kharkiv region.
Another face of Russian propaganda Margarita Simonyan against the background of the rapid offensive of the Armed Forces in a strange form tried to turn to a false thesis about the alleged "common past" of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. And even remembered the Ukrainian language, the existence of which has recently denied. “In this situation, the best picture of the future is a common picture of the past. Our common past, recent.
When all together, when the Victory Day is when the parade, when Russian is taught and Ukrainian. When both in Kokoshniki and songs sing wonderful in the same language and the other. All together, all glad, all calm and proud that we are together. The wonderful picture was. I am sure that in the historical perspective, another option is impossible, ”Simonian said.
And sometimes in Russian TVs in recent days, abstracts have begun to appear, which are generally contrary to the Kremlin's official line. Thus, the ex -Duma ex -Duma Nadezhdin said in one of the recent broadcasts that Vladimir Putin and Russia were "substituted" by some people who promised that "special operation" would be fast and effective, and Ukrainians would "go to Russia themselves". "Someone said that the Ukrainians would surrender . . .
" Nadezhdin reminded, then getting into even greater revelation. - We approached the limit, which we need to remember one simple thing: to defeat Ukraine with those resources that Russia tries to fight in the colonial war mode - contractors are fighting there, PVC and so on mobilization is not absolutely absolutely. The Russian army is opposed by a strong army, which is fully supported by the economically and technologically European countries.
" When the presenter advised Nadezhdin to "monitor the rhetoric" and clarified whether he proposed to declare a general mobilization in Russia, he replied: "My proposal is to start negotiations on the end of the war and to go to political issues.
" Analysts of the Institute of War Study point out that public attacks on Sergei Shoig and the Defense Ministry of Defense, which are exacerbated among military bloggers, can "protect Vladimir Putin from responsibility for setting up unattainable goals of invasion" and probable man -made management of the military campaign.
Putin can put all the blame because of Russia's failures on the Defense Ministry and above military command - even support such criticism to continue to take off the blame personally, experts of ISW believe. However, international observers also pay attention to the wider effect of military criticism and propaganda confusion, which is increasingly throwing a shadow on Putin himself.
For example, The New York Times writes that the defeat of Russian troops in Ukraine "puts a new political challenge in front of Vladimir Putin": he undermines the image of "Competence and Mick", which has worked for two decades. "Power is the only source of Putin's legitimacy," said Abbas Gallyamov, a former Putin's former Sweather Sidemil, and now a political consultant who lives in Israel. - And in a situation where he finds out that he has no forces, his legitimacy will strive to zero.
" Gallyamov even suggested that events in Ukraine can lead to the elites that surround the Russian dictator will insist on a successor. "If they [the Armed Forces] continue to destroy the Russian army as actively as it is now," said Gallamov about the Ukrainian forces, "then the whole process can accelerate even more. " According to the analysts with whom NYT spoke, the fundamental problem is that Putin catches his tendency to mislead his own people.
After all, he recently stated that in the war in Ukraine Russia "lost nothing". Now the obvious failure of Russia "breaks down" in the Kremlin's statements that "the Russian army is allegedly invincible that Ukraine is imbued with corruption and cowardice, and Putin is a brilliant geopolitical strategist.
" Russian political studies Tatiana Stanova notes that the Kremlin's decision to diminish the intensity and scale of war in Ukraine has created parallel worlds: on the one hand, it is the realities of the largest terrestrial war in Europe for many decades, and on the other - the usual Moscow atmosphere. According to her, such a strategy was based on the expectations that Russia would won the war rapidly.
However, now the failure for failure is making the most difficult task to hide the fact that things are not planned. "In principle, the Kremlin built all its policy that it cannot be defeated," said the state. "They were not prepared for what could occur with this second parallel world. " Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vadim Denysenko in an interview with Radio NV even expressed the opinion that a new ultranationalist opposition of Putin is already being formed in Russia.
“What we see for the posts of even [propagandists of the Russian Federation Margarita] Simonyan, [Vladimir] Solovyov, according to the [Russian fighter" DNR "Zakhar] Zelepin, [terrorist Igor] Gritkina, we can say that a new opposition is already being formed in Russia. This new opposition can be conditionally called ultra -nationalists who want to be larger nationalists than Putin.
They understand that the construction of the political system in which Russia has existed for the last 22 years, after the death of Zhirinovsky, especially against the background of the defeat of the Russian army in the Kharkiv region, begins to change, ”Denysenko stressed. According to Denysenko, it is still difficult to predict whether Putin will go to institutionalize these nationalists. However, he considers a "huge plus" the fact that they now "break through the wall of silence.