Russian army does not satisfy Putin’s desire for victory

Russian President Vladimir Putin demands tangible results from his military in Ukraine to stand for crucial stage nation state addresshe first that he will pronounce for almost two years, but he achieved no more than huge territorial gains.

“We did not start military actions, we tried to end them. Hostilities were launched by nationalists in Ukraine and those who supported them in 2014,” Putin said ten days later. to address Parliament on 21 February.

Putin had to repeatedly delaying his annual programmatic address due to a lack of battlefield victories. The decision to annex four Ukrainian regions nearly six months ago also did not improve Russia’s prospects on the front.

The proximity of the first anniversary of the conflict – February 24 – and Western promises of heavy offensive weapons in Kiev – from tanks to long-range missiles – force it to show its face for the first time since April 2021.

Mercenaries save the face of the Kremlin

Whether the Kremlin likes it or not, the only good news from the front comes from the mercenaries of the wagner group, who assured on Sunday to have took a new locality near Bakhmut (Donetsk).

It is the city of Krasna Gora (Red Mountain), which is ten kilometers from Bakhmut, between Soledar, taken last month, and this vital Ukrainian stronghold. This means that the Wagners have I film the road leading to one of the main military places of Ukraine – Sloviansk.

He Wagner’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, returned to throw a poison dart at the army, assuring that Moscow has not deployed regular troops to the region. and that the dirty work continues to be done by its soldiers of fortune. “There is no special detachment (…). Within a radius of about 50 kilometers there are only Wagnerian soldiers, that they will eventually conquer Bakhmut,” he said on Telegram, EFE reports.