Retired Soviet colonel has declared on Russian state TV that the war is not going well for Putin and urged viewers to stop taking “information tranquillisers”
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Russian state TV exposes Putin in ‘damning assessment’
Russian state TV has finally admitted the Ukraine war is a failure and the country is globally isolated in a moment of shocking candour.
Mikhail Khodaryonok, a retired Soviet colonel, has given a damning assessment on Russian state TV of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine — indicating the Kremlin leader is failing with the whole world against them.
In an astonishing tirade that lasts nearly five minutes, Khodaryonok told Russian state TV to stop taking “information tranquillisers” and rejected the idea that the Ukrainian army is becoming demoralised.
BBC reporter Francis Scarr called it a moment of “extremely rare candour” in which the former air defence commander said Russia ‘s position on the world stage was in “full geopolitical isolation”.
He said that as much as Russia would hate to admit it, virtually the whole world is against them.
Khodaryonok spoke about Russia saying it will not “put up with” Finland and Sweden’s bid to join the western NATO alliance.
He said to look at the situation as “a whole from the overall strategic position” and sabre-rattling with sending missiles towards Finland is not threatening it is, in fact, “very amusing”.
Mikhail Khodaryonok admitted the Ukraine war has been a failure for Russia
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Khodaryonok said the Ukrainian troops are bolstered by reams of foreign help and that they will be even more equipped in the “near future”, massively expanding the abilities of Kyiv’s forces.
The anchor, Skabeyeva, repeatedly tries to interrupt the ex-colonel by saying the army will be made up largely of conscripts. Khodaryonok says that is irrelevant, but what is noteworthy is the Ukrainian desire to “protect one’s homeland”.
He thinks the troops intend to fight “to the last man”.
Speaking with the show’s host Olga Skabeyeva, he said: “They’re saying it themselves, that ‘for us, there’s no difficulty in mobilising a million people’. The whole issue is to what extent they’re able to supply this army of modern weapons and military hardware.”
Skabeyeva has earned the moniker of Putin’s “iron doll” and Russian media coverage of the war has been framed and censored so heavily that many Russians fail to believe the scale of loss to life and infrastructure in Ukraine.
He said that as much as Russia would hate to admit it, virtually the whole world is against them
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Skabeyeva insisted that it is just the West against Russia. To which Khodaryonok replied: “You will agree that this is not a normal situation.
“As for India and China, which you spoke about, their support for our country is not so unconditional.”
Khodaryonok’s scathing remarks come as the British Ministry of Defence estimated that Russia has likely lost “one third” of its ground forces.
NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also said this week that Ukraine could win the conflict.
At a meeting of foreign ministers, he said: “Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned.
“They failed to take Kyiv, they are pulling back from around Kharkiv, and their major offensive in Donbas has stalled. Russia is not achieving its strategic objectives.”
Khodaryonok reminded Russian viewers that “European aid will fully come into effect, so a million armed Ukrainian soldiers need to be viewed as a reality of the very near future.”
He surmised that the situation for Russians will “frankly get worse” and he warned that sooner or later the reality of history will hit Russians “so hard” that they will regret it.
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