July 15 () –
The British Ministry of Defense believes that the recent dismissal of Russian General Ivan Popov for expressing, according to the official himself in a leaked video, his misgivings about the strategy of the Russian military leadership, is indicative of a broader rejection of the decisions of the high Russian echelons on the strategy in Ukraine.
In the video, Popov, head of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces, sends a harsh message to the military leaders of the Ministry of Defense, whom he accuses of “attacking from behind” their own troops, “beheading against the Army at its most difficult and intense moment”, according to the evaluation published this Saturday by the British Ministry of Defense on its Twitter account.
For London, Popov’s comments reflect “the serious detachment that many officers harbor towards the military leadership”, since they reproduce those already manifested in his day by the mercenary leader Yevgeni Prigozhin before his brief rebellion last month.
For this reason, British Military Intelligence believes that, in the coming weeks and months, both the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, and the Chief of the General Staff, General Valeri Gerasimov, will face a growing problem: criticism. directly from their own subordinates.
