Russian President Vladimir Putin has always described the actions of his troops in Ukraine as a “special military operation”. Those who have dared to call it “war” either “invasion” have been prosecuted under laws passed earlier this year to prevent discrediting the armed forces or spreading false news about them.
However, the successful counteroffensive that the kyiv troops are carrying out in the Kharkov region has a turning point. And after Putin has been called into question by politicians, military bloggers and oligarchs, criticism of the handling of the war has reached the Duma.
Who has broken the official line has been the leader of the Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, who has described the “military operation” as a “war” against the United States, Europe and NATO, according to the agency Reuters. He said this Tuesday at a meeting of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, after the Ukrainian forces have expelled the Kremlin soldiers from the northeastern part of the country.
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Likewise, Zyoganov has asked “the maximum mobilization of our strength and our resources“to win the war. This is a request that the Kremlin rejected this Tuesday, when it indicated that there were no active talks on a national mobilization to reinforce its forces in Ukraine, despiter of the increasing pressure to do so, according to Reuters.
“At the moment no, there is no discussion on this,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when asked for the second day in a row whether Russia would mobilize its reserves after being expelled from almost the entire Kharkov region.
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