Putin prepares the Russians for a long war against Ukraine - NYT
Journalists remind that Vladimir Putin in his New Year's address to the people, which was recorded against the background of people in shape, said that Russia should only go forward and the country should "do a lot". Such rhetoric, according to NYT, indicates that the Kremlin prepares the Russians for a long war against Ukraine. In addition, Vladimir Putin abandoned his former attempts to protect the population from a number of failures at the front.
The assumption of journalists is also evidenced by the fact that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation relatively quickly recognized the destruction of its base in occupied Makeevka and the death of almost 100 servicemen, including topofiter. "The Kremlin seeks to become more transparently within the country than it was in the first months of the war. Most of 2022 Putin demonstrated confidence, allowing life within Russia to go on its turn.
His dialogue with the public was simple: leave politics and fighting to us and you You will not feel much pain from our justified "its" in Ukraine. It all ended in September, when the counter -offensive of Ukraine stunned the Kremlin, and Putin ordered partial mobilization. Now Putin doubles his efforts to further involve Russian society in hostilities, " edition. The annual New Year's greeting usually consists of apolitical banalities.
This time, according to journalists, the Kremlin Putin head made his story about an event that allegedly seeks to destroy Russia. The US officials, as reminiscent of the publication, recognize that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are studying their mistakes on the battlefield, trying to improve the defense line and throw their reserve forces to the front.
"Putin seems to focus again on the internal front: he simultaneously prevents possible dissatisfaction with the serious consequences of the war and tries to mobilize Russians to more actively support it. In the Russian Federation, rumors are widespread in the Russian Federation that Putin will soon give an order for a new military call. The front is more people, ”the journalists added, commenting on a new Kremlin head strategy.
It should be noted that on the eve of the New Year, The Washington Post wrote about a split inside Russian elites, which were concerned about a number of military failures of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. According to journalists, due to the inability to seize a neighboring country, President Vladimir Putin began to lose support among his topsoratists.