The Kremlin tries to distract criticism after the "shameful" Shoig's Photo shoot "on the forefront" - isw (video)

Military researchers tried to understand why Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoiga probably visited the positions of Russian troops, as reported by the Russian media without specifying where the official visited. It happened against the backdrop of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky's trip to the besieged city of Bakhmut this week.

According to analysts, the Kremlin believed that it was necessary to declare that the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu visited the front line in Ukraine for the second time in a week. This may have been done to take criticism that often sounds to Shoiga, who is called a false military manager. In the internal information space, the Ministry of Defense is now holding a defensive position.

The defense department does not have an "information initiative", so we have to respond to criticism against the backdrop of the failures of the Russian military in Ukraine. "In view of all, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation decided to show Shogu on the front line after the erroneous statements that he allegedly visited the front line on December 18, while in fact it was at the border of Crimea and the Kherson region for a photo shoot," - said military researchers.

According to analysts, the trip of Vladimir Zelensky to Bakhmut on December 20 put the Kremlin in an even more uncomfortable situation. It should be reminded that after the announced assistance package worth 1. 8 billion by the US Vlad of the Netherlands on Friday, December 23, announced plans to transfer EUR 2. 5 billion to Ukraine. Earlier, Focus reported that in the Russian Federation a contract soldier was sentenced to 5 years in prison for evasion.