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Several milbloggers also suggested that Dyumin's appointment means that Putin seeks to find out why and how he was deceived about the real situation in Kursk Oblast, and many speculated that Dyumin's report will determine the fate of several high-ranking Russian officials and commanders,
Several Kremlin-affiliated milbloggers claimed that Dyumin's appointment was a sign that 'Putin's team' was taking full control over the situation in Kursk Oblast after Russian security forces failed to resolve the situation without Moscow's direct intervention over the past week,
We have no involvement. We'll continue to have conversations with the Ukrainians about their approach, but it is really for them to speak to,
Never ask how sausages or politics are made.
as Germany’s greatest diplomat Bismarck remarked when he said Dyumin is Putin's man. He will not allow the President to be deceived in reports to himself or others
wrote state media military correspondent Alexander Sladkov on Tuesday Indeed, Aleksey Gennadyevich Dyumin was summoned yesterday and tasked with supervising the counterterrorist operation,
Dyumin's alleged appointment sparked widespread speculation among Russian mil bloggers and political commentators about Putin's disappointment in Russian security agencies and speculations about an upcoming military-political reshuffling,
wrote the Washington-based think tank Institute for the Study of War With more and more respected voices warning of a wider conflict in Europe it’s deeply concerning the West is not doing enough to put the Ukraine fire out."
Asked about Ukraine's recent advance into the Russian border region of Kursk, the Lieutenant Colonel and former MP for Bournemouth East, told this website We seriously need to rekindle our Cold War statecraft skills to be able to look Putin in the eye and stand up to him – conscious of the escalatory ladder. If we don’t a wider conflict in Europe is inevitable."
On the question of whether the surprise incursion into Russia by President Volodymyr Zelensky's forces ramps up the overall danger of the conflict escalating, Mr Ellwood added The latest data, not confirmed, says they've taken as much as 750 square kilometres and may have gone as far as 35 kilometres from the border."
However, former US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst, now a senior director at the Atlantic Council told USA Today One of the justifications that he routinely uses for the invasion of Ukraine is the security of the Russian state. The fact that Ukraine has launched this incursion into Russian territory, I think, is absolutely humiliating for him,
There is nothing. It’s as if everyone has flown to another planet, and you are left alone. And the birds stopped singing,
an elderly man called Mikhail told Russian state television from one evacuated area Tuesday Certainly, it’s harder now for Putin to project the image of a Teflon president,
said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow with the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House, a London-based think tank He is upset that something like this could have happened,
said Callum Fraser, a research fellow in Russian and Eurasian security at the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, a London-based think tank You can tell that he is absolutely terrified of the fact that Ukraine has made gains,
What he does next, of course, will depend on how the situation on the ground progresses,
My sources have confirmed this information in advance. Indeed, Dyumin was invited to a meeting [with Putin] yesterday, and he was instructed to oversee the conduct of the counterterrorist operation. But the main task is to defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces that have invaded the territory of the Kursk region,
Nikolay Ivanov, a Russian State Duma deputy from the Kursk region, told RTVI on Tuesday Alexei Dyumin’s appointment as a senior official with comprehensive powers to address the operational crisis in the Kursk region indicates that the security forces were unable to resolve coordination issues independently, without Moscow's intervention,
The loss of territory and evacuation of civilians will play poorly back in Russia as evidence they 'can't defend themselves'."
Speaking to Sky News, the expert said And now we can see what the end for him is. And it is also Kursk. The disaster of his war,