During the planned on Wednesday, December 21, meetings of the College of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Kremlin, apparently, will continue to try to submit to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and its defense department “as effective leaders of the war in Ukraine,” writes the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) In his next report.
According to experts, Putin will probably hold a more ambitious meeting of the College of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, “to represent the Russian army as organized and formidable combat power and demonstrate that its control over this force remains unconditional, despite the obvious military failures during the invasion of Ukraine. “
ISW added that the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu will probably make the main report on the war in Ukraine, “which minimizes the responsibility of the Russian MO for failures at the front and offer an optimistic forecast regarding what Russian forces will be able to achieve in the operational plan in Ukraine in 2023 “.