former Russian commander of the Russian 58th Army, Lieutenant General Andrei Gurulev, who has been a deputy of the State Duma from United Russia since last year, criticized the Russian General Staff after Ramzan Kadyrov, writes BBC.
On the air of the Tok show “Solovyov Live”, he said that he could not explain the surrender of the estuary from the point of view of the military, and called the retreat of the Russian troops from this city with a significant military and political line.
“This was not a fleeting battle, – Gurulev said.” It is not clear to me why they did not evaluate the situation for all the time, they did not strengthen the group. ” According to the military, “the problem is in the general lies, a report of a good environment”: “This system goes from top to bottom.”
“The problem … on the Frunze embankment, where they still do not understand, do not own the situation, – Gurulev said.” We need our own Kvashnin (head of the General Staff of the Russian Federation from 1997 to 2004 – approx. BBC), which gave commands he wrote to the directive, went to the trench to the soldier to watch his task performed. Therefore, we completed the second Chechen campaign successfully. Until something completely different appears in the General Staff, nothing will change. Everything else is a consequence of the policy pursued from there. ”
BBC notes that if the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov assigned the responsibility for the retreat of the Russian troops from the estuary to the commander of the Central Military District of Alexander Lapin, then Lieutenant General Gurulev believes that the problem is not in Lapina, but in the current head of the General Staff Valeria Gerasimov.
Supported Kadyrov and the St. Petersburg businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, who recently ceased to hide what exactly was behind the activities of the Wagner PMC.
“Kadyrov’s expressive statement, of course, is not at all in my style. But I can say:” Ramzan, handsome, burn. “All these earlings – with BOSHING ATS to the front,” his press service published such a commentary.