Former Field commander of the DPR Igor Strelkov (Girkin), who harshly criticizes the Russian authorities and the military command in the failures of the Russian army in Ukraine, summed up the results of 2022 in his telegram channel and gave a forecast for the next 2023.
Among the main “achievements” of the outgoing year, he called the geopolitical defeat of Russia and the failure of the “special operation”, which was planned “as an easy trip to the zipuna” with a change in political power in Kyiv. Girkin accused the head of the Russian state Vladimir Putin of the failures of the Russian army and the military leadership of the Russian Federation.
“Shoigu failed his, turned our army into a ceremonial -external institution for holding fireworks and holidays …”, Girkin said.
Predicting the events of the coming year, he said that Russia will not only remove from Ukraine, but also lose its own territories. “And the Kuban will be occupied, and Sochi will be occupied, and the Crimea will be occupied. And not only. Everything that will be” delicious “by the respected Western and not only partners, everything will be occupied,” Girkin said.