The Victory Parade in Moscow, contrary to expectations, has not brought significant changes around the conflict in Ukraine.
Earlier, a number of experts and even officials stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his speech at the parade, will announce mobilization in Russia, which officially recognizes the beginning of a full -scale war against Ukraine. Until now, the Kremlin is refuted by the fact of war against once fraternal Ukraine, calling it a special operation.
Other experts even predicted, if not nuclear, then at least a massive blow to the “decision center in Kyiv”. But not one of the negative scripts was confirmed. Vladimir Putin from the rostrum of the parade did not speak at all about the upcoming nuclear war, but the prevention of a global war. The owner of the Kremlin did not declare mobilization or official war to Ukraine, although he had never used the expression “special military operation”.
However, May 9 was relatively calm on the fronts of the war. The Russian army did not take any emergency offensive measures. Yes, there were attempts to attack the village of Voevodovka, the capture of which would open the way to the cities of Liman and Severodonetsk in the Donbass. But these attacks were successfully repulsed by the Ukrainian army. Russian missile forces were marked by blows to Odessa, where the head of the European Council Charles Michelle arrived today.
The fact of the absence of the head of the General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov at the parade of the head of the General Staff of Russia was much more attention today. The Victory Parade without the head of the General Staff is really strange. The absence of Gerasimov launched a lot of rumors on the Internet that the military leader was really seriously wounded during a missile blow under the raisins.
However, the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexei Anthilovich calls not to believe such rumors. Arrestovich initially denied Gerasimov’s wound under Izum, confirming the fact that the Ukrainian army destroyed dozens of high -ranking officers there.
The absence of the head of the General Staff of Russia at the Parade in Moscow, Prisnutovich explains the usual opals.
“It was Gerasimov who was supposed to be the person who would dissuade Putin from the invasion of Ukraine. He knew that this company was doomed to fail, but did not dare to say about this Putin. He did not have the courage to tell the president that the Russian army was not Ready, ”said Arrestovich in an interview with human rights activist Mark Feigin.
It is worth noting that Gerasimov last publicly appeared on May 4 at a meeting, where military parades were discussed on May 9.
Military expert Oleg Zhdanov, citing his sources, claims that Gerasimov was removed from the command of the military operation in Ukraine.