The Russian Defense Ministry reported that Sergei Shoigu visited the temporarily occupied Mariupol. So the Russian Minister of Defense copies the Ukrainian military-political command.
Yes, Ivan Stupak, a former employee of the SBU and an expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, said in a commentary on Channel 24 . According to him, as soon as President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited the front line, Vladimir Putin left for the shooting range.
“Putin immediately arrived at the shooting range, got married with the guys, hugged. That is, he immediately shows that“ I am also in the subject and understand everything, ”said Stupak.
Who forced Sergei Shoigu to visit the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine: watch the video
Shoigu forced to visit Ukraine
According to a former SBU officer, the visits to Bakhmut by the commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky also influenced the Russians. He suggests that Shoigu did not independently decide to go to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
They called him from the Kremlin and said: “Comrade General, let's take us to the front too, show that you are present. Sending your deputies or Gerasimov is not enough. You need to go.” And so he left, – summed up Ivan Stupak.
Sergei Shoigu's visit to the occupied territories: latest news
- The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Shoigu visited the temporarily occupied Mariupol. As it turned out, the Russian Defense Minister visited the occupied city on March 3, but the Russian media reported on the visit only on March 6.
- Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, confirmed that Sergei Shoigu visited Mariupol on March 3. A helicopter of the minister of defense of the aggressor country was spotted in the sky.
- According to international journalist Aleksey Burlakov, Russian “military correspondents” have already begun to look for a certain catch in the visit of the Russian Defense Minister to the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region. Among the versions is that Shoigu does not trust the chief of the general staff and commander of the Russians Valery Gerasimov and some generals in this direction. Like, some of them may support the leader of the PKK “Wagner” Prigogine.
- British intelligence suggests that Sergei Shoigu's trip to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine was a response to Yevgeny Prigozhin.
