You can only get out of the war by losing it in full on the territory of Ukraine, and then come to some kind of controlled electoral processes, transition processes in Russia. They must realize this. Otherwise, everything will end quite badly for them.
What kind of reservations are these then, when Dmitry Peskov is asked, and he calls the Russian Federation the “P” word, and Shoigu shrugs when asked about “victories”?
Shoigu does not have objective information. Today they use Igor Konashenkov instead. He periodically voices there that the invaders “destroyed”. By the way, at the Eastern Economic Forum there was a fantastic phrase that they destroyed 18 thousand units of military transport in 2 months.
Do you understand? Putin said this. Destroyed 18 thousand in two months! You understand that there are people sitting in the hall, except for completely specific subjects… They look at this and understand that this is complete nonsense.
Shoigu is the person who supplies such information. But in parallel, when he meets not with “parquet” generals, but with field generals, they tell him that there is a shortage of shells and reserves. They don’t have time to move because they don’t understand where the main attack of Ukraine is.
Shoigu is a bit of a primitive person. Says these propaganda narratives that everyone was “defeated and destroyed by all HIMARS.” But, on the other hand, somewhere subconsciously even shamans understand that the nature of war is still objective. And everything looks different, so here and there they say it in their hearts.
Regarding Peskov. There is no point in analyzing anything here at all. This is a person living in another reality. He simply formally comments on something and does not track ongoing processes. It definitely does not analyze these processes. But he simply lives like this: “I came out of some state, said something and entered this state.” I mean simply an altered state.
He is busy with his life. It seems to him that he will be able to “get by” when he has to bear responsibility for everything they did.
What weapons do the Armed Forces of Ukraine attack the occupiers in Crimea
The submarine “Rostov-on-Don” and the large landing ship “Minsk” were damaged in Crimea. Today in Yevpatoria the Russian Triumph air defense system was disabled. UAVs and Neptune missiles worked effectively on the target. Today Sky News wrote that Ukraine used “Storm Shadow” for yesterday's attack.
Sky News has its sources. And they can comment there, one way or another. We understand that everything we destroy in Crimea… For this we use Ukrainian equipment and weapons. But let's emphasize something else here.
Firstly, you see how effective these operations are. The Main Intelligence Directorate, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Air Force, the Naval Forces of Ukraine are doing an excellent job, and the General Staff is involved in planning. They clearly understand how to work on the Crimean peninsula.
This is the second Triumph destroyed. Its destruction means that you need to open the sky over the peninsula in order to more effectively attack military infrastructure: factories, bases, fuel and ammunition depots.
The tactics are clear and clearly followed. We, in fact, do not forget that it is necessary to interrupt the possibility of supply through the Crimean peninsula for the occupation group. This will be a very effective tool for waging war on the part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It scares Russia and brings material results – the destruction of specific volumes of equipment. This is a very important component.
Will this intensity increase? I think so. Because, after all, production of both drones and missiles is increasing. The President of Ukraine officially spoke about this.
Yes, it's not as fast as we would like. These are technologically complex processes. Also difficult from the point of view of working with partners. Because we need to purchase somewhere and build logistics. But all this is being done and will increase.
Regarding the large landing ship “Minsk”. This is very symbolic. There was “Moscow”, and now “Minsk”. Two ships with two strange names that are symbolic for us. For these two capitals decided on the maximum genocidal murder of Ukraine.
Therefore, the destruction of symbols is very important. This also psychologically affects both Russia and Belarus.
Let's still separate things when we talk about Belarus. I see quite positive examples of how the Belarusian opposition works today. She is increasingly active on international platforms. The Belarusian opposition is promoting the concept that Alexander Lukashenko should be fully recorded as a criminal who directly participated in the war and organized the genocide of children. This is a very important process.
Everything that we see in Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, and the partial control over the Black Sea that Ukraine is acquiring suggests that positive trends in the war both in offensive operations and in operations of a strategic plan to destroy the rear infrastructure of the Russians, they are proceeding very effectively.
It seems to me that these are good signals, including for our partners, regarding the need to significantly speed up resource assistance to Ukraine.
Read the second part of the interview with Mikhail Podolyak soon on the 24 Channel website.