The fierce personal attacks unleashed publicly by Prighozin against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff who is now the overall operational commander of the war, exposed what the Russian president refused to admit: His war is flagging, and key players in the Kremlin’s orbit are now at each other’s throats.
We are urged at every turn to dismiss everything Vladimir Putin says as upside down to the truth. Those of us who keep our heads, while all about us others are losing theirs and blaming it on us, risk dismissal when we take the Russian president seriously.Never mind.
As the U.S. midterm elections approach, the gap between Western media's depiction of the war in Ukraine and the actual war waged on the ground appears to be widening more dramatically.
By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News
We are urged at every turn to dismiss everything Vladimir
Russia has nearly destroyed a third of Ukraine’s power stations in the last week, President Volodymyr Zilenskiy stated on Tuesday (18 October). Moscow rained further missiles on infrastructure in what Kyiv called a campaign to intimidate civilians. Three people were killed when missiles hit power stations in Kyiv s capital. One person was killed when his […]