Vladimir Putin’s former top military commander has slammed the Kremlin ruler’s failures in the war with Ukraine.
Hawkish Yuri Baluyevsky, former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and ex-deputy Defence Minister, claimed the dictator’s weakness is putting the country’s future in peril.
It was time for Putin to “start fighting for real,” he demanded as he broke ranks with the dictator.
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“Russiawas the first to develop hypersonic weapons,” Baluyevsky said in a speech to Russia’s public chamber.
“We went around shouting on every corner: ‘We have weapons that no country has — and won’t have any time soon.’”
He mocked Putin: “But that didn’t make our country any safer.”
Baluyevsky - a retired general of the army, now 79, who served as chief of the Russian general staff from 2004 to 2008 - accused Putin of failing to respond to specific Ukrainian attacks, one on the dictator’s Kremlin apartments in 2023, and the other on the country’s AWACS military planes.
“We talked about red lines in one of our speeches—but how much redder can those lines get?
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
