Russian milbloggers circulated a letter condemning an offensive in Pavlika, in the Donetsk region this month.
The Russian defense ministry has issued a rare rebuttal of criticism by pro-Kremlin military bloggers that blamed poor army leadership for throwing Russian troops into a recent ill-fated offensive.
The milbloggers have been giving an unvarnished view about battlefield failures on their Telegram social media accounts, in contrast to the Kremlin-approved messaging on Russian state television. One of them, called the Gray Zone, shared a missive it said was from members of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet., southwest of Donetsk on November 2.
It blamed Eastern Military District Commander Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, 155th Naval Infantry Brigade Commander Colonel Zurab Akhmedov, and Russian Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov for the action. Russian soldiers released in a prisoner swap are seen in the Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine in this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on November 4, 2022. The Russian defense ministry has issued a rare rebuttal of criticism by pro-Kremlin military bloggers taking aim at poor army leadership.
"They don't care about anything apart from showing off," it said, adding that to the military commanders in question, soldiers are just"cannon fodder."The Russian Ministry of Defense on Monday rejected the letter's claims. It said that not even one percent of the brigade had been killed and fewer than seven percent wounded over the previous 10 days. It said that it was Ukraine which had suffered high losses instead, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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