After the great losses suffered by the Russian forces recently, he said: Former Member of the Russian Parliament, Boris NadezhdinIt is impossible for Russia to defeat Ukraine, and he called for peace talks between the two sides, in a very frank criticism on state television of President Vladimir Putin’s strategy in Ukraine.
Nadezhdin’s comments, in a clip viewed more than 3.2 million times, are the latest sign of unease among pro-Kremlin critics on Russian state television, as the Ukrainian counterattack has made unexpectedly big gains.
Life comes at you fast: pundits on Russian TV realize that their military is failing and their country is in trouble. They are starting to play the blame game. Some of them finally understand that their genocidal denial of the Ukrainian identity isn’t working in Russia’s favor. pic.twitter.com/jNNn5xifI5
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Nadezhdin’s comments sparked debate about how Russia would respond, which included strengthening or withdrawing its military forces in Ukraine and ending the war.
“The people who convinced President Putin that the special operation will be quick and effective, that we will not hit the civilian population and that we will come and our national guard, along with the Kadrivit (Chechen fighters) and restore things there are the same ones who put us all in this predicament,” Nadezhdin added.
“The president didn’t just sit there and think, why don’t I start a special operation, there are those who told him that the Ukrainians would surrender, that they would want to join Russia,” he added.
“Someone had to tell him all this. They also said the same thing on TV… We are now at a point where we have to understand that it is absolutely impossible to defeat Ukraine using those resources and colonial warfare methods that Russia is trying to use by waging a war using Contract soldiers and mercenaries without mobilization. “There is a strong army that is resisting the Russian army, with the full support of the most powerful countries, in the economic and technological sense, including European countries,” he warned.
The TV presenter asked if Nadezhdin was proposing Russia to fully mobilize against Ukraine, but Nadezhdin insisted he wanted the opposite. “We should start peace talks, I suggest peace talks about stopping the war and moving forward to deal with political issues.”
And in recent weeks, as Ukraine launched its counter-attack against Russian-controlled areas, some Russian TV journalists have criticized the war, opening rifts in previously strong support and confidence in Putin’s strategy that was expressed on state television.
TV presenter Ivan Troshkin said at the beginning of September that the help Ukraine was getting from the West could prevent Moscow from achieving a “complete victory”.
Troshkin said the Ukrainian war effort was taking place “either with the approval of the United States or even orchestrated by someone there.” “As long as there are outside forces willing to send people and give them weapons and fill their heads with extremist information, it seems to me, unfortunately, that we will not be able to achieve a complete victory,” he added.