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When a military campaign goes wrong, the cracks show far beyond the front lines.
Leaders often try to project confidence, but frustration can quickly surface when citizens begin to feel the pressure. Now, a fresh wave of criticism has erupted within a major global power, reports The Express.
Growing frustration
The cracks are widening. According to reports from The Express, military analysts and political insiders are warning that the latest offensive has failed completely.
Retired US General Jack Keane spoke of a dramatic turnaround in the fighting. “Russia has started its spring and summer offensive and it has failed – miserably,” Keane stated.
Keane, who currently chairs the Institute for the Study of War, noted that the core battlefield dynamics have suddenly flipped. “They are losing more territory than they have the ability to take. And that means that Ukraine is on the offensive and is retaking territory,” he added.
Serious warnings
Aleksey Chadaev, a former Kremlin adviser, similarly cautioned that the current path could lead to “a full-scale defeat” without a ceasefire.
Internal critics are venting their fury online. War correspondent Anastasia Kashevarova complained bitterly about catastrophic air defense failures after deep drone strikes hit oil refineries and major cities.
“The enemy is hitting everything that moves on the roads,” Kashevarova wrote, adding, “Ukraine’s policy is: the more Russians die, the better.”
Anger boiling over
The journalist expressed total bewilderment at the lack of military response. “Forgive me, but I am, like most Russians, to put it mildly, bewildered by what is happening. Men, my dears, what are you doing? Are you going to fight? Where are our ‘systematic and consistent’ strikes?” she asked.
She warned that domestic arrests or internet blackouts will not stop incoming drones. “Of course, you can shut us all up, imprison us,” she taunted.
“Blocking the internet will not solve the issue of the growing swarm of drones flying deep into the rear,” she argued.
Elevated defenses
“The enemy will continue to kill us. There is no longer any need to open the internet to know that something has hit somewhere,” she concluded.
To protect the capital from incoming strikes, military teams used a helicopter to drop a heavy missile defense system directly onto the roof of a luxury tower block in a wealthy Moscow neighborhood.
Meanwhile, strikes on a Crimean oil depot caused major blazes and forced immediate petrol rationing. The Express reported that the Russian leadership still refuses to hold peace talks, even as European heads of state gather in London.
Sources: The Express
