Pro-Russian bloggers and analysts have been cheerleaders for the Russian military for the past six months, almost never mentioning battlefield setbacks.
But after the recent Ukrainian counterattack and the subsequent Russian withdrawal from Kharkiv, they are now openly criticising war plans and calling on Moscow to be more transparent about the situation on the front lines.
Al Jazeera’s @Gabriel Elizondo reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Great news that the Russians are starting to question this war. I wish them well in finding the culprits and look forward to the process of justice to follow. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
If you pay careful attention to how the on-air commentators are phrasing their criticisms, it is very possible they were given instructions to do so. They are blaming everyone except Putin for this, and almost feeling sorry for him for getting such “bad advice.” Russian state TV people do not keep their jobs very long if they don’t do what they are told. This is the new propaganda shift to provide Putin scapegoats to blame when he eventually, inevitably, withdraws from this failed invasion.
Russian coward army
Even this criticism of the Russian army is orchestrated in itself to try and put the Ukrainian army and it’s allies at ease.
No, balls to put in.
I love it!!! TAKE THAT ORCS!!!! SLAVA UKRAINI!!! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Russia has been the cancer of the Earth for a very long time. They have a supremacy complex and culturally adhere to violence. Now even stevie wonder can see how hollow they are apart from their nukes.
The circus is going bankrupt 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 within months pootin and mar-a-lardo will share the same fate, an orange jumpsuit 👍👍👍👍
Special Washing Machine Operation? 🤔
How to fix things so Russia never would have been in a situation like this.
How about Russia never started a proxy war before 2014 and afterwords took Crimea in 2014.
And furthermore how about they never started to invade Ukraine.
SOVIET UNION STYLE COMMANDERS CANNOT CATCH UP WITH MODERN WARFARE.
THEY STILL BELIEVE IN TRENCH WARFARE.
THE BATTLE COULD WELL REACH MOSCOW.
PUTIN IS CONFUSED.
WEAPONS ARE NOT THE PROBLEMS FOR RUSSIA.
BUT THE RUSSIAN WHO ARE USING THESE WEAPONS HAVE NO BRAINPOWER TO HANDLE THE BATTLEFIELD.
CUBA USED RUSSIAN WEAPONS SO WELL TO LIBERATE MOST OF AFRICA.
THERE’S SOMETHING LONG WITH RUSSIANS TODAY.
THEY WILL FIND OUT FIRSTHAND WHEN THEY BECOME SLAVES.
Go check it out, No any detector that ever succeeded in the history of humanity,, even if putin succeed now is not going to last long.. Senseless war I don’t know who advice him
Hahaha, it’s to late now Igor. They’re coming to get you. 😅
Girkin the war criminal, responsible for the murder of 298 people on the MH17
A court will pass sentence on him after the end of the war.
Send Ukrainians everything they need to reclaim 2014 borders. Slava Ukraine ! with Love From Sweden
1991 borders
@Enigma death to the golden horde !
@Hybrid Army of Free World, Down with pootler! No death to all Elfs. Slava Mordor!
Send Ukrainians everything they need to reclaim 2014 borders. Slava Ukraine ! with Love From Sweden „Mосковская ордА это хаос разруха и рабство, хамы пьяницы и воры, и нечего не может,….“
The best thing the Kremlin could do now is to just retreat and count their losses.
The US spent trillions on the Iraq/Afghan war for 20 years and in the end they handed over the keys to the Taliban. Russia is suffering tremendously it’s time for a cease fire and an end to Russian aggression against the people of Ukraine.
winter is coming . . .
Gherkin shopping his stories realy gherkin you are a turkey not a gherkin
When I watch the Russian march through on Victory Day in Moscow, I thought the Russian military was invincible.
It looked so splendid, and with such sparkling, scary looking military equipment.
It just goes to show that appearances can be very deceptive.
Can’t wait to see the new Ukraine armored division newly formed. 😁😁
Zelensky: We launched a counter-offensive!
Putin: Fine. Here ya go. Have a medieval winter.!
Putin: here you go: another war crime.
There, fixed it for ya
Honestly this war is like the 80’s meets the 2020’s. That’s how it feels not only on a technological level, but also on a cultural level. Listening to Russian politicians and propaganda has exposed how far behind Russia truly is. It does not know how to behave in a modern world and refuses to learn from its Ukrainian neighbours.
Like they stayed in 1991
And here we go, the scapegoating has begun no doubt led by Putin’s propaganda machine. His “advisors” and going to blamed, arrested, jailed and killed. Mark my words.
The kremlin is Crumbling!
From what I’ve seen and heard, the Kremlin is Putin and Putin is the Kremlin. It’s a dictatorship. I saw an interview with Gorbachev before he died. He was clearly afraid of Putin.
Russia is really a bad joke. And it’s showing the whole world that no one should fear them. Nor respect them.
Igor Gerkin is a Oswald Mosley doppelgänger.
N Korea, Iran, india and china should stop prolonging war by supporting russia. They are fighting against west until last russian. Russia should accept neutrality.
Russia has spent 4 months firing millions of shells into Ukrainian fields turning them into a moon scape, the shells are widely spread and rarely do you see a Ukrainian vehicles damaged. Poor training and old exhausted artillery barrels cause this inaccuracy and are a result of corruption througout Russian military.
The Russian navy have run away and their airforce has retreated unable to gain complete air superiority.
Cruise missiles fired at flats, libraries, everything but rarely a military target of high value.
Now Russia is asking North Korea for shells, on ukraines national day they managed 11 missiles the world expected it to rain with them. After losing 5,000sq Km Russia managed 3 missiles to hit 11 fired.
This is it, Russia isn’t going to suddenly find more, better equipment or troops
Russia putin ni kill chese plan vestunnaru
For the record, Russian always win during winter …😅 The lesson is quite simple.
Those aren’t pundits, they’re war criminals
A court will pass sentences on them after the end of the war.
You just see the picture this side, now Russia need an excuse for full fledged war, and they will allow Ukrainian’s to their territory and then Boom. They did the same with Germany over Poland and they ended up in Berlin. If this time they punch Ukraine then I am not sure Ukraine will stand up again, as the losses will be higher. “Just mark my words” .
We’ve been “marking your words” since this conflict began.
You’re still losing.
that was a different war all together. and they were only able to do that because of supplies from the US and outright disregard for their own soldiers.
Without nuke the war still take long time coz support weapon and mercenaries from Nato, come on russia take nuke missile from stock pile and…lets drop nuke on kiev and other city considered as reality weapon test
First, they tried to take Kiev, and failed woefully, next was to focus on Donbass which they still haven’t achieve, even Crimea is being threatened by Ukraine, so I wonder what the definition of success is to the Russians
Lot of feckless people in Russia.
A lot of lies and propaganda!
Russia had no idea how high tech this war would be
Bullies are always cowards.
Music to our ears! The suffering you chose to cause is only fitting to return to you!
Russia is collapsing death to Russia from wadiya 🤣🖕🇷🇺🖕🇷🇺🖕🇷🇺🖕🇷🇺💩💩💩💩
Russia is huge and sparsely populated in the East. They had plenty of space to train everything that they were going to do in this war. They could have trained for every scenario. They could have invited the Chinese and Indians over and war gamed with their best commanders and improved everybody together. I know they’re doing it now but now is too late. They could have been doing that for years before this war started and built one of the best trained and best led militaries. Every weakness that was revealed during those exercises could have been corrected by the start of the war. Why didn’t this happen? Because I don’t think Putin anticipated going to war so soon, even if he wanted to see Russia reclaim its historical territories some day. Something unexpectedly happened to rush his plans. I think Putin is having health problems and wants to do something before he dies that would have given him a great legacy. He wanted to be remembered like Peter the Great or Stalin but he suddenly found himself with less time than he thought. It has to be that.
As an ordinary Canadian spectator the Russian army as a whole is not respected…It promises higher pay it does not, more often than not Russian dead are not a priority to bring back home, food water are sadly lacking and Russian commanders in the field appear to be sup par raising the anger of the troops. Guessing too that a good potion of the Russian army have friends and family in Ukraine. Plus Ukrainians are defending their country and fight better while Russia is the aggressor and wonder why they are killing civilians
MY GUESS he turned HOMOSEXUAL.
Who? Putin?
Putin can’t dismiss these clowns as “anti-Russian” or “pro-Western agents”, that is why he is in big trouble.
Lets just hope he doesn’t “accidentally” fall out of a window
These idiots made a big misunderstanding. They are not fighting against Ukraine. They are fighting against US and NATO intelligence. You lose 10/10 times.
Slava Ukraine!
Russians complaining they’ve been lied to ? Lol 🤣🤣🤣 this is too much.
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
Russia now realizes they weren’t fighting ukrain they were fighting America in a proxy war. Let’s see how they react. I wouldn’t click my heals in victory just yet. I’d be watching my back. Just saying
Let’s keep this going Ukraine
Aljazeera.. You need to really start talking the TRUTH.
Tell the Truth that there are 1/10 solders are Ukraine solders and the Rest 9/10 are U.S. and NATO solders.
U.S. and NATO is now fighting Russia.
SOON.. we will see Lot’s of Bodybags heading home.
Go Russia ❤
Love Russia ❤
Dude has an dull, clueless & lack of class look going.
what is the population of Russian propagandists in Russia?
Even the Russian nationalists should slowly realize that Russia will fail in this war.
You tricked people into going to the front without proper training and without any information. You are complete fools
He looks like he’s been crying. His eyes are all red
Where did Igor jerkoff get that shirt, they couldn’t guess his weight at the fair ?????
I’m puzzled as many of you. Mr Putin he took back Crimea in 2014 without losing a single Ukrainian or Russian soldier. That was brilliant. He helped Syrians, which was good. Look at Libya now after the NATO invasion and bombing. So the guy won in Georgia and pacified Chechnya after they attacked Dagestan. He’s not a dumb guy like G. W. Bush, so why he invaded with 200,000 troops a huge country is beyond me.
Egor can make a huge difference if he were to be sent to the frontline. 🤔
Yeh ex clown Zelensky outclassed exKGB spy Putin . Shame for Russia 😅
Now I am seriously confused who was who before 😅😅
It can be dangerous sometimes chasing after the imaginary enemy. Enemy by design with which to achieve one’s personal ambition. The whole world respect Russian army prior to this war but the 1945 equipment we now see Russian soldiers with is reflective of the high level of corruption going on in that regime. I want a modern powerful Russia where objective truth is not relative as an African. Russians are not even free in their own country because of one man who doesn’t want to hear the truth.
Yet Putin says that “Russia has lost nothing in Ukraine”…
f u c k r u s s i a
Why are they all saying that Ukranians are outnumbered? when Russia is fighting their 150 K troops against 700 K Ukranians troops for half a year.
USA EVIL
japan will retake the kurils sakhalin vladivostok south korea will take north korea.
This is encouraging. A necessary precondition to any type of real diplomacy, for Russia.
Russian military = A Barking Chihuahua
🕊🕊🕊
Ukraine will have an unlimited supply line
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Target Kaputin 💥
Participation is important, not winning 😂
RUSSIA 🇷🇺. WILL BE BACK. TRUEST GOD
Those are clowns 🤡 same as the Is Generals on Cnn and fox news
the russians dont even know why they are invading
Hilarious how they didn’t say this until now when even then de facto leader of Russian Donetsk, Igor Girkin was tearing into Putin.
Many of us saw that if Russia didn’t take Kyiv by mid-March, and all of Ukraine by May, Putin would either have to start fighting a more limited engagement (concentrated solely in Donbas-Luhansk) or otherwise call for peace talks.
Those people who convince President Putin to invade Ukraine must be held to account and must be punish.
Don’t give to much for the controlled opposition on Russian state TV. They are simply there to try and redirect the blame away from Putin and test the water for how different messures would be received by the public opinion. In this episode they implied two measure. Peace talks and mobilization. We know Russia doesn’t have the capacity to mobilize. All the personnel and equipment needed for preparing the past years conscripts are already in Ukraine. It would also be a massive blow to Russia’s already hurting economy. We’re talking about 2 million workers being sidelined for 3-6 months of preparation and the costs that entail as well as the losses of work force. It’s also a matter of question if there’s even equipment for them at this point. So the mobilization is most likely out of the picture. I seems to be more of an appease to silence the hawkish Russian nationalists by making it look like they consider it. The other measure was peace talks to see how the public opinion react to such a deal and weather it would make Putin appear as weak. Lavrov suggested just some days ago that there’s still room for diplomatic solution “but the window was closing”. Today there was a outcry about Ukraine having ambitions to join NATO still was a pressing threat for Russia, which suggest a security guarantee where Ukraine can’t join NATO for the foreseeable future would be a deal Russia could accept as some sort of ad hoc saving face goal of “demilitarization”. “Denazification” they can always claim they reached as they took down Azov battalion.
I hope they will erase the mistakes and rise like a phonix…🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺♥️♥️♥️♥️
Oh they were busy sparing civilians and that’s why their onslaught was not successful! Extraordinary! Falsification runs in their blood!
I just hope Putin doesn’t retaliate with a nuclear weapon God forbid glory to Ukraine..
Canada 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
“make easy work of the outnumbered Ukrainians”. The Ukrainians were never outnumbered. This is one of Girkin’s main complaints about the war plan. Russia never committed enough troops do do the job correctly. How do you post a story without facts?
SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦
It’s always the same with you no matter how things are going or what is being done it always means Russia bad Russia losing if all the Russian side people were agreeing with Putin you would just say they’re too scared to speak out whether to brainwashed in Russia losing and since they’re questioning him that must mean oh dear oh things are bad Russia must be losing it matter what you already have your conclusion in place amd you’ll just gonna alter your presentation to reach it.
They don’t know anything. They assumed the Russian army was unbeatable. They must know their country is corrupt. Well now they know what rampant corruption, with so many on the take, does to armed forces. Money meant for improvements was siphoned by many, to buy mega yachts and overpriced London properties. Combine that with ruling with fear. People too scared to speak up. To say, actually we have major problems, we can’t do this or we need to change this.
Then there’s lieing to the people, and worse, lieing to your soldiers. So, well done putin, you now run a third rate
country, that will take decades to recover
Girkin ! He certainly looks pickled
Girkin, Putin and all his supporters deserve to suffer the same pain and horror Russian soldiers have inflicted on Ukrainian civilians.
Girkin , uncle Adolf’s little nephew .
Russians for Nazism
Chernobyl killed the USSR and now this wat will kill Putin’s government.
Igor Gerkin most wanted by Ukrainian. He initially formed Donetsk People’s Militia.
Military setbacks? Are you sure?
Classic Clausewitz, destroy the enemy’s army, don’t fight what you can’t win and bleed the enemy in the process. If the offensive was such a tremendous success then why the Ukrainians need to go cap in hand and request military hardware from Germany again ? Where’s the Himars, M777s, Polish T72s pray tell?
*Loving watching Putin lose after poisoning my land TWICE TO KILL TWO OF HIS OWN!* 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸☮️🇳🇿🇨🇦🇦🇺🇺🇦🏴🏴♥️🇬🇧
All that corruption and inability to modernize has come nack to bite them
good time to be a window repair man in russia