While Ukrainian specialists and field observers speak of the Russian president’s “logistical failure”. Wladimir Putin and his troops, for the former general Fabio Mini it’s all wrong, it’s the “narrative supplied by Ukraine, but orchestrated and prepared from outside.” And so the former military man, who often sympathizes with the tsar and his moves, says in the Fatto Quotidiano: “The military columns are Russians progressed as planned. The goal is not to capture the capital, but to control the East. Moscow aims to root out the nationalist military bands, which have a strong presence in the Ukrainian army.”
According to Mini, as also pointed out by Il Foglio, Putins in Ukraine is nothing but one triumphal march. On the failure of the tsar’s twin goals of capturing the capital Kyiv and killing President Zelenskyy, Mini explains that these were not the Russian leader’s real plans: Eliminate Zelensky. “The tsar even wants Zelenskyy to remain in his place:”Russia is trying to keep him in power to urge him to negotiate by surrounding Kyiv.
Il Foglio then stresses that the former general who also held important roles in NATO cites the source of his theories “a Philoputinian conspiracy theorist”: It’s about Jacques Baud, former Swiss secret service colonel. “The problem is that Baud is a wellknown mystifier and manipulator who has been promoting conspiracy theories and proPutin narratives for some time,” writes Luciano Capone in the newspaper. Suffice it to say that Baud, for example, does not believe at all that dissident Alexei Navalny was poisoned. For this reason, too, the French site Conspiracy Watch, which deals with the refutation of conspiracy theories, defined it: “multiplier of lies”.
