There are many rumors of widespread dissatisfaction within the Russian armed forces with Vladimir Putin’s work in waging the war in Ukraine, and now there’s audio to confirm the rumors that have been chasing each other for weeks. Maxim Vlasov and Vitaly Kovtun, Moscow army colonels, were intercepted by the Kiev secret services while attempting to insult the Russian President and Sergei Shoigu, Defense Minister and very loyal to the “Tsar”.
Military Kovtun, as published by Radio Svoboda, is harsh on his colleague, specifically pointing the finger at a failed attack on Ukraine’s parliament: “They had to fire a damn missile at the Verkhovna Rada of Kyiv. Why didn’t they? Why not? I do not understand! Why didn’t they? – the Colonel insisted -. Meet Kyiv, meet the city center, the Supreme Rada buildings and the Government Palace. Probably no one matters there, but the building will be destroyed and everyone will see it. They destroyed the cruiser, so why not hit them in revenge? “. The latter part of this outburst makes it clear that this is a conversation that was certainly recorded after April 14, the day Neptune missiles sank the cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea, but the date is not certain.
The secret service in the service of Volodymyr Zelenskyy also made known the audio fragment in which Shoigu attacks himself: “He is – in Vlasov’s words – a completely incompetent layman, he is simply a showman, a recommended one”. Kovtun replies to his friend: “Shoigu just sucks. There are not enough contract soldiers and it is obvious where to recruit them if they are paid only 30,000 rubles a month? “. A value of less than 400 euros per month. To anger the two military friends are the heavy Russian losses in Ukraine and the tone does nothing but create further communication embarrassment in the Kremlin.
