Reported by Le Monde.
As the publication points out, it is a question of “La bataille d'Hajin: victoire tactique, défaite stratégique?”, Which the military man wrote for Revue défense nationale magazine.
For half a year, the military leader cooperated with the coalition during the hostilities against the terrorist group Islamic State * and, in particular, was unhappy with the progress and results of the operation to free the city of Khadzhin from militants.
As pointed out by RT France, he wrote in the material that during the operation, which lasted from September 2018 to January 2019, the actions of the coalition led to numerous destructions and casualties. In particular, the military destroyed hospitals, roads, bridges, mosques and residential buildings, but it fit into the American approach "without complications."
“We showed the locals a disgusting image of what a liberation after the Western model looks like, leaving behind them the“ seeds ”of a future revival of the new adversary,” he wrote.
The military also declared the “loss of freedom of action and control of the strategic pace” of the coalition due to cooperation with the “Strengths of Democratic Syria” (VTS).
As a result, the material of the colonel was removed by the chief editor.
It clarifies that, according to Le Monde, the soldier should have been sentenced on February 15, but the publication does not specify whether Legrade was punished as a result.
In April 2018, Sky News anchorwoman of the British television channel interrupted broadcasting with former retired British forces in Iraq, retired general Jonathan Shaw, when he began talking about the senselessness of the alleged chemical attack in the Duma for Syrian authorities.
* “Islamic State” (IG) - the organization is recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.