First cracks in the hard core of the Kremlin

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A Russian officer stationed at the Nicolayev front called a comrade-in-arms deployed at another front two days ago using his personal phone.

The call was intercepted by the Ukrainians, who took the time to post the audio on their social networks for the duration of the editing operation.

The summary of this Russian officer's complaints is: "This is worse than Chechnya.

. We cannot evacuate the dead and our own planes have bombed us."

We do not know if it is the general feeling of the troop, but there are more and more complaints about the poor performance in the range of primary objectives, the huge casualties and the

According to the figure leaked on the website of Russia's second best-selling newspaper, and erased shortly after,

.

Some numbers that the US Intelligence does not dare to confirm due to lack of data but that it sees as plausible.

Many of those soldiers are beginning to come home to be buried by their families, undermining Russian public opinion in favor of the war.

There are six generals already shot down by the Ukrainians, who added to 17 colonels, turn what is going on into a bloody and ruinous invasion.

In the military establishment they are beginning to blame the person in charge, who is none other than their commander-in-chief, the one who leads the war from his office: Vladimir Putin.

But not only in the military field is a certain anxiety beginning to be detected: also in politics.

, the Kremlin's special envoy, resigned and left the country.

The reason: his opposition to the war in Ukraine, according to media such as Bloomberg, citing two people familiar with the situation.

Chubais is not just anyone: he was deputy prime minister and under Putin's mandate he assumed the main positions in large state companies, as well as being part of his circle of Praetorians.

"It's true. Anatoli Borisovich is leaving his post," said a source close to the former Russian finance minister and deputy prime minister.

Another source warned that Chubais has left Russia.

"He has resigned and gone," he said.

Two other sources who know Chubais told

.

Kira Yarmish, a spokesperson for dissident Alexei Navalny, tweeted that Chubais "left Russia only out of fear for his own skin and his own money."

Chubais' shock comes after last week

(or unhappy with its consequences), saying he would cleanse Russia of "scum and traitors", whom he accuses of work for the United States and its allies.

That same day,

, initially without a return ticket.

Chubais is a controversial figure within the Kremlin.

He is known as the architect of Russia's privatizations in the 1990s and was Boris Yeltsin's economic right-hand man for years.

mid-1990s.

And he supported his rise to power at the end of that same decade.

But he is hated by many Russians for the convulsions of capitalist shock therapy from those years of corruption.

He belongs to the decimated circle of liberals who in 2014, with the seizure of Crimea and Donbas, were definitively sidelined in favor of the

(the executors) the other side around Putin, the people from the army and the security services.

The victors surrounding Putin today.

But he is not the only one who no longer appears in the photos.

Many analysts point out that Defense Minister

has not been seen in public since March 11, when he presented a medal to one of the soldiers.

The truth is that he has hardly been seen since this war began.

, his right-hand man and chief of the Russian General Staff, is also missing from the cameras and European military sources consider him removed from his post, although not dismissed.

Sergei Shoigu did not even attend the meeting with Putin on February 27 in which he was ordered to put nuclear weapons on high alert.

Shoigu, a personal friend of Putin, is part of his inner circle.

At the last televised meeting two days before the war, he, too, looked uncomfortable, as did the spymaster.

“Everything is going according to plan, but the two FSB generals who were supposed to organize the anti-Maidan in Kiev are, according to researchers like

, under arrest. And Shoigu has disappeared from the screens. the plan", denounces the Russian journalist

.

Western intelligence sources report the tendency of the Russian forces to try to win the favor (and medals) of Putin and act seeking their own protagonism, forgetting any coordination on the battlefield.

That is why the tanks advance without infantry, the air force does not support the advances by land, and the Russian ships expect an offensive from the east of Odessa that never seems to arrive to support their own landing.

In the military field,

, still in Ukrainian hands, like Nicolayev, Irpin, Bucha, Kharkov... And Kiev after 29 days.

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