According to one blogger, the authorities view the criticism as a personal attack instead of thinking about ways to improve the soldiers’ conditions.
Roni Kuronen,
Katriina Töyrylä
Russian war bloggers criticized the country’s Ministry of Defense for abandoning troops in the Kherson region. According to the news channel CNN several bloggers following the war report that the Russian troops in the area are suffering from a major shortage of artillery and ammunition.
Among other things Roman Saponkov The blogger named says that the troops fighting in Kherson told him personally about the lack of resources.
– The brigade commander sends our boys into battle without artillery support or airplanes. Boys are being killed in droves, Saponkov writes according to CNN.
Another Russian blogger writes that Russia’s 205th brigade is suffering from an alarming crisis in Kherson.
– to Yevgeny Prigozhin after the related disaster, we hoped that we would finally see changes. Now, three months later, we notice that nothing has still happened, the blog writes, referring to Director Wagner’s repeated revelations about the shortage of ammunition and criticism of the Ministry of Defense.
According to war bloggers, troops of Russia’s 205th Brigade were recently ordered to occupy the islands along the Dnieper River, but they said they have no ammunition, ammunition, artillery or reconnaissance units.
“Two camps”
Also a US think tank The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says war bloggers fed up with the insufficient actions of the Russian Ministry of Defense to ease the situation in the Kherson region.
According to ISW, the indifference of the Ministry of Defense has caused the usually very nationalistic war bloggers to split into two camps. According to the think tank, some bloggers have begun to openly oppose the Ministry of Defense.
According to a blogger writing on Telegram he deliberately leaves 90 percent of Russia’s failures unreported. According to him, the Russian authorities regard even limited criticism as a personal attack on them, instead of thinking about how to improve the conditions of the soldiers.
Russia has moved troops From Kherson to other fronts after the Kahovka dam broke in June.