LONDON (Reuters) – Russian nationalists angrily urged President Vladimir Putin on Sunday to make immediate changes to secure victory in Ukraine’s war, a day after Moscow was forced to abandon its main stronghold in northeast Ukraine.
As Russian forces abandoned city by city on Saturday, Putin inaugurated Europe’s largest Ferris wheel in a Moscow park as fireworks lit up the sky over Red Square to celebrate the city’s founding in 1147.
In an 11-minute voicemail posted on the messaging app Telegram, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a Putin ally whose troops are campaigning in Ukraine, ruled out the loss of Izium, a key supply hub. But he admitted the campaign was not going as planned.
“If today or tomorrow no changes are made in the conduct of the special military operation, I will be forced to go to the leadership of the country to explain the situation,” Kadyrov said.
Moscow’s near-total silence on the defeat — or any explanation for what happened in northeastern Ukraine — has sparked significant anger among some pro-war commentators and Russian nationalists on social media.
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