Gradually against the environment Insert her hands turn Moscow. The closest associates of the President of Russia unite against the military leadership. Even the most ardent supporters of the invasion of Ukraine they are very critical.

Yesterday Kirill Stremouzov, deputy governor of the Russian-occupied district Peninsula, criticized Russian Defense Minister and close associate of Putin Sergei Shoigu, urging him to commit suicide. “Many say that as an officer, the Secretary of Defense should commit suicide because he brought the situation to the state it is now. The Ministry of Defense consists not only of ministers, generals, corrupt and scum, but also of heroes who defend Russia, ”he said characteristically.

But he’s not the only one. Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, accused the Defense Ministry of hushing up adverse events at the front. “They need to stop lying. The world is far from stupid. He understands that he is not taken seriously. It is not considered necessary to tell him not the whole truth, but not even part of it.

According to insiders, the war is raging among the Russian elite and is now breaking out to the surface. While no prominent proponents of the Russian invasion attacking the military have so far aimed their arrows at Putin, Russian political analysts warn that this will change if the Russian military continues to suffer defeat. “For the first time we see personal attacks in regime circles. This is a dangerous situation for Putin because no one can control it.”

In another incident, the Russian military carried out a deadly attack on her city yesterday. Zaporozhyestill controlled by Ukrainian forces, and the capital of the province of the same name, adding yet another link to the long chain of paradoxes of this war.

Explosions from rocket attacks shook the city, located near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, around 5 am, when most people were still asleep. One of the rockets hit a five-story apartment complex, killing at least three people and injuring dozens. Firefighters pulled the survivors out of the rubble, and the search for survivors continued into the evening.

The deputy governor who installed the Kremlin in Kherson called on Shoigu to commit suicide!

The attack on Zaporozhye, like other similar attacks of recent days, reinforces the impression that the Russian army, having suffered heavy attacks on the rear of the enemy, hitting military facilities, civilian infrastructure and even residential areas of densely populated cities. Attacks of kamikaze drones have occurred over the past day in the Kyiv region.

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi is expected to arrive in Zaporozhye in the coming hours or days to inspect the nuclear plant, which was seized by the Russian military after Putin’s order to place it under the control of Russian authorities. Then Grossi will go successively to Kyiv and Moscow, seeking guarantees for the safety of the plant. Ukraine views Putin’s order as an act of international piracy without retribution, and the state-owned nuclear company Energoatom has said it will continue to operate the plant at its own risk.

In a nightly message to compatriots, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that his troops were continuing their offensive along the western bank of the Dnieper towards Kherson, capturing additional settlements.

In Moscow, a Kremlin spokesman disputed Russian media reports that some 700,000 draft-age Russians have fled abroad (mostly to Kazakhstan, Georgia and Mongolia, countries Russia shares borders with) to avoid mobilization since September 21, when Vladimir Putin signed a decree to mobilize 300,000 reservists. “I don’t think anyone can take these numbers seriously,” Dmitry Peskov said, arguing that the real numbers (which he couldn’t elaborate on) are much lower.

For her part, Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, tried to allay the fears raised by the international community about the Russian president’s recent statements about the possibility of using nuclear weapons. Russia remains “fully committed” to the principle of non-nuclear war, Zakharova said in response to a related question. In other statements, she called it “incredible” that neither the Russian state nor the energy giant Gazprom were invited to participate in the Swedish and Danish investigations into recent mysterious leaks from Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic.