Kremlin spokeswoman Maria Zakharova hinted at a misunderstanding within the Kremlin, saying that even leaders in Moscow cannot agree on how to present Russia’s war in Ukraine, Business Insider reports.

“There is a struggle, including among the elites [din Rusia]Zakharova stated this at a conference organized by tech entrepreneur Igor Asamanov, to which other officials and TV presenters from Russia were invited.

Biznes Gazeta, a Russian website specializing in financial news, said Ashmanov suggested the Kremlin create an intelligence agency similar to dictator Joseph Stalin’s intelligence office to monitor all stories related to the war in Ukraine and draw a single picture. special military operation” launched by President Vladimir Putin on February 24 last year.

But Zakharova rejected the businessman’s proposal, saying that the Russian government currently does not have a single approach to how to talk about the conflict.

“I also said that we do not have a single unified voice of the state,” said the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. She also stated that Moscow’s Foreign Ministry is not authorized to speak about the development of hostilities in Ukraine and that the Ministry of Defense, headed by Serhii Shoigu, “either cannot or does not want to” discuss the conflict.

Maria Zakharova’s comments are a sign that Russian propaganda is degrading?

The US Institute for the Study of War said in its assessment of the war in Ukraine on Saturday that Maria Zakharova’s statements indicate that the Kremlin’s ability to tightly control propaganda in Russia is deteriorating.

“Zakharova’s comment is noteworthy and confirms several ISW assessments regarding the deterioration of the Kremlin regime and its control over the dynamics of the information space,” the ISW assessment said.

“It is unclear why Zakharova – an experienced press secretary – would openly acknowledge these problems at a public event,” US military analysts said this weekend.

The ISW assessment also noted that President Vladimir Putin appears to have handed over control of Russia’s information space to “a number of quasi-independent actors,” as Russian military bloggers, Moscow-based military correspondents and mercenary leader Wagner openly and harshly criticize the military command from Moscow. .

This criticism, however, is almost exclusively directed at Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov, and other Russian commanders on the battlefield. Criticism and direct attacks on Vladimir Putin are extremely rare.

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