> according to Meduza’s sources, Dmitry Rogozin will become one of the Kremlin’s supervisors for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” and the other Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/07/13/the-president-likes-...
He's talking about criminals joining the ranks of Russia's army and how he's unhappy about it. Go figure...
He's also upset that the world is not considering him and his people as people.
Deciphering the symbolic was more interesting. He kept his fist closed in the end, but others did not.
The Black/Yellow/White flag is a Russian flag from Tzar Alexander II. The Blue/Yellow/Red flag appears to be related to Germany.
What's amusing is that Russian March an anti-Putin organization. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA... - use Google Translate to read this instead of the English version.
Either way, he picked his poison long ago.
The worst part is that both sides have the resources and will to continue fighting for quite a long time (years), unless some hard to predict event turns the tide.
HIMARS 300 km. Destroys the Russian dependency on railroads and with that, Russian military logistics capacity.
Eg. Crimea:
https://warsawinstitute.org/train-crimea-russia-condemned-op...
https://newsbeezer.com/vietnameng/russia-deploys-smoke-scree...
Their priority is also their weakness.
Just look at the slow Russian advance without railroads in eg. Kyiv in the beginning of the war. They were stalled for weeks, because the composition of their BTG's are based on nearby access to railroads infrastructure.
That's a bit too wonder-weapony for me to think that it will actually happen that way.
That Crimean bridge seems like it could be destroyed effectively, but it's out of range. With the Donbas, I wonder if any damage could be repaired relatively quickly, since it would obviously be a priority.
It's clearly a play on the names of African countries Zimbabwe and Uganda, but was is your message?
Is it a show of disparaging attitude towards the people living in the East of Ukraine?
People routinely disappear, being put in the basement (na podval), tortured for smallest reasons.
Drafts when people are being used a cannon fodder.
It’s a disgrace what Putin’s people turned this place into over 8 years.
Same or worse fate awaits newly occupied territories too.
It is a crime against humanity.
So unless he surrounds himself with human shields most of the time, or moves really stealthily around, Rogozin is in for a rather risky career change.
There is already vicious spiral of oppression and resistance happening on those parts of Ukraine. He could be +-safe with protection on level of US president, but he won't have that. There are only few situations worse than to be considered occupant or traitor in place like current Ukraine.
You're forgetting that Russian generals are demoted if they win too much, since they could become a threat to Putin's position if they gain too much influence.
There's no way to win in the Russian military, other than the bribes in your pocket.
"USSR logic"
He has a great experience running Roscosmos which is quite a large corporation.
And he is very patriotic, highly motivated, will not sell or betray Russia. That's why he is ideal for that task.
(Ref: https://www.space.com/elon-musk-spacex-launch-trampoline-com...)