Budanov On The Losses Of Russian Soldiers in Ukraine: The Kremlin Is Preparing A Plan B To Justify Itself To Its People

"If you follow their official rhetoric, they are not even conducting a war, but a "special operation." And the purpose of this "special operation", if you throw out this rubbish about the fight against Nazism, the disarmament of Ukraine, and so on, does not have any clear geographical boundaries," Budanov stressed. According to him, the Kremlin will present even local successes as a victory in Ukraine.

“Since they suffer significant losses and have major military failures, they are already preparing their society for the fact that, in principle, reaching the administrative borders [of Luhansk and Donetsk regions] and holding the Kherson region, perhaps even partially Zaporozhye region, is already a victory. They they are preparing, as they say, a plan B for themselves in order to justify to their people what they did here and how to show them their victory, to make their victory out of their defeat," Budanov said.

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