January 11, 2023
17:05
“I am personally ready to support a possible removal of Vladimir Putin from power,” said the leader of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Igor Girkin, also known as Igor Strelkov, Sky News reported.
“I’m not a fan of changing the commander-in-chief during active hostilities, but maybe something should be done,” he added.
Girkin, Strelkov, added: The absence of criticism can not prevent or even delay the catastrophe (in Ukraine).
“In case I die because of my criticism of the Russian leadership, people will know that I was on the right track and will consider my duty fulfilled,” the separatist leader added.
“Girkin has previously addressed harsh words to the Russian military and political leadership. However, until this statement, he supported the Russian president and his actions during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine,” the news agency commented. British.
Experts quoted by Sky News said: The separatist leader’s words show that there is great disillusionment in Russia with the failures on the front line. They also show that there is a huge rift in Russian society.
Igor Girkin was born in 1970 in Moscow. He fought alongside pro-Russian separatists in the so-called Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (June-September 1992) and alongside the Serbs in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (November 1992-March 1993).
Girkin then left the barracks and went on to serve in the Russian army as a professional soldier. From 1998 to 2005 he worked in the special units of the Federal Security Service (FSS) and visited Chechnya. Girkin retired as a colonel from the FSS in November 2013.
In 2014, Girkin served as a top commander of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region and then went under the alias Strelkov. In 2014, he headed the “Ministry of Defense” of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic for several months and then returned to his hometown.
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