Vladimir Putin's ‘weak’ military can not even defend Kremlin: Ex-Russian commander | World News

Former Russian commander Igor Girkin stated that president Vladimir Putin's navy is at the moment not robust sufficient to defend the Kremlin. Girkin was reportedly instrumental in Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and was additionally liable for commanding Russian navy in Ukraine's Donbas area.

Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's minister of inside affairs, shared a translated clip of Girkin on Twitter.

"If we maintain preventing like this, we can't be capable to maintain [the southern Russian city] Rostov-on-Don in a 12 months," Girkin stated, based on Gerashchenko's translation.

"Terrorist Girkin-Strelkov may be very gloomy in his analysis of the Russian military, identical to Prigozhin," Gerashchenko wrote within the caption for this tweet, referencing Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Girkin stated that "proper now they are not that robust" including that "in the long term, if we go on preventing like we're preventing now, we can't be capable to maintain something."

"We cannot even maintain the Kremlin again in time," he stated.

Speaking of the alleged drone assault on Kremlin earlier this month, the previous commander criticized Vladimir Putin for what he characterised as lack of an acceptable response.

“The Kremlin palace has already been attacked, and now we have no response to it. If it does not even make the president, the commander-in-chief, turn out to be the performer of his constitutional features, then what are you speaking about right here?,” Girkin stated.