‘The place is Vladimir Putin?’, Russian ex-commander says: ‘He’s an Egyptian mummy' | World News

Former commander of separatist forces in Ukraine’s Donbas space Igor Girkin condemned Russian president Vladimir Putin evaluating him to an Egyptian mummy. Igor Girkin, additionally known as Strelkov, who rose to prominence after 2014, has repeatedly condemns the Russian navy and Putin for the way in which they’re conducting Ukraine’s invasion.

In a video tweeted by Ukrainian inside affairs adviser, Anton Gerashchenko, Igor Girkin appeared to study out a question about whether or not or not the Russian president was able to “break his promise to not kill Zelensky.”

Smirking, the blogger said that “based on Putin’s habits, the question that I’ve is, is there Putin the least bit?”

“How is it attainable, the supreme-commander-in-chief withdrew himself from the battle? Of us from his inside circle are overtly combating amongst themselves and undermining the stability of the doorway with their actions, nonetheless he doesn’t react in any method,” Igor Girkin said.

“And the place is he anyway?” he requested, saying that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov always insists “that one factor is being reported to him.”

“Correctly, you might as nicely report again to mummies,” he added saying “a mummy lies” and “the mom is silent,” concluding that “the result's evident.”

“That's what the habits of the supreme commander-in-chief looks like in our nation,” he said.

This comes as Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive had started nonetheless Kyiv “didn’t attain their targets in any area of battle”. Within the meantime, Ukraine’s forces said that that they'd made advances on components of the frontline near Bakhmut.