Putin urgently convened a meeting with representatives of the leadership of the power and military blocs.
After the Ukrainian armed forces struck a base of mobilized Russian occupants in temporarily occupied Makeyevka, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin openly demanded that the leadership of the so-called «special military operation,» including Sergey Surovikin, be executed.
According to the Telegram channel «General SVR,» Putin was informed about the «bavan» eight hours after the incident and was given different data regarding the number of casualties and wounded among the Russian military and different interpretations of the incident.
In the first military report, the number of dead and missing from the strike was 88. The Russian Security Council report stated «at least 257 dead and missing.»
Putin reportedly convened a meeting with representatives of the security and military bloc leadership.
«The meeting was held in the evening of January 1, and already during the meeting, representatives of the General Staff gave the figure of casualties from the strike as 105 people, and Patrushev replied that according to his information, it was at least 290 people. Putin ordered the leadership of the military bloc to provide detailed information about what happened and not to conceal the real scale of losses,» the channel wrote.
«As a result, Putin accepted as a basis Patrushev’s version, which was close to the versions and figures of losses of the FSB, the Emergencies Ministry and the Health Ministry. In Patrushev’s report, the «final» losses as a result of the AFU strike on the facility in Makeyevka are 312 dead and missing and 157 wounded, a roll call was attached,» the report said.
According to the channel, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev blamed the leadership of the military bloc for the «tragedy» and demanded that Putin make personnel decisions and punish those responsible, Sergey Surovikin was named among others.
Alexander Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service of Russia, allegedly supported Patrushev, and it was explained to Putin that it was the «SVO» military command that had completely botched the operation.
«The main thing is that for the first time the accusations were made by the security forces in a harsh form in the presence of the president and actually to the face of the military, and the proposals of reprisals against the guilty, were stated practically in ultimatum form. Putin took time to consider the situation, but addressed the leadership of the Defense Ministry and General Staff with several threats in bad language,» notes the SVR general.
As Charter97.org reported, on the night of January 1, 2023, the Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked a place where Russian soldiers were stationed in occupied Makeyevka, Donetsk region.
The building was completely destroyed. As a result of the strike, 400 occupants could have been killed and 300 injured.
Large losses of occupants in Makiivka were also confirmed by Russian propagandists.
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