In Kyiv, Belousov’s meeting with military officers was considered a “serious threat”
The meeting between new Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and Russian military correspondents is a worrying sign for Ukraine, indicating that the Russians are seriously looking for problems in the war, finding them, and beginning to solve them. This was stated by retired SBU colonel and military expert Oleg Starikov on Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev's channel , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"About Belousov and the war correspondents. We were winning the war, and continue to do so, in tactics, but we're losing in strategy. The enemy has realized this , and now they're reformatting it to start winning not only in strategy but also in tactics, in the military-industrial complex. Why did he gather war correspondents? To convey real information to the country's top leadership, to Putin . Because in that bureaucratic system, everything gets blurred. Shamanov's statement —a hero of the Chechen war, he enjoys [authority] in Russia—he said that we've turned the war into a guerrilla war. So, we provide for our soldiers, but where's the state? People like that don't say anything for no reason.
"This is the first call. Military correspondents will be reporting, it will be a permanent communication channel. Konashenkov was sitting there, carefully studying who's on the right, who's on the opposite side. This is very important. The next step is Gurulev [former commander of the 58th Army] said that the state has the money, give it to the commanders, and they'll buy electronic warfare systems, drones, and so on themselves," Starikov said.
" I see this as a threat to us, because first, to solve a problem, you have to understand what it is, and they've understood it. And now they're making decisions about how to solve it using the administrative apparatus," the colonel added.
Belousov's meeting with war correspondents was considered a "serious threat" in Kyiv.