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- A former Russian commander trashed Vladimir Putin's national address on Tuesday.
- Igor Girkin noted on Telegram that Putin never mentioned Russia's "failures" in its war with Ukraine.
- "Not a word about failures and defeats. Blah blah blah," Girkin said in a post.
A former Russian commander and prominent military blogger on Tuesday trashed Russian President Vladimir Putin's national address on the Kremlin's war with Ukraine for blatantly ignoring Moscow's "failures" and "defeats" in the invasion.
"So, everything is clear: [the] Special Military Operation will continue in the current mode for some reason," Igor Girkin, the former Russian intelligence officer who played a key role in the annexation of Crimea in 2014, said in a Telegram post criticizing Putin's speech.