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Enlarge / Dmitry Rogozin, 2nd from left, has been progressive successful the Donbas portion of Ukraine.
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It has been astir 5 months since Dmitry Rogozin was sacked arsenic manager wide of Roscosmos, the Russian state-owned abstraction corporation. Later, a Russian abstraction authoritative acknowledged that Rogozin was removed from this high-profile station to easiness tensions with NASA and different partners connected the International Space Station. It has worked, arsenic planetary spaceflight relations person improved.
Since his dismissal it has been speculated that Rogozin mightiness instrumentality immoderate benignant of enactment presumption successful Russian-occupied areas of Eastern Ukraine. This has yet to happen, however, truthful Rogozin declared himself the caput of the "Tsar's Wolves" inspection radical of volunteers. Rogozin's stated purpose has been to trial and proviso the precocious weapons exertion needed by Russian troops to triumph the war.
As portion of his efforts, Rogozin has been posting images and statements to his Telegram account from the Donbas portion of Ukraine, visiting with troops. To look the part—and, knowing Rogozin, apt to physique up his representation arsenic a "tough guy"—Rogozin has besides posted images of himself dressed up arsenic a soldier. At times, however, Rogozin's actions person looked much similar cosplaying than thing else, and immoderate Russians (as good arsenic prominent erstwhile NASA astronauts) person taken to mocking the Russian person who was erstwhile adjacent to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Recently, Russians person been picking isolated these images of Rogozin due to the fact that they amusement him wearing much costly cogwheel than is disposable to Russian troops. Some of his equipment, successful fact, was made successful NATO countries, which Russia opposes.
Apparently Russian subject correspondents are making amusive of Dmitry Rogozin due to the fact that helium keeps posting photos of himself successful fancy NATO subject cogwheel that is an bid of magnitude much costly than regular Russian troops get. Example: pic.twitter.com/j7nQyTMPys
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) November 28, 2022
Among Rogozin's caller critics is nary different than Yevgeny Prigozhin, a antheral known arsenic "Putin's chef," who is 1 of the astir unsafe radical successful Russia. Prigozhin has seen his illustration emergence importantly this twelvemonth arsenic Putin has turned to him to assistance stem the tide of a flailing warfare effort successful Ukraine. In this role, Prigozhin efficaciously has carte blanche to enactment wrong Russia and Ukraine.
Prigozhin leads an enactment called the Wagner Group, which has stood up mercenary armies to enactment Russian forces successful Eastern Ukraine. As helium has done this, Prigozhin has mercilessly criticized Russian defence officials who led the war's aboriginal phases. Of the Russian subject wide staff, he said successful October, "All these bastards ought to beryllium sent to the beforehand barefoot with conscionable a submachine gun."
Now Prigozhin has taken enactment of Rogozin's travels adjacent the beforehand lines. Prigozhin said the actions of Rogozin successful Ukraine are intelligibly being done for the purposes of nationalist relations, alternatively than furthering the Russian warfare effort. Moreover, he said, Wagner Group soldiers are well-trained to place those attired successful NATO clothing. They are prepared to termination immoderate specified radical connected sight.
Prigozhin besides took a gratuitous changeable astatine the prime of Russian rockets and satellites during Rogozin's tenure astatine Roscosmos, which lasted from May 2018 to July 2022, and saw respective high-profile failures.
Rogozin, astatine slightest publicly, has yet to respond to the criticisms.
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