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A starring state of Vladimir Putin has openly criticized the president and issued a veiled "king of the rains" informing aft Russia's retreat from Kherson.
Posting connected Telegram, Ultranationalist Alexander Dugin, known arsenic "Putin's Brain," called the Russian president an autocrat with eventual powerfulness implicit the warfare arsenic helium accused him of "surrendering" the metropolis connected November 12.
He said that the retreat undermines Russian ideology by failing to support "Russian cities."
On 30 September President Putin formally annexed 4 Ukrainian provinces, including the confederate Kherson region, into Russia.
Pro-war Dugin, whose girl was killed successful a Moscow car explosion earlier this year, said an autocrat has a work to prevention his federation each by himself oregon look the destiny of the "king of the rains," according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The U.S. deliberation vessel said the punctuation was a notation to Sir James Frazer's 'The Golden Bough', wherever a king was killed due to the fact that helium was incapable to present rainfall amidst a drought.
The ISW added: "Dugin besides noted that the autocrat cannot repair this deviation from ideology simply with nationalist appearances, noting that 'the authorities successful Russia cannot surrender thing else' and that 'the bounds has been reached.'"
Dugin past referenced the usage of tactical atomic weapons.
According to the ISW: "He (Dugin) suggested, however, that Russia indispensable perpetrate to the Rusian thought alternatively than pursuing the 'stupid' usage of atomic weapons."
The nonaccomplishment of Kherson, successful confederate Ukraine, adds to the database of increasing setbacks suffered by Russia, which has mislaid much than 77,000 troops since the commencement of the war, according to Ukrainian estimates.
Russia has seldom published its ain figures and its estimates person been overmuch little than Ukraine's. Both figures person been scrutinized arsenic not being close by extracurricular observers.
Dugin has been joined by different outspoken nationalist figures who person expressed vexation astatine the Kherson retreat.
Russian authorities TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, who is nicknamed "Putin's voice" owed to his enactment of the president, expressed vexation astatine Moscow's forces blowing up bridges arsenic they retreated from Kherson.
On Saturday, Solovyov, appearing connected his Vesti FM vigor amusement 'Full Contact,' claimed Russia had withdrawn its troops from immoderate parts of Ukraine arsenic a "goodwill gesture."
But helium soon became progressively animated and suggested the Russian service should person attacked Ukrainian infrastructure earlier arsenic helium discussed reports that troops had blown up bridges crossed the Dnipro stream during their retreat.
He said: "I've been screaming retired large since February that we request to onslaught the bridges, destruct the infrastructure, transportation entryways. They [Russian military] said, 'You don't recognize anything, they'll bring their instrumentality to the aforesaid country and we volition smash it!'
"So did you smash it? You don't understand, it's a brotherly nation, we'll person to reconstruct these bridges, we'll participate done them."
He added: "Where? Where volition we enter? When they were leaving [Kherson], they blew up the bridges. Where are we going to enter?"
Newsweek has contacted the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the Kremlin for comment.
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