The spin is positive...
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Lt-Gen Igor Konashenkov, a Russian military spokesman who has mounted a “magnificent attempt at face-saving” as his fellow troops are routed in Ukraine, says Michael Deacon in The Daily Telegraph. He valliantly tried to claim the soldiers retreated deliberately in order to “further the aims of the operation to liberate Donbas”, an area mostly under Russian control already. I can only hope Konashenkov takes his military spin further: “Yes, our soldiers may have been running – but only to ensure that they reached Donbas all the more quickly. And yes, they may have left behind their weapons – but that was only to prevent these heavy, cumbersome objects from weighing our soldiers down, and thus hindering their swift redeployment
Hero
Lt-Gen Igor Konashenkov, a Russian military spokesman who has mounted a “magnificent attempt at face-saving” as his fellow troops are routed in Ukraine, says Michael Deacon in The Daily Telegraph. He valliantly tried to claim the soldiers retreated deliberately in order to “further the aims of the operation to liberate Donbas”, an area mostly under Russian control already. I can only hope Konashenkov takes his military spin further: “Yes, our soldiers may have been running – but only to ensure that they reached Donbas all the more quickly. And yes, they may have left behind their weapons – but that was only to prevent these heavy, cumbersome objects from weighing our soldiers down, and thus hindering their swift redeployment
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