2023-06-05 13:19:00
Putin receives regular military updates ‘from the ground’, Kremlin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin receives regular updates on the course of the war “from the ground” in addition to official briefings, the Kremlin said Monday.
“The president always prefers to have a variety of sources of information, especially when it comes to the special military operation, and along with official reports, he regularly makes calls and receives information directly from the ground,” Putin’s spokesman told reporters. Dmitry Peskov.
Peskov added that Putin maintains communication with the heads of units participating in the “special military operation.”
Last week, Putin had a talk with Apty Aaudinov, aide to the head of the Chechen Republic and commander of the Akhmat special forces, Peskov told the state news agency RIA Novosti.
On the other hand, the head of the town of Shebekino, in the Belgorod region, which has been heavily bombed, Vladimir Zhdanov, told Russian state media that he had a phone call with Putin in which they discussed the situation in the region. . The Kremlin did not make the recording of the call public.
“It seemed to me that the president is in perfect control of the situation, that he understands what is happening. The first thing he asked was what help was needed. He was very nice, our president is with us,” Zhdanov said on Thursday last week, according to RIA Novosti.
Some 4,000 people have been evacuated from Belgorod and are staying in makeshift shelters amid intensifying fighting in the region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Sunday.
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