Vladimir Putin is starting to face a backlash over Russia’s war in Ukraine after the Kharkiv de

Vladimir Putin is under pressure after Ukraine’s lightning counter-offensive in the eastern Kharkiv region led to Kyiv’s forces retaking an area the size of Greater London in 48 hours...
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2022-09-12T18:16:27Z
Deputies in 18 districts of Moscow and St Petersburg are reported to have signed a statement warning the president’s actions are “detrimental to the future of Russia and its citizens”.
“If changes are not made, I will be forced to go to the country’s leadership to explain to them the situation on the ground,” he said.
It comes after Ukraine’s lightning counter offensive in the eastern Kharkiv region saw Kyiv’s forces retake an area the size of Greater London in just 48 hours, as Russian troops fled their positions and abandoned more than 100 fighting vehicles.
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“We demand the resignation of Vladimir Putin from the position of president of the Russian federation,” the petition shared on social media by Ksenia Torstrem, who is claimed to be a deputy for St Petersburg, reportedly says.
Two days later, an appeal appeared on the website of the Moscow district of Lomonosovsky demanding he resign.
Regional elections have been taking place in Russia amid accusations of vote rigging.
Ukraine claims to have killed around a dozen Russian generals during the course of the war.
As Ukraine advanced across swathes of territory at the weekend, videos emerged of their claimed capture of Lieutenant-General Andrei Sychevoi – the commander of Russia’s western forces group.
More than 48,000 Russian soldiers have died in six months of fighting, according to an analysis of compensation payments to families, compared with 14,400 in the Soviet Union’s decade-long war in Afghanistan in the 80s.
The separatists’ Vostok battalion commander Aleksander Khodakovsy is also reported to have said in a Telegram channel that pro-Russian soldiers were being put through a “meat grinder”, adding: “If this approach is maintained, Russia will be overwhelmed by a wave of funeral notices, which will lead to a serious crisis.”
Mr Putin is also facing criticism from pro-war Russian bloggers and commentators, with a former member of Russia’s parliament, Boris Nadezhdin, saying in an extraordinary outburst on television that Putin’s forces can no longer win and Moscow should hold peace talks.
Edward Arnold, a European security research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, told
“In addition, both Igor Girkin, an influential commander in the 2014 annexation of Crimea, and Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen republic, have openly called for answers from Moscow on the direction of Russia’s ‘special military operation’.
“The fact that commentators are discussing this both outside and within Russia is significant in itself.”

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