By Felix Light and Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) - Igor Girkin, a prominent Russian ultranationalist in custody awaiting trial on charges of inciting ...
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The post was laced with irony and Girkin appears an unlikely contender. But his comments were notable for their direct public criticism of the president, whom he accused of misjudgment over the war in Ukraine, which Russia calls a"special military operation"."The current president is too kind," he added. At the start of the war, Putin had been"led by the nose" by Ukraine and the West, but also by Russia's security agencies and defence industry.
Girkin said Putin had billionaire friends"to whom he cannot refuse anything", and that their wealth was growing faster than military production.Since the death of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash last week, Girkin is the most prominent remaining critic of the way Moscow has waged its war in Ukraine.
Girkin, who also goes by the name Igor Strelkov, is a former security officer who helped to start the initial war in Ukraine in 2014, when a militia under his command seized the east Ukrainian city of Sloviansk.In May, he said a nationalist group he was leading would enter politics as an opposition party because a"systemic crisis" was brewing.
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