Alexander Rutskoy, a former Soviet general, accused Putin of 'senselessly' killing tens of thousands of Russian soldiers who have been used as cannon fodder in the war.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11691403/Putin-laughing-stock-says-Russias-former-vice-president.html
Vice President during Yeltsin's reign accuses Putin of surrounding himself with incompetents. Do you know who Rutskoy is? He was arrested in 1993 after being a main instigator of the constitutional crisis following the impeachment of Yeltsin. I am sure that even you will be able to use the following undisputed facts as clues to who and what, Rutskoy is.
Rutskoy was Vice President President of RSFSR/Russia from 10 July 1991 before arrest 4 October 1993. As vice president, he openly called for the independence of Transnistria and Crimea from Moldova and Ukraine.-from Wiki.
On the night of 21–22 September 1993, Rutskoy ascended the podium of the Russian parliament,[16] and assumed the powers of acting President of Russia at 00:25, in accordance with the above article.[17] He took the presidential oath, and said: "I am taking the authority of President. The anti-constitutional decree of President Yeltsin is annulled." Rutskoy's interim presidency, although constitutional, was never acknowledged outside Russia. After the two-week standoff, and the violence erupting on the streets of Moscow, on 4 October 1993, the Russian White House was taken by Yeltsin's military forces. Rutskoy and his supporters were arrested and charged with organization of mass disturbances. The day before, Yeltsin officially dismissed Rutskoy as vice president, Rutskoy was imprisoned in the Moscow Lefortovo prison[19] until 26 February 1994,[20] when he and other participants of both the August 1991 and October 1993 crises were granted amnesty by the State Duma.[21]
Soon after his release, Rutskoy founded a populist, nationalist party, Derzhava, which failed in the 1995 legislative election to the State Duma, gathering only about 2.5% of the votes and thus not passing the 5% threshold. Rutskoy was released as a POW in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1988 after intervention by the CIA.
None of the above is in any way misrepresented or disputed.
Instead of Rutskoy becoming President and selling out, Crimeans, Transnistrians in 1993, Yeltsin hung on and appointed Putin in 1999.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Rutskoy is not the voice of Russia. He is a bitter selfish and extremely fringe figure.
