WLadimir Putin acknowledged a “memorable date” on Friday. The Russian President was not concerned with the hundred days of war or “special operation” in Ukraine. What mattered to him was that Russia’s National Security Council was formed thirty years ago. Chaired by the President, the body brings together members of the state leadership. In February, shortly before the attack on Ukraine, Putin had her agreement to the recognition of the “people’s republics” in the Donbass as “states” recorded in a meeting that was exceptionally partly shown on state television: No secret service agent, minister or investigator can later claim he rebelled against Putin. “Your competent, responsible, complex work is particularly required today,” Putin assured his “esteemed comrades” in a telegram of congratulations.
The fact that the “special operation” lasted a hundred days on Friday, according to the verdict of the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, “draws on”, covered up Putin’s state television – which is the most important source of information for seventy percent of Russians – with reports on the Russian civil protection, which in “Liberated” areas in the Donbass clearing away rubbish and doing other good deeds. Recently, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said Russia was not chasing deadlines on the “special operation,” and Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu claimed Russian troops were “deliberately” slowing their “attack pace” to “avoid civilian casualties.”