Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov was asked to check the spending on preparations for mobilization. The corresponding request was sent by Andrey Kartapolov and Vasily Piskarev, heads of the State Duma committees on defense and security.
This was announced by a member of the Duma Defense Committee, Lieutenant General Andrei Gurulev. According to him, they asked the Prosecutor General to “figure out where the funds allocated in full to provide rear services have gone.” “The money was allocated, there is no property for mobilization, attention is the question: where?” – quotes Gurulev Interfax.
Formerly Gurulev discoveredthat 1.5 million sets of military uniforms are missing at the points of reception of personnel. “It is still unclear to me where the one and a half million kits that were stored at the points of reception of personnel have gone. Where are the problems with the form, with something else? No one is going to explain this!” Gurulev was indignant.
At the same time, the deputy criticized the resignation of Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov, who was responsible for providing troops. According to Gurulev, you need to “specifically ask him where, where and why.”
On the eve of Kartapolov, on the air of Solovyov Live, he said that “the money was allocated” to the Ministry of Defense in full. “When we discussed the budget last year, I asked the representative of the Ministry of Defense, does it suit you completely, does it provide for your needs? I received an answer that provides,” said Kartapolov.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization on 21 September. The authorities promised to provide conscripts to the front with everything they need. However, then the mobilized began to be advised to take warm jackets, winter camouflage robes, berets and karemats with them. Prices in military stores in some cases increased by more than 1000%.
According to analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the campaign to criticize the leadership of the Russian Defense Ministry may be the result of President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to shift the blame for the defeat at the front to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. But now Putin cannot and does not want to dismiss Shoigu, because if the failures continue, the responsibility will fall on the new defense minister.
In addition to criticism from the State Duma, which called on the military ministry to “stop lying,” as well as critical remarks by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the creator of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s dissatisfaction with Shoigu was expressed in the fact that he publicly “corrected the mistake” of the Ministry of Defense and granted a respite from mobilization of students, ISW analysts say.