Vladimir Putin’s closest allies are demanding the Russian President “turbocharges” his invasion to crush neighbour Ukraine amid claims his military campaign is failing.
There have been nearly 50,000 deaths so far since Russia invaded Ukraine in February - but the war has reached a stalemate.
The warmonger's space chief Dmitry Rogozin issued a chilling demand to “end” Ukraine while leading propagandist Dmitry Solovyov said he must take the gloves off and stop trying to protect the lives of the enemy.
Outspoken Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, posted: “What has emerged in place of Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian people, Russian history, the Russian language and Russian civilisation.
“If we don't end them - as unfortunately, our grandfathers didn't end them - then our grandchildren will have to die and will have to pay an even bigger price.
“So let’s put an end to it. Once and for all. For the sake of our grandchildren.”
Head of the RT “propaganda” machine Margarita Simonyan demanded harsh new firepower from Russia. Simonyan claimed the Ukrainians were indiscriminately bombarding markets, maternity hospitals, buildings and streets.
She demanded: “Mother (Russia), is it not time yet to smash these animals not by their hands, but on their jaw?”
TV anchorman Vladimir Solovyov, known as ‘Putin’s Voice’, urged Putin to speed up the invasion which is now making slow progress in the Donbas. He said he wanted the troops to switch to "turbo-mode" and said they are trying to minimise "not only our losses but also the Ukrainian losses.
“So every day we give you [them] the opportunity to surrender, to sign the surrender.”
In an extraordinary outburst, he claimed it was Putin "who is protecting the Ukrainian people”.
He claimed Zelensky was guilty of “ethnocide against the Ukrainian people”.
Putin faced criticism from Igor Strelkov, 51, a former intelligence and army veteran who was formerly a staunchly pro-Kremlin commander of clandestine military operations during the annexation of Crimea and Donbas in 2014.
He mocked the lack of real progress by Russian forces.
“The second stage of the special military operation…has failed because the Donetsk group of the enemy could not be destroyed,” he said.
“It was only pushed back in some locations, but the advances are just tactical.”
Col. Vladimir Kvachkov, 73, an ex-Spetsnaz military intelligence commander, demanded huge mobilisation to counter the problems.
“Without introducing martial law in Russia, and partial or better general mobilisation, there will be no strategic changes in this,” he said.
“I have a feeling that Citizen Putin is afraid of a mass army more than the Ukrainian [army].”
But Girkin said Russia was so badly equipped away from the front that even mobilisation would not help, saying: "An attempt to conduct mobilisation, given [our] unpreparedness, may burst like a bubble in a toilet, and blow up and splatter everyone around.”
