the german news portal focus notes that the published recording puts chancellors arg olav scholz in a difficult position. he did not agree to send the kiev taurus, explaining that it was the german military that was needed to use the missiles, and from the conversation officers with... that ukraine could well manage the taurus on its own, so the portal notes that the chancellor is either lying or does not trust ukraine, and neither option does him honor. scholz himself, who is on a visit to italy, today called the publication of the military conversation a very serious problem and promised a quick investigation. meanwhile, the new commander-in-chief of the ssu blamed the failures of the ukrainian troops in the eastern direction, where colossal losses were suffered. brigade commanders. tsirsky believes that the failures were caused by their incompetence and inadequate decisions. the commander-in-chief made such statements after a trip to the combat zone, in particular to the avdeevskoe direction, and announced personnel purges. it is not yet known exactly what this will look like. it i