Welcome back for a summary of Week 101 of Putin’s War. Let’s start with some music.
The biggest story of Putin’s War in Ukraine last week was the palace intrigue surrounding the on-and-off replacement of Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhny. Monday, the rumor started that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had called Zaluzhny to his office and dismissed him. Ukrainian social media went bonkers because Zaluzhny is popular with Ukrainians — he had started organizing a defense against a possible Russian invasion. He was responsible for stopping the Russian “thunders run ski” to Kyiv in its tracks. He’s also very popular with the troops because he gets rid of imbeciles, doesn’t go in for human wave attacks, and tries to ensure the troops are trained and rotated out of the line for rest.
As the day wore on and…
