Blame

 NY Times: As Russia Stalls in Ukraine, Dissent Brews Over Putin’s Leadership - Military losses have mounted, progress has slowed, and a blame game has begun among some Russian supporters of the war. By Anton Troianovski and Michael Schwirtz

Igor Girkin, a former colonel in Russia’s F.S.B. intelligence agency and the former “defense minister” of Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, said in a video interview posted online on Monday that Russia had made a “catastrophically incorrect assessment” of Ukraine’s forces.