Putin the ‘meddling colonel’: Russian president is making tactical decisions for his troops

Vladimir Putin is dictating on-the-ground troop movements in Ukraine as his army falters, according to Western military sources.

General Valery Gerasimov is also said to be making similar tactical decisions, micro-managing the war in minute detail which would normally be overseen by a colonel.

‘We think Putin and Gerasimov are involved in tactical decision-making at a level we would normally expect to be taken by a colonel or a brigadier’, said a Western military source, according to The Guardian.

The same source said that Russian battalion tactical groups (BTGs) had been ‘battered’, adding: ‘If Putin is doing the job of a brigade commander’ then ‘he could be delving into a force that could be as small as 700 to 1,000 soldiers’.

Putin’s soldiers have so far failed to achieve their military…