The meeting upset the Defense Ministry, which has been trying to cover up the level of problems facing Russian soldiers in Ukraine. “They’re starting to talk about putting everybody in a box,” he said. Igor Strelkov, a former FSB colonel who took part in the first Russian invasion of Donbass in 2014, told his 400,000 subscribers that the Russian military’s missile defense system was completely “ineffective”. Fighting Cat Murz, a former rebel fighter based in Donetsk, went further. He wrote on his LiveJournal blog that Russian military commanders were unable not to move vital ammunition supplies out of range of the long-range artillery supplied by the West. “Our military is led by a bunch of uneducated idiots,” he wrote on Saturday. “Stupid wretched, wretched, vengeful, petty, thieving lemmings.”