Defense Minister Boris Pistorius appointed Major General Christian Freuding as the new chief (General Inspector) of the German Army. Freuding has led the planning staff of the Army and the situation room for Ukraine. He is known as “YouTube general” because of his videos with updates on the war in Ukraine, published by the Bundeswehr channel. In those videos, Freuding insisted until recently that “Russia cannot win the war.” In one video, he described Operation Spider’s Web with ecstatic tones, claiming that Kiev did it in total secrecy, not informing its allies, and that Russian strategic bombers were unprotected because the Russians are confident in the fact that the immensity of their territory protects their bases from enemy attacks (sic).
On May 8 of this year, Freuding let himself be photographed with Azov battalion commander Romanov in Kiev, which led to a question raised during a press conference of the German government spokesperson.
In another video, explaining what kind of weapons Germany has given to the Ukrainians, and what weapons they still need, he had a slip of the tongue and kept saying “we need,” instead of “they need,” self-indicting as a war party.
