Diplomatic Asset

Foreign policy, military strategy, history. Focus is on US, Europe, Russia, Middle East, Asia.

[Diplomatic Asset @DiplomaticAsset]

Surovikin, released, avoids fate of Zhidko & Prigozhin but for how long? Promise made by  greatcharlie kept! READ The Reported Release of Surovikin and Our Apologetic Retraction: Simple Truth Unhappily Forsworn https://t.co/qwVdftbwXm #UkraineRussiaWar️ #Russia #Putin #military

[Diplomatic Asset @DiplomaticAsset]

Surovikin, released, avoids fate of Zhidko & Prigozhin but for how long? Promise made by  greatcharlie kept! READ The Reported Release of Surovikin and Our Apologetic Retraction: Simple Truth Unhappily Forsworn https://t.co/qwVdftbwXm #UkraineRussiaWar️ #Russia #Putin #military

[greatcharlie @greatcharlie1]

The Reported Release of Surovikin and Our Apologetic Retraction: Simple Truth Unhappily Forsworn https://t.co/DGsBJWo0Mh #UkraineRussiaWar️ #Ukrainecounteroffensive Russia #Putin #geopolitics #intelligence #military #security #nationalsecurity #students #internationalaffairs

[Diplomatic Asset @DiplomaticAsset]

If #Putin moved on #Prigozhin, can it be said assuredly he acted in/out of character? Could he be sure? Who has his ear? What he seemed to have achieved cleverly in June he may have destroyed clumsily in August. Cui bono? Not him! Darker times ahead for #Russia, for him, for all!

[Diplomatic Asset @DiplomaticAsset]

If #Putin moved on #Prigozhin, can it be said assuredly he acted in/out of character? Could he be sure? Who has his ear? What he seemed to have achieved cleverly in June he may have destroyed clumsily in August. Cui bono? Not him! Darker times ahead for #Russia, for him, for all!

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin said Yevgeny Prigozhin made “serious mistakes”, as Western security sources warned that the Russian president had been emboldened by the apparent assassination of the Wagner Group leader

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[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

He was known as “Putin’s chef”, but he was far more than that. Yevgeny Prigozhin, convicted criminal turned hot dog seller and restaurateur, ended up having his fingers in an awful lot of Vladimir Putin’s geopolitical pies https://t.co/VkP45CO1jY

[Rob Lee @RALee85]

It seems the 46th and 82nd brigades are having more success, and Russia may have decided to fall back to the main defensive line in some areas. I would not assume that the 3 main lines in that direction will be undermanned though given that Ukraine is using reserves. 4/

[Rob Lee @RALee85]

Ukraine began committing elements of its reserves a couple of weeks ago in the Robotyne area. That means Russia can now too, including from Kreminna and other parts of the front. 3/
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[Rob Lee @RALee85]

This is not true. Russia has generally left its regimental and division headquarters in place on the front in the south, but has rotated companies and battalions from other regiments/brigades (including naval infantry and mobilized rifle units) to deal with attrition.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Putin described Prigozhin as a “talented businessman” with a “complicated fate” who “made serious mistakes in his life.” https://t.co/AAqFLFb0io

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Black veterans who ask the Department of Veterans Affairs for physical or mental health benefits are less likely to get them than their white counterparts, according to new data compiled by the VA. https://t.co/veYCXXRMiN

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

One Telegram user wrote that the "assassination" of Prigozhin would have "catastrophic consequences," adding that the people who "gave the order do not understand the mood in the army and morale at all." https://t.co/GLqXGdYoJd

[Samuel Ramani @SamRamani2]

BREAKING: Russia sentences exiled dissident Maxim Katz to 8 years in prison for spreading "fake news" about the army

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

Wagner Group flees Belarus following Prigozhin's death https://t.co/3ZHouqzNPo

[Samuel Ramani @SamRamani2]

BREAKING: A Pentagon official says that claims that Prigozhin was killed by a surface-to-air missile are inaccurate

[The Associated Press @AP]

Vladimir Putin made his first comments since the plane crash in Russia that apparently killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded an intentional explosion brought down the mercenary leader’s private jet.

[Richard Engel @RichardEngel]

Pentagon Press Secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder said they have nothing to indicate there was a surface to air missile that took down the plane and that they assess press reports about that to be inaccurate.

[Diplomatic Asset @DiplomaticAsset]

The #Kremlin has offered no new info re Surovikin's house arrest--detention--in a RF Security Service apartment--confined space. READ "The Plight of Surovikin and Other Russian Generals Reveals More of What Is Wrong with the Russian Federation Government" https://t.co/WMgpTqLQp1

[Diplomatic Asset @DiplomaticAsset]

The #Kremlin has offered no new info re Surovikin's house arrest--detention--in a RF Security Service apartment--confined space. READ "The Plight of Surovikin and Other Russian Generals Reveals More of What Is Wrong with the Russian Federation Government" https://t.co/WMgpTqLQp1