Just a reminder that the dude leading the coup in Russia is the same guy who spearheaded the 'active measures' / Russian interference in the 2016 US election. This from the Mueller Report:
Even all the events in russia don’t stop putin from giving orders to kill us. Kyiv is crying today. At least 2 killed, 11 wounded.
Photos by Yan Dobronosov
The Collective Security Treaty Organization, CSTO, refuses to support Putin
According to Kazakh channels, Putin called the CSTO members - President Lukashenko of Belarus and President Tokayev of Kazakhstan.
Tokayev refused to support Putin. The Kazakh president said that Prigozhin's rebellion was an internal matter in Russia.
Lukashenko is currently in Turkey.
Everyone who chooses the path of evil destroys himself. Who sends columns of troops to destroy the lives of another country and cannot stop them from fleeing and betraying when life resists. Who terrorizes with missiles, and when they are shot down, humiliates himself to receive Shahed drones. Who despises people and throws hundreds of thousands into the war, in order to eventually barricade himself in the Moscow region from those whom he himself armed. For a long time, Russia used propaganda to mask its weakness and the stupidity of its government. And now there is so much chaos that no lie can hide it. And all this is one person, who again and again scares by the year 1917, although he is able to result in nothing else but this.
Russia's weakness is obvious. Full-scale weakness. And the longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain, and problems it will have for itself later. It is also obvious. Ukraine is able to protect Europe from the spread of Russian evil and chaos.
We keep our resilience, unity and strength.
All our commanders, all our soldiers know what to do.
Glory to Ukraine!
The Kremlin tried to negotiate with Prigozhin in the first hours of his armed uprising - "Important Stories"
The publication "Important Stories," citing a source close to the presidential administration, reports that at the very beginning of Yevgeny Prigozhin's demarche, the Kremlin tried to negotiate with him. In particular, he was offered to "back off," and all of his published messages could be explained by hacking of his account and voice falsification.
According to the source, Prigozhin refused to accept the terms offered to him by the presidential administration, after which Vladimir Putin
ordered to initiate a criminal case against him and "deal with it the hard way".
The publication "Important Stories" notes that some Telegram channels - in particular, the "Talking Topaz" channel - even began to spread the presidential administration's version of the fake voice. It was reposted by the Rybar channel, which is close to the Defense Ministry (over a million subscribers).