While Uklrainians continue to advance, the turmoil in Russia appears to pause. But it is unlikely that either Putin or Prigozhin can go back to status quo ante bellum. I just do not believe that the bad blood can be ignored or that Putin will tolerate a display of his weakness. Someone will pay.
Secondary impact: Putin will have to keep more ready units in Moscow. This was too close a call. Wagner's 25-50,000 troops will be removed from Ukraine operations. Russia is undoubtedly weaker than 48 hours ago.
Imagine if the CEO of Blackwater publicly declared his intention to march on Washington D.C., shot down multiple USAF aircraft and killed an unknown number of American soldiers, and then was given legal immunity and allowed to maintain his huge private army by the President.🙃
Now seriously, Wagner shot down somewhere around 6 Ru 🚁 and 1 ✈️, killing Ru pilots. Putin called Prigozhin a traitor, and called his actions "a stab in the back of Russia."
And now there are signs that Putin is going to make concessions and a truce with him.
Nice prank, bro👌
Er, so Putin caved to a putschist with an army and agreed to make the MoD more amenable to him, after the putschist showed how well he can challenge the regime. And the guy gets to live? Things are wild, weird and unpredictable in Russia but this doesn’t quite convince.
For sure Putin vs Prigozhin fight it’s a case of evil vs evil - both sides are ugly and antihuman in nature. But no matter the result of this fight there will be a period of consolidation&overhaul if there is quick result soon. Though long bleeding contest is more preferable.
Insurgent Russian forces are already crossing Lipetsk Oblast.
I believe that the insurgent forces will reach Moscow at some time tomorrow. I simply do not believe that Putin has any substantial support in the army or the population any more.
#Lipetsk#Russia#Coup
I love it how the whole of Russian Z-snakepit is now twisting hands in its dramatic rant:
"The Motherland is in danger, the Russian blood is being spilled, and a civil war is underway now"
"There's now fratricide, a stab in the back upon the regular military that is heroically holding on to the front line amid overwhelming assaults"
"In the gruesome hour of hardship and trouble, men of honor need to show their integrity and save our common Mother Russia, which is waging a sacred defensive war with the most evil enemy."
"No matter what happens now in Moscow, dear brothers, keep killing those hohols with anything you have in your hands. There's nothing more important than Russia."
You bunch of sorry-ass morons, with your delusional dictator obsessed with his wretched ego and idiotic pseudo-historic conspiracy theories, unleashed the biggest war of aggression in Europe since Adolf Hitler.
Because you thought you are here to rule the world, you were entitled to anything you want, and there was no one to say no and fight back.
You were sure you were going to have breakfast in Kyiv and then dine in Lviv, just like that.
As a result, some 16 months ago, you sustained a stunning, humiliating defeat in what was one of the lamest, most incompetent, and overconfident attempts to run a blitzkrieg operation against a large European nation.
You continued in the most absurd way possible, simply sweeping cities off the face of the earth only for the sake of declaring them "liberated" and claiming yet another "major victory over Nazis and NATO" in capturing yet another hog farm lost somewhere in Luhansk Oblast.
For many months, you were fighting your senseless 10-day "special military operation" the way not a single military power or a nation can afford with such gains.
Just for the sake of never admitting defeat, you did and normalized the most unimaginable things for the 21st century.
Atrocities and mass graves, masses of suicidal prisoners sent to die in meat grinder assaults, castration, beheading, mutilation, the leveling of major cities full of the civilian population, nuclear threats, bombing campaigns to strip a European nation of heating and electricity in the middle of winter, the worst man-made ecological disaster since Chornobyl, the unprecedented occupation and militarization of the biggest European nuclear power plant.
You sustained the most unbelievable failures that completely revealed what was underneath all those years of propagandistic bravado and eye-washing.
You turned the whole of Donbas into a depopulated desert of ruins and fields of dead bodies scattered as far as the eye can see. You senselessly slaughtered countless thousands of forcibly mobilized males of Donbas who were naive and foolish enough to trust and welcome you in 2014.
For your idiotic war that has no goal and no plan other than letting Putin sit on the throne for just another day, you raised a monster -- a giant mercenary army, the meat-grinding machine that is now strong and bold enough to turn its jaws against you.
Now you poor pieces of Nazi scum, enjoy drowning in the pile of shit of your own making.
You are done.
Ukraine was your end.
You had it coming.
And history will remember this as the most insanely idiotic war ever.
Verhandlungen mit #Putin verlangt. Was bisher ebenfalls noch keine große Aufmerksamkeit bekommen hat, dass #Prighozin durch die Einnahme vom südlichen 🇷🇺DoD HQ, jetzt alle Dokumente als Beweis hat gegen #Shoigu bzgl. KIA / WIA und sonstige Aufzeichnungen, auch alle SMO Pläne
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Fighterbomber: "Wagner has speed, it's moving through unsecured areas, our generals are unable to respond:
"The most basic and most powerful weapon that Wagner has is speed.
While our fathers-commanders decide where to strike, the column is already a hundred kilometers to the north, demolishing ridiculous cars with sand and other keeper tapes.
There are no mines on the roads, bridges are open, no orders have been brought to a bunch of units at all, and so on. It is clear that in a couple of days the commanders will tighten up, but Wagner will not wait for this moment.
The inertia of our generals, of course, was taken into account by Wagner in their plan.
And yes, I keep forgetting to say. If you think that I am for one of the parties, you are mistaken. I know perfectly well that both sides are absolutely matched for each other. Bellends on both sides. And they equally give a fuck about our problems. I am for Russia, and only for it.
But today there is no choice. Today, everyone who fights against our army is our enemy. The only defense and support of our country is our army and navy. And the enemy must be destroyed.
And after the victory, we will reward everyone according to their merits."