For sure Putin reneged on whatever deal was struck, its just remarkable that Prigorzhin ever thought he wouldnt and that many in the west are still calling for a deal with Putin.
I personally think the chances of Wagner success now are much much less. Then they had surprise, they had heavy...
Very astute observation! I genuinely wondered the same, as Prigorzhin was the one allegedly leading the disinfo ops, troll farms and interference in 2016.
He'd have inside knowledge on that and no doubt truth about Russian ops inside Donbass, (of which Prigorzhin Was remarkably honest before...
Who knows how it might pan out, totally concur that however much anger is in Wagner and the nationalist movement (which includes loads that follow Girkin too), there's little realistic chance of a full on frontal assault of the kremlin any time soon.....
That said there's loads of special...
Ukrainian independence day today.
And whilst NSC is universally pro Ukraine, I don't think there's been many wars in my lifetime with such clear lines of good v evil. With such inspiration and courage v such sickening atrocity and cowardice.
If you have 12 mins, Zelensky independence day...
It wasn't Ukraine imho. Multiple witness accounts of some form of missile, and 2 explosions...... second being aircraft.... for Ukraine to know all the people on aircraft, to get surface to Air missile into Russia and shoot down is beyond far fetched, though I won't be surprised if that's the...
Dimitry Utkin was on board too, the former security services neo nazi whose call sign is Wagner, and where name comes from. Utkin was the Wagner military commander.
Putin has tried to totally decapitate Wagner, its leader and military commander in one hit.
Just waiting for him to blame the...
Cristo Grozev of Bellingcat said 6 months guaranteed earlier in August, 6 weeks wouldve covered it.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/12/7415264/
Steele made crucial save first half when their fella was through. Excellent distribution with his feet and great save just before their goal.
Thought he was really good today.