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Rumors on telegram that Shoigu has been detained
Wagner troops trying to take over nuclear weapons storage facility
https://t.me/sotaproject/61758
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A MACHINE TRANSLATION OF AN UNVERIFIED TELEGRAM POST.
Media and city publics report that a bridge between the village of Anna and the city of Borisoglebsk was blown up in the Voronezh region.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1672634445046726656
Video. Update on the Russian impromptu checkpoint right off the ring road in Moscow Oblast.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1672634445046726656
Video. Update on the Russian impromptu checkpoint right off the ring road in Moscow Oblast.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1592224706534440961
Allegedly Wagner SU-25 over Bakhmut
They gave mercenaries fighter jets?
Civilian livestreaming roadblock allegedly
Just tuned in as he was walking with cam hidden/covered, and his feed went dark.
It's Rostov, not Moscow.
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A MACHINE TRANSLATION OF AN UNVERIFIED TELEGRAM POST
Source: PMC "Wagner" can directly subordinate to the President of the Russian Federation - one of the conditions of the deal with Prigozhin.
According to Cooperative sources, during the negotiations between Lukashenka and Yevgeny Prigozhin, a decision was made to directly subordinate the Wagner structures to Vladimir Putin. Mercenaries are no longer required to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense.
The criminal case against Prigogine will also be dropped.
There is no official confirmation of this information yet.
What is going on? It seems highly unlikely that they will both let bygones be bygones and just get back to business as usual, minus Shoigu. No one has challenged Putin like this before, and many people have been killed for much less. Unless Prigozhin is stupid he must know this. And it seems unlikely Putin was in on this scheme to get rid of the military leadership, since he could already have done that any time.
Was Prigozhin scared off by the reports of Kadyrov's forces heading his way? Is he just stalling for time now while he tries to figure out how he and Wagner can survive?
This entire thing makes Russia and Putin look weak. I don't get why people keep assuming it's some ruse he's in on.
Because in a twisted way, russian government is extremely legalistic, so their actions - or what they would ever even contemplate of doing and not doing - is tied up into Byzantine knots.
Because they are medieval in outlook, expressed in their admiration for "shows of strength" and their obsession for "saving face".
It is said that the same document in russian is nearly twice as long as its' translation in English, because of all the adornments and nuances. As I can't get the nuances in the words being exchanged and the commentaries around it, I wonder if what they say and what they mean has more leeway and is more open to interpretation than what we can pick up from here.
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Vladimir better be Putin his affairs in order.
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1672668761198071808?t=s3aDLmE5k9YRAfMMkanO3Q&s=19
USA delays putting sanctions on Wagner Group
Actual article instead of a random tweet that contains no more information than the headline: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-wagner-prigozhin-putin/card/u-s-to-delay-new-sanctions-on-wagner-for-fear-of-siding-with-putin-j1EeoFqeLaWE2tO4m6uY
I mean, it's behind a paywall, but the part that they show to non-paying visitors is more than what is in the tweet.
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