https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/putin-caught-in-his-own-trap/674524/
Propagandists are displeased with Putin's decision to let Prigozhin go
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1673179167293046790
Meanwhile in Russia: even the obedient state TV propagandists were flabbergasted by Putin's decision to let Yevgeny Prigozhin stay alive, much less to walk free after committing his mini-mutiny.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1673051994251034626
Who will pay Prigozhin now?
Prigozhin's private army existed thanks to Putin's dirty money.
For the money from selling oil, gas, timber, metals, gold and other resources of Russia to the West and to the East.
Yesterday, Russian media reported that during searches in the offices of the PMCs, colossal amounts of cash were found - 4 billion rubles, (about $50 million).
Prigozhin immediately admitted that this was money of the PMC and that it was intended for paying the so-called "coffin" money - payments to the relatives of killed mercenaries.
"Wagner PMC has existed for 10 years using cash only. When we were working in Africa, in Ukraine and in other countries, when America was a nightmare, everyone was satisfied with cash. And now they came with searches," Prigozhing commented.
Let's talk about the dirty economy of Wagner PMC.
Using simple arithmetic calculations, multiplying the declared number of mercenaries in the PMC - 50,000 people, by their average payment for a bloody contract - RUB 240,000, we get the amount of $150 million a month. And this amount does not include any other costs for the maintenance of Prigogzhin's private army.
According to my rough estimates, maintaining a private Wagner army cost Putin between $250 million and $350 million in cash per month.
It is possible that one of the reasons that prompted Prigozhin to revolt against Putin was the conflict over the verification of how he spent more than $2 billion received from Putin and his oligarchs during the 15 months of war.
We still do not know the reasons why Prigozhin stopped his march on Moscow by his mercenaries. Neither he, nor Putin, nor Lukashenko made a single public statement after the talks.
But I have several questions:
1. Will Putin, after Prigozhin's rebellion, finance his PMC in the same way as before? I highly doubt it! And if not, then where will Prigozhin get $250 million per month to maintain PMCs?
2. Will Prigozhin now be provided with shells, cartridges, missiles - after his mercenaries shot down helicopters and a Russian plane yesterday with the same missiles? I don't think so!
3. Will the Russian military, who until this moment idolized Prigozhin as a real military leader, forgive him the Russian pilots and officers killed by him? I think that he lost their trust, both after the murders and after a cheap provocation about the alleged shelling of the rear camp of the PMC, staged by Prigozhin himself as a pretext for rebellion.
4. How will Prigozhin withstand the powerful blow of Kremlin propaganda? Already last night it was clearly visible how quickly and clearly the position of Kremlin propaganda in relation to the Wagner PMC has changed. From yesterday's heroes, they quickly began to turn into traitors, rebels, and murderers of valiant pilots. A few more weeks and instead of Prigozhin and his accomplices, instead of the Wagnerites "heroes of Russia", propaganda will show them as a bunch of scoundrels, rebels and murderers - which, in fact, they are.
Therefore, future events look obvious to me - yesterday Prigozhin lost his chance to seize power in Russia.
There will most likely not be a second campaign against Moscow, since Wagner PMC will slowly collapse through a gradual reduction in funding for salaries to mercenaries, through contradictions between those who are 100% loyal to Prigozhin and who feel deceived and thrown into the furnace of the ambitions of the bloody Bakhmut butcher.
And Ukraine only benefited from this failed rebellion, as fascist Russia became even weaker - and that's good news!
Experts react: What Russia?s Wagner Group rebellion means for Putin, Ukraine, China, and more
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react/prigozhin-rebellion/
Putin has only himself to blame as infighting engulfs Kremlin insiders | If Wagner is no longer a party, russia looses it's spearhead force to fight Ukraine, that;s a good outcome from this "coup"
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/24/europe/putin-rebellion-wagner-prigozhin-analysis-intl/index.html
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672689527515693057
So, the main "hero" of the day is Lukashenko - the savior of Russia.
No one saw or heard anything from Shoigu and Gerasimov today.
Putin looked cowardly and pathetic.
I can't wait to hear the propagandists tomorrow. How will they explain all this?
https://twitter.com/obk/status/1672692670878085121
Ondertussen vertrekt Wagner uit Rostov onder luid applaus. Tijd voor weer een Russisch gezegde: Ещё не вечер, het is nog geen avond?
Meanwhile, Wagner leaves Rostov to loud applause. Time for another Russian proverb: Ещё не вечер, it is not evening yet?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/24/spitting-on-soldiers-graves-russians-react-to-wagner-mutiny
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gas-stay-decades-fossil-fuel-010000495.html
https://internationalsocialist.net/en/2023/06/new-cold-war-3
https://charter97.org/en/news/2023/6/23/553100/
Oleh Bilokolos: U.S. Warned Presumptuous ?Hotheads? In Minsk And Moscow
OLEH BILOKOLOS
The answer to provocations will be devastating.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672658620671041540
Prigozhin says it's over:
"They were going to dismantle PMC Wagner. We came out on 23 June to the March of Justice. In a day, we walked to nearly 200km away from Moscow. In this time, we did not spill a single drop of blood of our fighters. Now, the moment has come when blood may spill. That?s why, understanding the responsibility for spilling Russian blood on one of the sides, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to the plan."
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1672657010985189376
A tentative deal was supposedly reached, state media reports.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672656332397084673
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Lukashenko reported he conducted negotiations with Prigozhin on Putin's request.
Prigozhin allegedly accepted Lukashenko's offer to stop movement of Wagner's mercenaries and take further steps to de-escalate tension - Pul Pervogo Telegram channel:
"At the moment, there is an absolutely advantageous and acceptable option of the denouement of the situation on the table, with security guarantees for the Wagner PMC fighters.
As previously reported, also during today the President of Belarus held two meetings with the security bloc of the country on the situation," reported on Telegram channel, close to Lukashenko's press service.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/24/live-wagner-chief-rebels-against-military-leadership-a81618
?This is a serious blow to the authority of the country, and to the authority of the president... So this is a very bad symptom" - Russian propagandists allow themselves to be critical towards Putin.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672857740920668160
https://youtu.be/Q0HKQSvXKs4
Top Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was shaken but relieved by the conclusion of Yevgeny Prigozhin's whirlwind mutiny. He called for more internal repressions, as well as intensified strikes against Ukraine and beyond, using Wagner fighters.
https://youtu.be/lXHHzxS5yAw
Propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was disturbed by the gross vulnerabilities Prigozhin's attempted coup had revealed. He is already planning for when ? not if ? something like this happens again, rattled by the realization that Russia was totally unprepared.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/06/24/prigozhin-stops-wagner-forces-200-km-away-from-moscow-says-they-return-to-field-camps/
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/06/24/ukraine-starts-offensive-in-several-eastern-directions-at-once-defense-ministry/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18670
Russians React to Prigozhin?s Mutiny
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/18687
OPINION: What Should be Done with Ukraine and Russia-Muscovy: Veteran Canadian Diplomat Reflects Former Canadian diplomat argues the case for admitting Ukraine to NATO and renaming Russia as Muscovy.
I agree fully, naming back russia as Moscovia is putting history right. Kyvian/UKraine-Rus is the motherland, not Moscovia the fatherland. Moscow was founded by Kyiv in 1147, while Kyiv itself dates from 482....Map of Poland and Hungary by Sebastian Munster, 1540. The map shows ?Russia? for Ukraine, ?Russia Alba? for Belarus, while the Moscow Princedom is called ?Moscovia.?
http://www.lithuanianmaps.com/images/1540_munster_polonia_et_ungaria_XV_nova_tabula_davidrumsey.jpg
https://charter97.org/ru/news/2023/6/24/553312/
Armed Forces of Ukraine defeated the bridgehead of the invaders near Bakhmut
The bridgehead on the western bank of the Seversky Donets-Donbass channel has been completely cleared of the Russians.
https://charter97.org/ru/news/2023/6/25/553323/
Ukrainian Armed Forces crossed the Dnieper near the Antonovsky bridge The Ukrainian military managed to attack unexpectedly and gain a foothold in new positions.
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/18692
Prigozhin has caused a huge stir with his military rebellion but at the end of the day he should be remembered for exposing the lies on which Russia?s invasion of Ukraine was based.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18680
Explained: What we Know About Russia's Wagner Rebellion
What was Prigozhin's short-lived military revolt in Russia all about?
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18683
UN Defunct as Peace-making Organization Says Ukraine's Former Envoy Top Ukrainian diplomat says that both the UN system and international law have become ineffective concerning the resolution of conflicts and prevention of war. |
Obvious since biggest warmongers USA, russia , china have veto in UNSC
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18688
Moscow Security Measures Still in Place After Wagner Mutiny
Moscow still nervous and on alert after Saturday?s Russian military revolt drama.
https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/18618
Wagner Boss questions the widely circulated Russian claims of 60 destroyed Leopards and reveals the truth of the advancements made by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
https://kyivindependent.com/governor-wagner-militants-leaving-southern/
https://kyivindependent.com/waclaw-radziwinowicz-has-putin-lost-russia/
https://kyivindependent.com/isw-lukashenko-deal-short-term-fix-not-stable-solution/
https://kyivindependent.com/media-russian-law-enforcement-finds-gold-bars/
https://english.nv.ua/nation/zaporizhzhya-npp-sabotage-could-contaminate-black-sea-basin-with-radioactivity-expert-says-50334364.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/wagner-troops-get-close-to-warehouse-with-nuclear-weapons-in-voronezh-oblast-50334295.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/kadyrov-s-units-suddenly-withdraw-from-maryinka-ukrainian-military-says-50334350.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/putin-reportedly-ordered-to-kill-prigozhin-50334294.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-s-military-intelligence-comments-on-prigozhin-s-rebellion-50334273.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/explosive-dropped-on-russian-industrial-facility-in-belgorod-oblast-50334345.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/social-media-users-share-videos-of-fights-between-wagner-and-government-troops-50334271.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-providers-blocked-google-news-amid-prigozhin-armed-rebellion-50334371.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/mass-riots-by-prisoners-in-moscow-s-remand-prisons-reported-50334283.html
https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-an-24-shot-down-in-voronezh-oblast-50334260.html
https://www.intellinews.com/bulgaria-s-pro-russian-president-pivots-towards-nato-after-wagner-rebellion-in-russia-282728/
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672936813646757895
"The coup was being prepared for eight months and all of Prigozhin's publicity was aimed at preparing it" - GULAGU NET
GULAGU NET published a list of the National Guard, Federal Security Service and Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation units that have partially or fully moved over to Prigozhin's side.
A description of what is happening was also provided:
This special operation was being prepared and developed over a period of more than eight months. Surovikin and Alexeyev not only knew but were also involved and verbally instructed some commanders not to offer armed resistance. That is why they were urgently taken under control and forced to make a video-recorded appeal addressed to Prigozhin. Later, when taking over the headquarters of the Southern Military District of the MoD, Alexeyev uttered an important phrase to Prigozhin's demand of giving them Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov: "Yes, take him away". They were ready to hand over their commander (superior officers) to the rebels. This is a fact of betrayal, a decision on which is about to be made.
This special operation involved former commanders and fighters of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, 2nd and 15th GRU brigades of Wagner PMC (under the command of Utkin), who had previously participated in special operations on the territory of foreign countries, primarily to capture customs posts, communication points, local army units and strategic weapons.
Formally, Yevgeny Prigozhin himself was at the headquarters of the Southern Military District of the MoD, and did not physically move from there, holding talks with the Deputy Minister of Defense and giving orders to detain or capture anything, unlike Utkin, Kuznetsov and other PMC commanders, and neither Putin, nor Peskov promised them immunity and non-prosecution. By the end of the year, they will be detained or liquidated.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672945626395426817
Complete disappointment in Prigozhin:
Yesterday, convicts from Russian Storm Z unit publicly supported Prigozhin's march on Moscow.
One day later, they recorded another video. This time, Storm Z accused Prigozhin of turning around and halting his march.
Putin's power in question even after Wagner revolt ends
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=7157448834270713
The greatest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin since he came to power in 1999 fizzled out after rebellious mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin abruptly reached a deal with the Kremlin, brokered by Belarus, and retreated just a day after ordering his troops to march on Moscow.
Expert: Deal between Kremlin and Wagner 'clearly driven by Putin' | NewsNation Prime
NewsNation political analyst Mick Mulvaney joins "NewsNation Prime" to discuss the deal brokered between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Wagner group after the military contractor's rebellious march on Moscow.
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=787533926364918
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