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I'm kind of curious him this is going down in lemmygrad...
Out of the loop. What happened? Have Russians started fighting Putin?
Been following it since yesterday when it kicked off. Events so far:
- Wagner claimed that russian army shelled their base yesterday. The verdict is still open on that one.
- Supposedly this action, plus previous grievances, made ️Prigozhin decide to leave ukraine and enter Rostov in Russia. Rostov is a oblast capital and major military HQ for the invasion forces.
- The claimed mission was to punish the ministry of defence.
- Wagner captured Rostov with little to no resistance. And also drive towards Voronezh, another oblast capital.
- While army personnel are ordered to block wagner, they seem to either join them or let them pass without a fight at nearly all points.
- Russian air forces did engage wagner, and wagner seem to have downed several aircraft.
- Wagner also enter Voronezh unopposed, or bypass it on their way to moscow.
- Putin declares this a rebellion and treason, ask soldiers not to join wagner, and will respond with military action.
- ️Prigozhin and wagner bloggers seem to reject putin and some are now starting to call it a civil war. Possibilities of negotiation are looking very unlikely now.
- Russian helicopters are bombing oil/fuel depots in Voronezh to prevent wagner from using them. As well as threatening to blow bridges to moscow to slow wagner's advance.
Honestly this couldn’t get any better, yeah the dude is an absolute psycho but hopefully they just take each other out.
Yes Russians (Wagner Mercenaries) have started fighting the Russian Army.
The leader of the Wagner Group, Prigozhin says his fight is against Russian defense leadership. He has not openly said anything against Putin at least from what I've seen.
However, don't mistake this guy for some sort of "freedom fighter" he is still very much in support of the invasion of Ukraine and just thinks the Russian defense leadership has lost its focus and is using the conflict mostly for career advancement.
Man it must sucks to be Russians when all leaders want war
Prigozhin, head of Wagner, turned on Putin/Russia. It's basically an active coup.
I've been saving video clips, imgs, and articles here: https://mega.nz/folder/9ilWTCgQ#zPr9993Q3Hc3A26ptpRqug
My gut reaction is “great, what’s bad for Russia is good for Ukraine” but I guess you have to be careful what you wish for.
Hopefully Ukraine can exploit this and get their territory back.
This is quite the own-goal on Putin's part.
I don't like the direction things are going in Russia as the warlord Prigozhin could be eyeing control of Russia or part of it, but it does take pressure off of Ukraine.
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