Wagner Boss Says He’s ‘Ready to Die’ With 25,000 Fighters
www.thedailybeast.com
Moscow has announced an “anti-terrorist operation” as the mercenary group says it’s engaging in battles with the regular Russian military.

Moscow has announced an “anti-terrorist operation” as the mercenary group says it’s engaging in battles with the regular Russian military.

  • SmokumJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    This is my first comment on the first post I opened up since finding and immigrating a few minutes ago.

    Men who send other men to die for shits and giggles deserve to experience every death firsthand themselves, over and over again

    • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.worldEnglish
      04·
      1 year ago

      I too believe that every westerner who voted to support their wars of aggression to be tortured to death.

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    We all know how this is gonna end. Prigozhin marches his 25,000 troops into Moscow, faces stiff resistance and is either killed in combat or captured.

    Putin then goes full Vlad the Impaler and parades his corpse skewered on a pike for all of Russia to see, as a stark reminder of what happens to rebels.

    This is a substantial setback for the Russian war effort, but I really cannot see Prigozhin overthrowing Putin. Best thing he could have done was defect to the West instead of try to depose the figurehead.

    He is pissing on a hornet’s nest.

    • Flipht@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ultimately, it doesn’t matter who wins or loses this battle. Either way, Ukraine wins.

      Wagner was the only Russian force I regularly saw succeeding in the headlines. Without them bolstering the Russian military and in fact detracting from and wasting the resources of the Russian military, the whole house of cards is going to start falling.

    • Rusticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t ~97% of Russian military engaged in Ukraine? Where would this “stiff resistance” come from? Wagner is already 1/2 way to Moscow!

  • tl;dr bot@lemmy.worldBEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    tl;dr:

    Vladimir Putin made an extraordinary address to the nation on Saturday morning admitting that he was facing an armed insurrection led by former confidante Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries. After months of feuding between the mercenary boss and Russia’s Defense Ministry, things came to a head Friday when Prigozhin accused the Russian military of ordering a rocket strike on a camp full of his men, and vowed merciless revenge. Within hours, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced charges against Prigozhin for attempting to incite an armed rebellion, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years behind bars. Prigozhin showed no sign of backing down, instead releasing a series of audio messages via his press service late Friday in which he accused the Defense Ministry of deploying fighter jets to shoot at Wagner vehicles in the Rostov region and of firing at civilians on Russian territory. While the drama between Moscow and Prigozhin played out, Ukrainian officials announced Friday their forces had retaken eight villages from Russian control as part of their first counteroffensive.

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    • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I would say high. It appears Progozian is saying this is all Shoigu’s fault and Putin needs to replace him with Progozian. I imagine they’ll use this as an excuse to retreat from Ukraine and sacrifice Shoigu as the reason for the invasion.

      Honestly, if this gives the Ukrainian’s their land back and peace I’m all for it. I care less about the evil of the world getting their cumuppance rather than the innocent getting to live happily.

  • saucyloggins@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Let’s release a bunch of people we imprisoned and then send them to……. a mercenary group? I’m sure they’ll be veeeery loyal.

    If they’re able to pick up Russian soldiers as they go things could steam roll quickly. Otherwise it will at least be a massive distraction for Russia while Ukraine recovers territory.

  • BudZombie@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Damn the rest of the world been so afraid to do this and Wagner just swooped on in and took it… lmao

    • BathtubJoe@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I mean, a state actor making an offensive move on Russia is a very different thing than a mercenary group doing the same. I’m not sure that “afraid” is the word I would use here.