Posted on 08/15/2022 5:38:25 AM PDT by dennisw
The photo that condemned Putin's Wagner thugs: Ukraine 'blows up Russian mercenary HQ in Donbas using HIMARS' after propagandist gave away its location with picture of a street sign Sergei Sreda, a so-called 'war reporter', visited Wagner HQ in Ukraine last week
He shook hands with man who appeared to be Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin Experts used images to locate the base, and on Sunday it was confirmed to be hit It is not clear whether Prigozhin was still at the base at the time it was struck
Ukraine has destroyed the headquarters of Russia's shadowy Wagner mercenary group in Donbas after a war propagandist gave away its location online.
Sergei Sreda, a so-called 'war reporter', posted pictures online last week of himself at the base - in the city of Popasna - and shaking hands with a man who appeared to be Yevgeny Prigozhin, the oligarch dubbed 'Putin's chef' who owns Wagner.
But the pictures also included details - such as the address of a nearby bomb shelter - that allowed experts to quickly pinpoint its location. On Sunday, Russian Telegram channels with links to Wagner confirmed it had been hit.
Ukrainian media said the military had identified the location of the base from Sreda's images, which have since been deleted from his Telegram channel.
HIMARS launchers were then used to destroy the base, Ukraine said.
Images from the scene show widespread damage to the base and several casualties being evacuated from the destroyed buildings.
It is not clear whether Prigozhin was still at the base at the time it was hit. He has denied being in the photos, and claims never to have visited the base.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Russia will give up and go “poof” in a cloud of vapor...any day now.
Dmitry Outkine Utkin is recognized as one of the founders of the Wagner and decorated by Putin. Dmitry likes to appear grimacing and shirtless. In the photos we can see the Nazi tattoos on his body.
An admirer of the Third Reich, Dmitry had two coats of arms tattooed on his shoulder. One of the Schutzstaffel, better known as SS; and another with the Reichsadler, the Nazi eagle and emblem of the Third Reich.
https://litci.org/en/the-wagner-group-russian-mercenaries-in-africa/
Ukrainian are more stupiderest, they told the Russians how they located the headquarters.
The Russians will never make that kind of revealing mistake again.
Better to blame a bragging drunken Wagner "soldier", protect their means and methods, while sowing distrust in the Wagner mercenary ranks.
Lol, after the pinpoint bombardment of Wagner HQ, I think even the Russians would have figured out the cause.
The reporters name?
Geraldei Riverov
Da ya want russians to make a Hiroshima on Kyiv ?
Who is going to buy Russian energy after Putin drops nukes? Nobody. Russians can’t eat their gas. They’ll starve.
Russians are stupid, they posted a picture of Wagner HQ, with the address visible in the picture.
Idiots. Putinas debase themselves by continuing to support such a group of moronic mass murderers.
It's well known that leftist can't meme.
“HIMARS o’clock”? That meme makes zero sense. it does not rhyme. There is no play on words.
It's a play on Beer O'Clock
Freerepublic is now a low budget facsimile of “Mad Magazine”, a haven for deranged wackos.
He's a little know secret: You don't have to stay here.
No point in flat-out telling them!
*here’s
“HIMARS o’clock”? That meme makes zero sense.”
It’s artillery -doesn’t need your approval. If you’re within its targeting arc you’re on its time. Everyone else adjusts to it.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron
took me a second, first cup of coffee and all...
:-)
Just a reminder of the biggest moron on Fox News.
Classic RuSSia. Incompetent to the very end...
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