VIDEOS
1. Ukrainian Special Forces Crossed the Dnieper! | Russian Major Smoked Carelessly! | Ukraine Update
Artur Rehi
629K subscribers
6-16-2023 12:30 p.m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRMAWWSNkx8
2. Battle for Loyalty: Prigozhin vs. Shoigu - Conflict Among Russian Occupying Forces
UATV English
392K subscribers
Jun 16, 2023 4:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hoeW7GmCXw
The split in the ranks of the Russian occupiers is intensifying. Prigozhin’s press service published an audio recording in which the founder of the Wagner PMC claims that the Russian Defense Ministry twice tried to physically destroy his militants. Once in Syria, and the second - in Bakhmut.
In addition, Prigozhin said that his mercenaries would not sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense, contrary to Shoigu’s order and Putin’s statement. According to Prigozhin, the PMC ‘does not want to go down the path of shame again,’ and, in his opinion, the Wagnerites should receive social guarantees from the state automatically.
About the conflict between the Ministry of Defense and Prigozhin - in our story.
ARTICLE
Putin’s imagination conjures up NATO’s involvement in Ukraine’s war, he threatens to strike air bases outside of Ukraine
European Pravda
Friday, 16 June 2023, 18:07
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/16/7407196/
On Friday 16 June, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that Russia could strike air bases outside Ukraine if F-16 fighter jets intended to be used in the war were based there.
SOURCE: Putin said this at the St Petersburg Economic Forum, reports European Pravda
DETAILS: According to the Russian president, “NATO, of course, is getting involved in the war in Ukraine,” because it continues to help Ukraine with military equipment, and now “the option of supplying aircraft is being considered”.
QUOTE: “Tanks are burning, several tanks have been destroyed, including the Leopard... They’re burning. So will the F-16s. There is no doubt,” Putin said.
“But if these [jets – ed.] are located at air bases outside of Ukraine, and are used in hostilities, we will have to look at how we are affected and where we are affected by the means used in hostilities against us,” the Russian president added.
He said this poses a “serious danger of further drawing NATO into this armed conflict.”
Earlier, after a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Brussels, Reznikov said that he had received promises from the allies to start exercises for Ukrainian pilots on Western fighters.
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said the preparation of a training plan for Ukrainian pilots has made progress, although it will still take some time.