VIDEOS
1. ‘Putin is losing the war’ so rebellious Prigozhin had to die | Bill Browder
Times Radio
492K subscribers
Aug 24, 2023 5:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mHZCGWc3YQ
“It’s pure standard Putin operating procedure to do plausibly deniable killings, but make make so obvious that that of course it was Putin.” Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s betrayal of Putin was ‘too embarrassing’ for him to be allowed to live, Bill Browder tells #timesradio
2. “Putin Made A Big Mistake” | Mercenaries Unleashed: The Downfall of Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
TalkTV
536K subscribers
Aug 24, 2023 5:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5vFrCuaJYk
The mysterious circumstances surrounding the downing of a plane in Moscow and the death of a top Russian figure, St. Petersburg businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, has led to speculation about the involvement of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Many believe that Putin ordered the attack due to Prigozhin’s growing power and
influence. The incident has raised questions about the future of Putin’s regime and the
impact it will have on Russia’s military capabilities.
Former British Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon says: “I think Putin’s really made a big mistake here, because you’ve got between 5,000 and 8,000 fighters. These are mercenaries, these Wagner people. Most of them are criminals, murderers and rapists taken out of Russian jails.”
ARTICLE
Foreign ministers ‘sing’ Ukraine’s national anthem on Twitter
European Pravda
Thursday, 24 August 2023, 23:59
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/24/7417004/
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, launched a flash mob on Twitter for Independence Day in which his counterparts from other countries took turns tweeting lines from the national anthem of Ukraine.
SOURCE: European Pravda
DETAILS:
Kuleba himself started the flash mob with the first line of the Ukrainian national anthem: “Ukraine’s freedom and glory have not yet perished”. It was continued by Iceland’s Foreign Minister Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir: “Upon us, fellow Ukrainians, fate shall smile once more”.
Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля@thordiskolbrun @Tsahkna @WBHoekstra @GLandsbergis @TobiasBillstrom @Bujar_O @JamesCleverly @MinColonna @ABaerbock @Antonio_Tajani @JosepBorrellF @melaniejoly @SecBlinken
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) August 24, 2023
Then Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna took up the song: “Our enemies will vanish, like dew in the sun”. Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra tweeted: “And we too shall rule, brothers, in a free land of our own”.
He was followed by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis: “We’ll lay down our souls and bodies to attain our freedom”. Next came Tobias Billström, the head of Swedish diplomacy: “And you’ll show that you, brothers, are of Cossack descent”. (Bielström was the only one who changed the words of the anthem so as not to speak on his own behalf.)
North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani tweeted: “Brothers, stand together in a bloody fight, from the Sian to the Don”, followed by UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly: “We will not allow others to rule in our native land”.
They were joined by the French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who “sang” together: “The Black Sea will smile and Grandfather Dnipro will rejoice/ For in our Ukraine, fortune shall flourish again!”
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani continued: “Our persistence and our sincere toils will be rewarded”; then EU diplomacy president Josep Borrel: “And freedom’s song will resound throughout all of Ukraine”, and Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly: “Echoing off the Carpathians and rumbling across the steppes”.
And US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded: “Ukraine’s fame and glory will be known among all nations”.
Gitanas Nauseda, President of Lithuania, and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, congratulated Ukraine on Independence Day on Sophia Square in Kyiv, delivering speeches in Ukrainian.