Posted on 02/23/2023 1:44:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
It has to count as one of the strangest PR campaigns in memory: using a pile of corpses to make your case to the powers that be.
That’s what Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, appears to have done this week in an unusual public appeal for ammunition for his fighters in Ukraine. And in the process, he has cast a harsh light on his open feud with Russia’s military leadership on the eve of the anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
On Wednesday, Prigozhin posted a picture on Telegram showing the bodies of several dozen slain Wagner fighters, piled unceremoniously in a courtyard. Alongside that shocking photo, he posted the image of a formal request from Wagner for more ammunition, pointing the finger of blame squarely at the Russian Ministry of Defense for squandering one of those lives.
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Already old news
Supplies were sent to Wagner, today and acknowledged
They have not been noticably hindered in their momentum
Here is the latest photo he sent out.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpkK8uPXwAEnohG?format=jpg&name=large
Shows you how Russia is a gulag nation.
A few of the bodies look too clean or “undead.” Maybe they had some troops jump into the photo to jack up the numbers?
Prigozhin has been known to troll social media.
Does not comport with the reports and videos of Wagner respectfully gathering bodies of dead UKA, placing them in coffins, and sending them back to Uke authorities
Focus on 🇺🇸
Even Lenin called Russia a “Prison of Nations”!
The Palestinian playbook...
Morally I’m on Ukraine’s side. Financially, I’m on OUR side.
Same. But Putin may be another Stalin. Zelensky wants to fight to the last Ukrainian. Maybe we should not indulge him.
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