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Russian warlord’s feud with Putin’s generals explodes into the open with gruesome PR campaign
CNN ^ | Thu February 23, 2023 | Nathan Hodge

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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TOPICS: Russia
KEYWORDS: 0000asplanned; notourwar; wagne4; wagner; zeepershappy

1 posted on 02/23/2023 1:44:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Already old news
Supplies were sent to Wagner, today and acknowledged
They have not been noticably hindered in their momentum


2 posted on 02/23/2023 1:48:12 PM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Here is the latest photo he sent out.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpkK8uPXwAEnohG?format=jpg&name=large


3 posted on 02/23/2023 1:57:30 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

Shows you how Russia is a gulag nation.


4 posted on 02/23/2023 1:58:40 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

A few of the bodies look too clean or “undead.” Maybe they had some troops jump into the photo to jack up the numbers?


5 posted on 02/23/2023 2:03:30 PM PST by rexthecat
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To: rexthecat

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


6 posted on 02/23/2023 2:07:30 PM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Focus on 🇺🇸


7 posted on 02/23/2023 2:11:12 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: MinorityRepublican

Even Lenin called Russia a “Prison of Nations”!


8 posted on 02/23/2023 2:41:28 PM PST by Reily
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To: rexthecat

The Palestinian playbook...


9 posted on 02/23/2023 3:18:34 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: JonPreston

Morally I’m on Ukraine’s side. Financially, I’m on OUR side.


10 posted on 02/23/2023 3:37:20 PM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: telescope115
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.

11 posted on 02/23/2023 3:43:59 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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