Posted on 06/24/2023 12:05:05 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has confirmed he has ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to their field camps in Ukraine to avoid shedding Russian blood.
'We are turning back our columns and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan,' an audio message on his Telegram feed said after a meeting between Prigozhin and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
An uneasy calm has now prevailed on the streets of Moscow in a city that had been preparing for war. The capital had braced for the arrival of forces from the Wagner Group, a private army led by Prigozhin that has been fighting alongside regular Russian troops in Ukraine, by erecting checkpoints with armored vehicles and troops on the city's southern edge. Red Square was shut down, and the mayor urged motorists to stay off some roads.
But Prigozhin announced that while his men were just 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Moscow, he decided to turn them back to avoid 'shedding Russian blood.'
He did not say whether the Kremlin has responded to his demand to oust Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin.
The shock announcement follows a statement from the office of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko saying that he had negotiated a deal with Prigozhin after previously discussing the issue with Putin.
Prigozhin has accepted Lukashenko's offer to halt the Wagner group's advance and further steps to de-escalate the tensions, Lukashenko's office said, adding that the proposed settlement contains security guarantees for Wagner troops. It did not elaborate.
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Absolute and total BS charges. Nothing illegal about making online personas, nothing illegal about propaganda (free speech), laughable claims about Russian electoral interference and bottom line all done form Russia. America interferes with elections all over the planet INCLUDING ITS OWN!
Even if true the FBI has zero jurisdiction over a Russian citizen in Russia. America does not rule the world and American law has no rights outside America. Claims of oh he did it on American server space are RIDICULOUS a computer server is not sovereign soil nor is data a physical presence. That’s simply an attempt to extend American power infinitely to the entire globe.
Progozhin is a terrorist. America is a terrorist state. It’s just the big terrorist chasing the little one
It took Wagner nine months to capture Bakhmut from Ukraine, and three hours to take Rostov-on-Don, which has 15 times the population, from Russia — and about six hours to roll on to Voronezh, which is just short of half way to Moscow, without significant opposition.
Wagner was never going to defeat the balance of the Russian Federation’s armed forces. The question was did they have to? After a number of hours of looking the other way, waiting for express orders, and suffering from bad cell phone reception that kept Moscow from getting in touch with them, the Russian Armed Forces leadership decided that there had not been a preference cascade against Putin (which they were prepared to join), so Putin would win, and there was a preference cascade in favor of Putin, with the fence sitters declaring their loyalty.
It’s a win for Putin: he was not driven into exile, much less Ceaușescued. But everyone knows that Prigozhin got halfway to Moscow while those Generals whose assurances of loyalty he is accepting did nothing to stop him.
Your boyfriend is moving to Belarus, he doesn’t like seeing blood shed, especially his own lol
You are a woman, right? Is he your type?
I’m thinking this whole thing might have been a ploy by Putin to root out those who might be disloyal to him. Have Wagner attempt a coup and then see how the generals and secret service react to it. Whatever its intent it was pretty bizarre.
An Allegra post transistioned the frog from male to female in one fell swoop...
That’s some SERIOUS Re-Animating.
I figure she’s gotta be, with all of those exclamation points. 😂🤣
And just like that, Wagner PMC goes from terrorist organization to freedom fighters ... a little maskirovka for the paranoids
Most of the time, when the expert class says “my hypothesis” it means they are about to tell you what they *want* to happen.
It’s really funny watching the Ukrainian side instantly pivot from - “Wagner was destroyed with mass casualties in Bakhmut” - to - “Wagner was powerful enough to topple the Russian state.”
Quite true. The first clue that a diversion is happening is disagreement with context. Hypothesis in science really has nothing to do with politics. It is a malappropism where the speaker seeks to gain authoritativeness.
Prigozhin went to Belarus though. That’ who I was talking about. But I am surprised they went back without Prigozhin. They will be kind of leaderless I would think.
Might integrate them into the Russian army but likey send them to Africa or Syria.
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