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Did Putin Flee Moscow During Coup Attempt?
New York sun ^ | 26th June 2023 | James Brooke

Posted on 06/26/2023 9:26:40 PM PDT by Cronos

As a two-mile-long convoy of military mutineers neared Moscow Saturday, a Russian presidential plane took off from the capital at 2:15 p.m. local time. It flew in the direction of President Putin’s native St. Petersburg until disappearing from radar at 3:06 p.m., according to Flight Radar.

“Putin is working at the Kremlin,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

A Russian air force attack on the mutineers was a fiasco. Soldiers from the Wagner mercenary group shot down six helicopters and one Ilyushin IL-18 airborne command center. The combined shootdowns killed 30 Russian airmen. Debris from one falling helicopter set ablaze the oil depot of Voronezh.

“There has not been such a tragedy in the history of our aviation for a long time,” a Russian TV presenter, Vladimir Solovyov, lamented Saturday night. “How many aircraft have we lost today? What is this?”

In Voronezh, the “Wagnerites” took control of local military facilities. the 277th Parachute Regiment switched sides.

“I ask everyone to get out of our way,” Prigozhin boomed

...Normally, Moscow would have been protected by the 4th Guards Tank Division, a unit set up by Stalin to guard the capital against western invaders. Before Putin’s attack on Ukraine last year, this unit had about 225 tanks and 300 armored personnel carriers. They suffered 80 percent losses in the Ukraine war, largely in Kharkiv and Luhansk. The British Defense Ministry has estimated it will take years to rebuild the division.

To defend the Moscow region without tanks, local authorities blocked highways with school buses and dump trucks, and started to dig up asphalt with excavators. Bridges over the Oka River were blockaded. Inside Moscow, more blockades were erected and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin imposed a “counter-terrorist regime.” Panic spread among some residents and all air tickets out of Moscow were sold out by Saturday night,

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: 10percent4thebigguy; bidensukrainebribes; demsunitedforukraine; ftxdonationstodems; jamesbrooke; prigozhin; putin; russia; ukraine
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To: kiryandil
There are MANY such accounts - the majority of which are SUDDEN supporters of The Ukraine AND have TDS!!!
41 posted on 06/27/2023 3:51:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va; Timber Rattler
There are MANY such accounts - the majority of which are SUDDEN supporters of The Ukraine AND have TDS!!!

The Timber Toddler waited FIVE YEARS to return to Free Republic after President Donald Trump dunked the heads of his neocon RINO heroes in the toilet for their obligatory swirlies.

42 posted on 06/27/2023 3:54:44 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

You’re deflecting.


43 posted on 06/27/2023 3:56:52 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: central_va
Just an FYI - Mumsie got this meme yanked from one of her Slobber Ukie threads last evening:

I suspect she's a closet Biden supporter on FR.

44 posted on 06/27/2023 3:57:21 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: hardspunned
hardspunned cancelled Ukrainian elections indefinitely

you do realize that's a lie, right?

The next Ukrainian presidential election shall be held, per the Constitution of Ukraine, on the last Sunday of March. 2024 - unless you Russians are still in Ukraine

Like any country, you don't hold elections when your country has been invaded

45 posted on 06/27/2023 3:57:24 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Timber Rattler
I don't have multi-year "gaps" in my posting history, Toddler.

Unlike many of your Ukie-loving pals.

46 posted on 06/27/2023 3:59:04 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Cronos
Is this the best thing you can come up with? Biden spent the weekend at Camp David instead of his Delaware beachfront home. How's that Ukrainian offensive going? Or has it not started yet? Prigozhin hasn't been seen in days. Maybe he has already assumed room temperature.
47 posted on 06/27/2023 3:59:25 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Cronos

There are also some disturbing videos out on Telegram showing Russian soldiers who expressed support for Wagner’s run on Moscow getting executed, both being shot and having their throats slit. Pretty gruesome retribution.


48 posted on 06/27/2023 3:59:26 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Cronos

“Like any country, you don’t hold elections when your country has been invaded“

Maybe in your woke, pervo globalist stooge world you don’t hold elections in the 90% of your country where there are no invaders.


49 posted on 06/27/2023 4:10:33 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: McGruff

Biden isn’t leading a country fighting in the war in Ukraine.

Putin was under threat by Prigozhin and fled.


50 posted on 06/27/2023 4:17:55 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

I’m so glad I have you to apply your media masters’ feeding trough filter for me. This allows me know what information has the Western media/government stamp of disinfo on it. Is your man Prigozhin in Moscow yet? Too bad you slept in during the “civil war”. You could have corrected all the lies your media handlers were slinging around for the 12 hours of Putin’s fall. When is Putin going to return from his flight to asylum?


51 posted on 06/27/2023 4:20:54 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Cronos

The convoy never “neared” Moscow”


52 posted on 06/27/2023 4:34:31 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: bert
bert The convoy never “neared” Moscow”

The map shows you to be wrong


53 posted on 06/27/2023 5:07:44 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: hardspunned
hardspunned Other than a handful of hired murderers (most likely hired killers on the West’s payroll), the nation and military rallied to Putin.

you do realize that's a lie, right?

Wagner, filled with criminals, walked into Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh and faced zero resistance.

In fact they were welcomed by the military there and some joined them on their "march" to Moscow

Instead of admitting your error, you bluster. Why?

54 posted on 06/27/2023 5:08:48 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

If he didn’t flee, the liberals would say he was stupid to stay around.

If he does flee, the liberal will call him a coward.

Liberals are bigots.


55 posted on 06/27/2023 5:20:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Cronos

standard security measure.

think GW during 9-11. they had him flying everywhere until they had it under control.


56 posted on 06/27/2023 5:25:20 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: kiryandil
"The original account holder should have used a less crackable password."

Thank you for letting us know.

57 posted on 06/27/2023 6:58:00 AM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: Cronos; All

“Kiry The original account holder should have used a less crackable password”

“An admission, Kiry?”

>>>>>>>>>

Yes I think his nerves a very fragile at the moment. :) :)


58 posted on 06/27/2023 7:15:29 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: 1of10

—”So ...one step closer to testicle newks ehh?”

How would they be used?
Pls, tell us your strategy.

Do not overlook that business is slow for Russia’s leading ally, China.
And Xi told Putin not to do it, it would be VERY bad for China’s sales.

And if used what size and how many targets?


59 posted on 06/27/2023 7:16:00 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: hardspunned; Cronos; Widget Jr; sten; CodeToad; bert; Timber Rattler; McGruff; kiryandil; ...

hardspunned said:

“Maybe in your woke, pervo globalist stooge...”

>>>>>>>

Concerning what you just said to someone here on FR, let me add this:

“Globohomo” stands for all the rape going on between Russian soldiers and in Russian prisons. It’s a well-known huge problem in Russia, it has been going on for ever, and is getting worse. No country in the world, except Russia, has this truly disturbing problem on such a massive scale. It’s a Russian systemic problem.

Russia also suffers from out-of-control GLOBALISM, since they were forced to sell their soul to big Government China. They even made an ALLIANCE with CHINA! China being the world’s headquarters for the globalist agenda.

Talk about GLOBALISM! Russia is now drowning in it.

And... may our Ukrainian allies win over absolute evil : The Russian deep-staters in the Kremlin.


60 posted on 06/27/2023 8:00:14 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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