Does Wagner take rubles or is payment required in U.S. dollars?
Even with the t-shirt, the canvas tote bag, the event membership discount card and the monthly Wagner Life magazine it doesn’t seem like it was worth it.
I guess that 6 billion that came from the states came in handy
$1 billion doesn’t buy loyalty if you betray the troops
They are mercenaries. And they have been working for Russia for years.
A billion over that period sounds light
What exactly is stunning about it?
Putin’s admission of funding the mercenary group Wagner is quite incredible!
For years Putin was mocking anyone as a conspiracy theorist if he dared to pretend Russia was funding Wagner!
Putin also mocked everyone who said that Russia was on the verge of invading Ukraine as a hysterical warmonger.
Well.. the day after, they invaded.
Putin lies like a “lying-factory” as soon as it emits a sound.
I know a country where Wagners help could be useful.
Why is that stunning? Isn’t it what everyone had understood about the Wagner group all along?
I suppose it does continue the misdirection to keep the discussion and focus on the Russia/Wagner dynamic.
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for June 25, 2023:
- Ukraine’s offensive enters its 4th week with the line of contact relatively unchanged and having suffered immense losses;
- Western governments and commentators have been increasingly calling for more “wonder weapons” and even Western military intervention as prospects dim for Ukraine;
- The Wagner mutiny in Rostov, southern Russia was an ill-conceived gamble by Wagner’s figurehead Yevgeny Prigozhin;
- The crisis resolved itself within 24 hours with Prigozhin’s exile to Belarus and Wagner forces being fully integrated into the Russian military;
- Ukraine’s offensive potential persists, however, amid a war of attrition, territorial gains at the cost of men and machines brings Ukraine closer to defeat, not victory;