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;
A Kremlin stooge will replace Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Russia has now formally admitted that Wagner is an arm of the Russian government, and always has been.
That means that the many legal claims against Wagner for its myriad war crimes around the world are now recoverable from Russian government assets.
Putin played Biden and the CIA brilliantly
bidness is bidness...