Posted on 07/21/2023 4:39:29 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian warlord Igor Girkin has been arrested after branding Vladimir Putin a "useless coward".
The commander turned military blogger has repeatedly criticised the tyrant - and warned the country would not survive another term under him.
Girkin has also been outspoken about the failures of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
At least eight Russian top brass have been detained or suspended in a mass purge as Putin's defence chief roots out the "bad blood" in the Kremlin.
And Girkin's wife Miroslava Reginskaya today announced on Telegram he had been detained on charges of "extremism".
She wrote: "Today, at about 11:30, representatives of the investigative committee came to us.
"I was not at home at that time. Soon, according to the concierge, they took my husband under the arms and took him away in an unknown direction.
"From friends, I managed to find out that my husband was charged under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (extremism).
"I do not know anything about the whereabouts of my husband, he did not get in touch."
Former FSB officer Girkin helped Russia annex Crimea in 2014 before organising pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine.
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This boy is in a pickle.
Girkin currently being “interrogated” by FSB at Lubyanka.
I wonder if the Cyrillic Saddam also uses a wood chipper like his protege. Someone gave Saddam the idea that was the proper way to deal with disloyalty.
Russian national Igor Strelkov, a former commander of pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, has claimed personal responsibility for unleashing the conflict in which 4,300 people have been killed since April.
"I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war," Strelkov said in an interview published Thursday with Russia's Zavtra newspaper, which espouses imperialist views.
"If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out — like in [the Ukrainian city of] Kharkiv, like in Odessa," Strelkov, who uses that nom-de-guerre meaning "Shooter" to replace his last name Girkin, was quoted as saying.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/21/russias-igor-strelkov-i-am-responsible-for-war-in-eastern-ukraine-a41598
...as brutal purge continues
Yeah, ok. No bias there.
But, but, but ... Girkin might be replaced by someone much worse! /s
LOL, couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Perhaps, but what would you call it? A friendly purge?
Seems pretty brutal from what I understand
arrested for ‘extremism’
ought to be a wakeup call here
Mostly peaceful purge?
Have any of the Kremlin propaganda sniffers here noticed that Girkin and Prighozin publicly debunked the Moscow narrative that Wagner and the Little Green Men *weren’t* in Ukraine from late 2013 specifically to stir up separatism?
And, Girkin’s been admitting it for nearly a decade?
And, Prighozin completely demolished that story a few weeks ago>
And, Putin himself has since FINALLY confirmed that yes, Wagner actually was on the Kremlin payroll all the time, so when he denied having anyone to pull out of Ukraine in support of Minsk agreements he knew he was lying?
Just pencil that information in the next time someone suggests that this would all go away if Trump could cut a deal in 24 hours with Putin.
Putin’d shake on the deal and be actively breaking it before Air Force One had wheels up.
Responding to mcgruffs
“...as brutal purge continues
Yeah, ok. No bias there.”
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