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Posted on 06/25/2026 3:41:26 PM PDT by Apparatchik
A Russian military commander has appealed directly to Vladimir Putin to threaten an armed uprising with help from top military brass if the country isn’t told the “truth” about the war.
In an Instagram video that quickly racked up millions of views Thursday, Alexander Lunin addressed the Russian president to warn of “very serious consequences” if his demands were ignored.
The 39-year-old father of two went on to say he’d been asked to “deliver a message” to Putin by unnamed military officials and members of the security services. They told him to demand a meeting with Putin at the Kremlin that would include a “live-broadcast audience,” he said, so that the country could learn the “truth” about what is going on.
“If in the near future I do not come to the Kremlin and speak live next to you, the army will turn its weapons against the Kremlin,” he said.
Lunin reportedly commanded a Russian volunteer battalion in occupied Ukraine until some time last year, when he said he was forced out for refusing orders. He told the independent media outlet Agentstvo that defense officials had come to his home in the Voronezh region to demand that he film a video appeal to Putin, apparently after seeing that he’d been using his social media platforms to air complaints from troops on the battlefield.
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The Daily Beast
Yep and Alexander Lunin is a blogger.
Would love it but seems unlikely.
Daily Beast. Riiiiiight.
I think that’s a lot more likely to happen to Z-man.
Of course. This guy is a former volunteer Russian serviceman, sending messages from his blog.
I hope the guy has a nice coffin picked out ;he is dead man walking.
Remains Not Viewable (RNV).
Vlad has pushed his people without mercy or consideration. That said, I have been hearing about some approaching point of mutiny for over the last 2 years. So, don’t spill your vodka in any fit of sudden panic.
Garbage from Daily Beast as usual.
“I think that’s a lot more likely to happen to Z-man.”
YAAP
What, more bullshat?
Shades of Utkin and Prigozhin.
Didn’t work out so well for them...
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50K+ casualties in the Russo-Japanese War caused Nick to sue for peace because the population was getting restless. Russia has so far lost just over 300K dead. Putin, cautious man that he is, may decide to pull back, try to keep half of what he’s gained for a ceasefire. If he times it during Trump’s tenure, he may get full normalization in return for a partial withdrawal. Trump wants to give it to him. Will Putin push on an open door, take half a loaf before the terms on offer get worse with the possibility of Harris in 2029?
Though there had been popular support for the war among the Russian public following the Japanese attack at Port Arthur in 1904, that popular support soon turned to discontent after suffering multiple defeats at the hands of the Japanese forces. For many Russians, the immediate shock of unexpected humiliation at the hands of Japan caused the conflict to be viewed as a metaphor for the shortcomings of the Romanov autocracy.[108] This discontent added fuel to the simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an event Nicholas II had hoped to avoid by taking intransigent negotiating stances. To quell the uprising, Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto, which included only limited reforms such as the Duma and failed to address the societal problems of Russia at the time.[109] Twelve years later, that discontent would boil over into the February Revolution of 1917.
In Poland, which Russia partitioned in the late 18th century, and where Russian rule already caused two major uprisings, the population was so restless that an army of 250,000–300,000 – larger than the one facing the Japanese – had to be stationed to put down the unrest.[110] Russia had mobilized thousands of Polish reservists during the war with Japan, contributing to unrest. Contemporary reports found that some Poles preferred death over fighting the Japanese for Russia.[111]
Some political leaders of the Polish insurrection movement (in particular, Józef Piłsudski and Roman Dmowski) sent emissaries to Japan to collaborate on sabotage and intelligence gathering within the Russian Empire and even plan a Japanese-aided uprising,[112][113][114] but Japan never took these Polish requests seriously.[114]]
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