Posted on 02/28/2022 8:10:18 PM PST by Mariner
A Russian military convoy that was outside of Ivankiv, Ukraine, on Sunday has since made it to the outskirts of Kyiv, satellite images show.
On Sunday, the convoy was roughly 40 miles northwest of the Ukrainian capital, according to images provided by Maxar Technologies.
Maxar said that roughly 17 miles of roadway is chocked full of the convoy, which consists of armored vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and other logistical vehicles.
The private US company said the convoy was located on the T-1011 highway at Antonov air base around 11:11 a.m local time.
Antonov is roughly 17 miles from the center of the Ukrainian capital.
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LOL!
Either a storm in Telegram or something real, we’ll find out soon.
This video of Russian propagandist Solovyev seems appropriate for tonight.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672364115417788418
General “Armageddon” Surovikin published a video calling Wagner to “obey the Supreme Commander”.
“I have just returned by the order of the Ministry of Defence from the zero line, where our forces, our commanders, our soldiers, volunteers carry out the objective, fighting the superior enemy forces to death, take casualties, but stand on their positions. I appeal to the leadership, commanders and fighters of PMC Wagner: Together with you, we walked a difficult path. Together with you, we fought, we took risks, we took losses, but overcome together. We are of the same blood. We are warriors.
I call on you to stop. The enemy is waiting for our internal political situation to aggravate. We shouldn’t play into the enemy’s hand in this difficult time for the country.” It needs to be done before it’s too late: to obey the will and order of the people-elected President of the Russian Federation. Stop the columns, and return them to their permanent positions and places of concentration.
To solve all problems with civil means only under the leadership of the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces. He is being slowly joined by other high-ranking commanders of the Russian army in similar videos.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672357331663765504
WAGNER GROUP®
🎼 The situation around PMC “Wagner” is becoming more complicated. The National Guard was ordered to intensify the opposition to the fighters of the “orchestra”. At the same time, the officers refuse to speak out against the “musicians,” according to the military commander Anna Dolgareva.
“We will not fight against Wagner. Because they came out of the same hell we were in. We will go where we are told, but we will not fight against Wagner PMC. I won’t lead the guys against Wagner, ”the military correspondent quoted the words of an officer of the Russian Guard! !!
The most important objects of Moscow are taken under enhanced protection, security measures in the capital have been strengthened. This was reported to TASS by law enforcement agencies. “Security measures have been strengthened in Moscow, all the most important facilities, state authorities and transport infrastructure facilities have been taken under enhanced protection,” the source said. According to him, the OMON and SOBR units of the Russian Guard have been alerted.
Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63
Don’t wonder what will happen if Russia collapses. It already did! Years ago. It’s not a state, it’s a mafia front with factions fighting each other for money, resources, and power.
Whatever is happening now, it was already clear Putin wasn’t able to control every faction or to keep the infighting quiet or at least non-violent the way he mostly could before. The pointing fingers among Russian factions will increasingly be on triggers as Ukrainian victories multiply. The towers of lies will collapse and new, smaller ones built. Defeat will be denied, then blamed on rivals, then fake victory declared by the survivors.
Whoever keeps control, Putin or anyone else, will be faced with threats & instability. It is vital for the free world not to offer any lifelines to murderers. We do not expect democracy and liberty to suddenly flourish, but there can be no deals with Russian war criminals.
There will be attempts to use internal conflict as pretext for ceasefires, sanctions relief, and other charades to give Russia time to regroup and reload while occupying Ukrainian territory & continuing the terror. No. Do not let whatever mafia show that is now out in the open in Russia distract from the goal of Ukrainian victory. It is time to accelerate, not hesitate. If you agree that “let them all lose” in Russia is ideal, the road to that is victory. Glory to Ukraine.
PS Please keep in mind that even more than usual, everything coming out of the Kremlin, and Russian generally, will be lies. It’s instinctive and about control. Such people would not admit they were drowning to a lifeguard.
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1672361468602335238
WAGNER GROUP®
Today’s attempt by Shoigu to destroy PMC “Wagner” again ended in failure.
There have been many attempts:
▪️Airstrike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the positions of musicians in the Palmyra region, where 3 fighters died, and Hero of Russia Andrei Bogatov lost his arm;
▪️the tragic events in Khsham, when, on the orders of Shoigu, the Wagner PMC was put under attack by American aircraft;
▪️artificially created “shell hunger” in the midst of the Bakhmut meat grinder;
▪️mining rear areas of PMC “Wagner”;
▪️threats of a mandatory contract with the Russian Defense Ministry.
And now, today, an open strike by missiles and aircraft.
Therefore, Prigozhin’s desire to restore justice, which is especially important for the Russian people, is very easy to understand.
And all the statements about a military coup are absurd. Why is this for Prigozhin, who wholeheartedly supports the Wagner PMC and spends so much personal money on it?
He will resolve all issues with Shoigu and Gerasimov and return with his fighters back to the front to finish what others have started and failed.
PMC “Wagner” - in the current situation - the only ones who can return to Russia not only a sense of justice, but also a sense of national pride.
😀”Join the most powerful army in the world PMC “Wagner”!!!”
https://t.me/wagnernew/8241
Who will take care of the Putler doubles?
Russian channel one reported that “Putin has been informed of all the actions of Prigozhin, the necessary measures are being taken.”
https://t.me/rusbrief/129064
Putin or his double.
WAGNER GROUP®
🎼Channel One about us:
A summary of the special newscast on Channel One for those who did not have time to watch the broadcast.
1. Reading out the reports of the CSO of the FSB, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General’s Office on the situation with the Wagner PMC.
2. A number of other official statements previously published in Telegram channels.
3. No additional information.
And there are no other announcements!
https://t.me/wagnernew/8242
In the centre of Moscow, access to the Presidential Administration is blocked.
AVChK-OGPU source says that the issue of blocking the entrances to Moscow with KAMAZs is being considered. It is noteworthy that according to the source, the vehicles were driven to all entrances as early as yesterday.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672377351554973697
At this point it is absolutely irrelevant if Prigozhin’s coup will succeed or not. Literally everybody in Russia and outside will know after this night that the war in Ukraine is lost. The morale of the Russian army, which was already low, will hit rock bottom and the mood in Russia altogether will be Armageddon-like.
What started as an attempt to overthrow the Ukrainian government and annex all of Ukraine has eventually backfired on a monumental scale. The last chapter of this Russian-made tragedy has opened and I doubt that it will be a long chapter.
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1672381532642889729
GRU deputy chief Alexeev issues a plea to Wagnerites to stop “the coup”, whole at the same time providing ammunition to countless lawyers working on war crimes against Russia. “I’ve been shoulder to shoulder with your PMC since 2014, working on missions in the national interest” Goes on to say “our country is in a disastrous state, with the whole Western world waging war on us.. incessant flow of weapons..and you’re stabbing us in the back”. Not the sign of a stage-managed faux coup.
What a disaster indeed
Notably, Gen. Alexeev is a key factor in pushing Prigozhin to go rogue. At the start of the war, he tried to circumvent Wagner and create a clone PMC under his own control, but Prigozhin caught wind and infiltrated this new PMC. Prigozhin never forgave the GRU (and MoD) for this.
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1672383974029791232
Arresting Prigozhin is no trivial job. He has an almost unparalleled Pretorian guard and his security chiefs were poached from the best FSO and FSB had on offer. And they’ve been preparing for this moment for months.
Tomorrow will be an interesting day. One way or the other.
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1672356816011837440
The strike on the Rykove munitions depot (#4,531) and the Storm Shadow attack on the Chonhar bridge has put Russian logistics in southern Ukraine in a difficult position. Russian artillery in southern Ukraine are about to have ammunition shortages, while the ability to move heavy vehicles in and out of Kherson through Crimea is impaired again.
Prigozhin is not stupid. He is part of the tolkachi in the system Putin has around him. Prigozhin has contacts throughout the Russian military and Wagner is a subset of the Russian military in all but name. Assuming he is telling the truth and the Russian MOD, with or without Putin's approval, attacked Wagner, Prigozhin knows as much of the in's and out's of the Russian operation than anyone. The Russian MOD failed to cripple Wagner or kill Prigozhin, and that makes him extremely pissed off and dangerous. Although he is long overdue for the Hague, I don't blame him for being pissed off.
Prigozhin does not have to go to Moscow. Due to the arrangement of Russian rail and highways Rostov on the Don has to be a key hub for supplying the Russian military. If Wagner or the threat of Wagner can disrupt logistics from Rostov to Shakthy for a few weeks, on top of what Ukraine has done, the Russian hold Ukraine will be in even more more serious trouble than it already is. The further north Prigozhin can go, the better.
So I think it is worth pointing out that for anyone in the Russian MOD to betray and attack Wagner like this is future Darwin Award, Ultimate Flame, designing newer and bigger Death Stars with Millennium Falcon sized holes, and killing John Wick's dog while letting Wick live stupid.
Update: Watching the Enforcer nightly stream, about 50 to 55 minutes in, the police garrison has just surrounded to Wagner.
(Argh - defeated by spell check again!) The police garrison in Rostov just surrendered to Wagner.
Girkin/Strelkov:
1) The Wagner rebellion began clearly prematurely. The front is not broken, ukry do not win. In this situation, rebellion means “stab in the back” and the army will not support it.
2) The prematurity of the rebellion (which was clearly planned in advance) is caused by a simple fact: in the near future, Prigozhin would certainly be deprived of the main part of his troops - to maintain even a 30,000th military group at his own expense, without the support of the state (read - funds and materials from the Moscow Region RF) - he definitely could not have been for more than a couple of months (and even then - hardly);
3) At the moment there are no videos, etc. evidence of the active actions of the “Wagners”. There is information that their forces in the rear training camps did not know anything at all and were not ready to act. With a high probability - only a part of the units concentrated in the Lugansk region takes part in the rebellion.
4) “Campaign to Moscow” for “Wagner” is extremely difficult - most of the tanks simply will not reach Moscow on their own, it is generally useless to drag artillery to Moscow, and attacking in light armored vehicles means risking defeat along the road, which is generally “easier than easy “. Everything rests solely on the presence of loyal units ready to fulfill the order and open fire to kill (”Akhmat” may well execute, for example,
5) If by the morning (that is, after 5-6 hours) “Wagner” does not achieve significant success (and so far no success has been heard of it) and military units do not openly go over to its side, the rebellion will drag on and every day it the final success will be more and more improbable... well, if the Kremlin doesn’t screw up out of habit, of course, and start urgently “searching for compromises” and exposing Prigozhin to use the overworked nose of a well-known VIP official.
Girkin/Strelkov:
And, yes, I thought that something like this would be closer to the fall, but rather already in the fall and always against the backdrop of new defeats at the front. Although in advance (more than once, who on my page for a long time can testify) publicly suggested that Prigozhin could play a significant role in the coup or its attempt. Therefore, for me, the rebellion right now is also a bit of a surprise. The hasty withdrawal of Wagner from the front and Prigozhin’s active struggle for “a place near Belgorod” gave me the idea that he was preparing a “march on Moscow” (from Belgorod to Moscow is definitely much closer than from Lugansk). But the competition was won by Akhmat. And, finally, Prigozhin’s actions are a real stab in the back and cannot be perceived differently by me. Not to mention the fact that his possible rise to power will immediately cause:
- rebellion in Chechnya and the beginning of the 3rd Chechen campaign (inevitable);
- a very likely collapse of the front and the enemy’s invasion of the Crimea, the fall of Donetsk and Lugansk;
- the beginning of the process of disintegration of the Russian Federation;
- A short, but very dirty and bloody period of the “Latin American dictatorship.” Without rules and without laws - according to criminal “concepts”.
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