Posted on 06/23/2023 4:42:30 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
RIGA, Latvia — Russia’s Federal Security Service late Friday announced a criminal case against Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin, accusing him of “incitement to armed rebellion” after he declared an open conflict with Russia’s military leadership and called on Russians to join 25,000 Wagner fighters against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and other top commanders.
Prigozhin, whose private military company helped Russia seize the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Moscow’s only significant territorial gain this year, accused the Russian military on Friday of carrying out a strike on a Wagner camp, and appeared to threaten Shoigu, declaring “This scum will be stopped!”
In a rare late-night statement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin had been informed about the situation and that “all necessary measures” were being taken.
The announcement of the criminal case by the Federal Security Service, or FSB, signaled that Prigozhin could face imminent arrest for comments in which he declared that he would lead a “march of justice” against his enemies in Russia’s Ministry of Defense. The Wagner leader denied that he was attempting a military coup.
In a series of furious audio messages, Prigozhin accused Shoigu of flying to Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia specifically to launch a missile strike against Wagner, before fleeing the area late Friday.
The Russian Defense Ministry responded swiftly to Prigozhin’s extraordinary threats, denying his claim that the military had struck a Wagner camp, calling it “an informational provocation.”
“The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to carry out combat missions on the line of contact with the armed forces of Ukraine in the area of the special military operation,” the ministry said.
Prigozhin posted a video purporting to show the strike on the camp where he said many of his fighters were killed.
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—” as a loyalty test. Prigozhin is responding as Caesar did, by moving towards the Rubicon, army in tow.”
Did Prigozhin mention anything about the “the die being cast”?
—”It’s demoralizing when something like this happens. It clashes with the narrative that Russia has the Ukrainians on the run. I’m sure Putin will now attempt to portray Prigozhin as a Ukrainian or NATO stooge. “
That and Prigozhin controls the ‘Trolls from Olgino’ operation.
Or perhaps not, seeing as most are simply a waste of bandwidth and have been over-served with cheap Bud Light.
[That and Prigozhin controls the ‘Trolls from Olgino’ operation.
Or perhaps not, seeing as most are simply a waste of bandwidth and have been over-served with cheap Bud Light.]
Thanks Zhang Fei for all of those responses.
“Coups never succeed without the army’s backing.”
What about when the army is busy in a foreign country hiding in trenches?
“England conquered the world, the French conquered nothing... the Spanish conquered nothing... “
Well, the French at least did well under Napoleon, even though he was technically more of an Italian. And the Spanish were the most powerful, and richest, country on the planet for a few centuries before the English managed to surpass their navy. The only ones who could compare to Spain at that point were the Turks, but Spain had them boxed up in the Mediterranean while the rest of the world was Spain’s playpen.
But it’s mostly peaceful.
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