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- world@lemmy.world
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- world@lemmy.world
An unverified video posted on the “Razgruzka Wagner” (Wagner’s Combat Vest) Telegram channel showed a scene in a forest where small fires were burning and trees appeared to have been broken by force.
It carried the caption: “A missile attack was launched on the camps of PMC Wagner. Many victims. According to eyewitnesses, the strike was delivered from the rear, that is, it was delivered by the military of the Russian Ministry of Defence.”
Prigozhin vowed to avenge the incident: “There are 25,000 of us and we are going to figure out why chaos is happening in the country.”
But he also added: “This is not a military coup.”
Either this is some twisted 4D-chess move by Putin or this might really be the end of Prigozhin. This is really a step further than his previous diatribes.
It could a general is genuinely mad at these mercenaries, and dumb enough to think a strike might pass as an attack from Ukraine due to the fog of war.
The arrest warrant for Prigozhin makes me think this is actually real.
I would my money on Prigozhin. Putin has a broken army and the Wagner’s are pissed. Russians on Russian fighting is not going to bode well, especially when one side is very angry.
Whatever it is, any infighting on the russian side helps.
Except we don’t want a civil war going on in a country with nuclear weapons.
Valid objection. But according to the russian secret service, the coup has already been squashed. And we all know they are a super trustworthy source. /s
Seriously. Wagner mercenaries are the only trained soldiers left in Russia after Putin sent his personal army to their deaths