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LIVE: Russia 'facing treason’, Putin says in address to the nation

f24.my 🔴 Live blog : Putin accuses Wagner group of 'treason' in national address

Russia accused Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin of armed mutiny on Friday after he alleged that the mercenary group had killed a huge number of his fighters in an air strike. Prigozhin, who claims his…

Putin accuses Wagner chief Prigozhin of treason, calls Wagner mercenaries 'heroes' who helped 'liberate' Donbas.

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Wagner seize control of Russian military HQ in Rostov-on-Don after commanding officer FLED when mercenaries arrived: Militia leader Prigozhin says 25,000 men will march on Moscow to take out 'evil' military chiefs as Putin charges him with armed mutiny

this looks like a start of civil war.
- Russia analyst on Al Jazeera talking about revolution
  
  It's started by the military, so it's a coup, maybe a revolt. In my definition, a revolution is done by the people, not the military.
- No no, it's a Special Civil Operation!
- now if only Kadyrov's tiktok brigade joins in and they all manage to kill each other, it'll be Christamas come early.
So, we have the Free Russian liberation group wandering around and taking random towns from Putin. Then we have part of Wagner literally rolling up to military headquarters in tanks, forcing the head to flee. Right now, AFAICT, they're cruising up the highway to Moscow, which is being carved up by trench diggers of the Russian army in anticipation of the convoy. Then there are statements by Kadyrov that seem to support Putin, making it a double coup (though I haven't seen anything between the Wagner subgroups).

I think this is a Civil Double Mu-terr-coup-tionary Attack (mutiny, terrorist attack, military coup, revolution). Fucking Wild.
So this is an appeal to Wagner mercenaries to desert or to overthrow Prigozhin as leader of Wagner?
- Very poor calculation from Putin. Guessing he's again listening to his yesmen.
From the France24 link (thanks) "10:30am: Russia’s Putin briefed Belarus’ Lukashenko on situation in Russia" - I'm guessing that was just before his plane took off and headed for Türkiye!
- The consensus ~~appears~~ seems to be that Lukashenko's family was on the plane. It's not clear whether he was on it or not.
That page seems slightly broken? I can't scroll down until I start the video and accept cookies, that doesn't seem right.
- I posted it from the F24 app, that may be why. Here's a link to the browser version https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230624-live-moscow-accuses-wagner-head-of-mutiny-he-says-his-forces-enter-russia
The next Call of Duty game sounds lit
How did my cheapo paint spraying machine start such a melee?

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