The columns moved around - towards Buturlinovka and Borisoglebsk . There was no information about the occupation of the airfield.
Aviation continues to strike at the columns. PMC. By this hour, it is known about the loss of three aircraft of army aviation. Information about the downed transport aircraft is not confirmed.
In Voronezh itself, an oil depot is on fire: this is probably a consequence of a Ukrainian UAV strike.
In Rostov , contrary to the statements of PMCs, the departments of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not occupied, but only blocked. At the moment, Rostov is only under the partial control of the Wagners, the planned work of all military command and control bodies continues.
To the south of Moscow, all possible routes of movement of PMCs are blocked.
Ah yes, auto-balance. The sign above all signs that it's time to requeue, because you're about to get your shit pushed in by all the effort you put in either holding or pushing a cap for the last 8 minutes
Yeah what was his end game for this? Maybe Priho wanted to coup the MoD only since he feared his assets will be carelessly detroyed in their hands? But Putin didn't like this at all and gave the CTO?
Well spitting my drink out at a TPB meme about a mercenary uprising in Russia seeking to remove the head of the MoD mediated by the Belarussian president wasn't on my 2023 shit-bingo card, yet here we are lol
Prigozhin just ended his march after speaking with Lukashenko and Wagner is now going back to their camps.
Either all of this was some kind of grand plan to get rid of someone or distract NATO, or Lukashenko promised hem some, which is even more strange as Lukashenko doesn't have any power in Russia.
It doesn't need to be a grand plan. There could have been legitimate sleepers in Wagner and this was an attempt to smoke them out and get them to show up so they could be neutralized.
I don't think this will make a dent in Blackwater. This is honestly no different than from the whole situation in Afghanistan, to be honest, just replace mercenaries with the funding of extremist religious groups, the people that the US was funding where the sames they end up fighting, although that always played in the favour to have an excuse to invade countries.
It seems Lukashenko has managed to get to an agreement with Prigozhin and stop the march. In my opinion, it's the best that could have happened, I don't want to see any bloodshed, but Prigozhin needs to go, he cannot remain, I don't know how this can be achieved, because a too harsh punishment can still trigger Wagner, but I hope Wagner gets banned and incorporated into the Russian army and Prigozhin faces the wall. There's no name to what did, to betray your country, your brothers, to threaten world order for money.
Message from the press service of the President of the Republic of Belarus:
This morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin briefed his Belarusian counterpart on the situation in southern Russia with the private military company Wagner. The heads of state agreed on joint actions.
As a follow-up to the agreements, the President of Belarus, having additionally specified the situation through his channels, and in agreement with the President of Russia, held talks with the head of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Negotiations continued throughout the day. As a result, they agreed on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on the territory of Russia. Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted the proposal of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to stop the movement of armed persons of the Wagner company on the territory of Russia and take further steps to de-escalate tensions.
At the moment, an absolutely profitable and acceptable option for solving the situation is on the table, with security guarantees for the Wagner PMC fighters.
As previously reported, also during today, the President of Belarus held two meetings with the power bloc of the country on this situation.
What am I missing here? No one has put forth the theory that Wagner, in whole or in part, is infiltrated with US sleepers. This to me seems like the most obvious hypothesis to put forth and I haven't seen it. Can someone help me reorient?
Maybe there is some US influence but the key factor seems to be the plans by the Russian government and the ministry of defense specifically to nationalize Wagner and include it into the Russian military officially.
I just don't see how a mercenary army doesn't have US agents in it. I imagine that, like China, Russia has incredibly well-hined state apparatus for identifying and purging North Atlantic spies. But I imagine mercs are a bit more porous and have different immune systems.
It was mentioned now and then, but no one seem to seriously believe this, if they were to the point of "march to Moscow" they might instead do much more significant damage in concert with the UA offensive just now, which they didn't.
Eyewitnesses in Rostov report that the explosion was pyrotechnic intended to drive away the civilians. Wagner PMC troops have demanded that civilians do not approach closer than 2kms.
PMC Wagner unlawfully detained 2 people outside the Southern Military District Headquarters; presumably, they did not comply with the 2 kilometre perimeter.
Alright comrades, had to do some boring praxis, back for the real shit - what happened during the day? Did a literal coup actually end with the coup'ists going back...to the frontlines to fight a war they were couping for? Is that unironically what this came down to?
So there's multiple (?) armored columns moving through the country towards Moscow and almost 24h in there's been no real, organized resistance at any point. Wagner's just cruising past the few barriers, is still chillin at the Rostov HQ and allegedly the first video of Wagners detaining Akhmat forces has popped up. Sound's like substantial parts of the army and law enforcement at least tacitly approve of this.
Do you have a link to them detaining Akhmat forces?
Could be, maybe they are just trying to delay them without engaging in conflict until they get to a certain zone. They put some trucks to block the road and left the place, and they are digging holes in the road and will likely left the place too. I hope you are wrong, though, I honestly can't believe soldiers would be so traitorous.
There you go. As I said allegedly, but RWA brought this video up in their livestream too. Could be random civilians, but RWA is usually somewhat careful with these things so I didn't discard it immediately.
Could be just a delaying strategy, but still seems weird that nothing's really being done about them and all the units we've seen so far have been police, Akhmat, Rosgvardia and a few VDV in Moscow. You'd expect a convy in rebellion moving hundreds of kms through the country to be blasted apart, when this gets exponentially worse for every minute it drags on.
Edit: Videos of S400 missiles and S300s moving in/to Rostov, which is kinda weird too.