Not surprising. Once one vicious faction was effectively knocked out of play, the remaining two can only focus on eliminating the other.
This doesn’t bode well for Putin, who was used to the options that came from having three factions to play off against each-other.
… I’ve never seen them in the same place 
Soldiers from a
Storm company complain about their situation. They claim that they are forced to the slaughter without supplies (food/ammo) and didn’t get paid. Now, only 20 out of 150 remain. They refuse to take any further orders and turn themself in to the military police.
Video with English subtitles.
Apparently their base near Pryyutne got covered by the 36th Marine Brigade.
It’s only a matter of time before they issue a new version of Order 227 and start machine-gunning the penal battalions that refuse the orders of the regular army to advance.
They reportedly already have blocking detachments. It’s said to be one of the tasks of the Kadyrovtsy, when they’re not busy making TikToks.
Probably one of the prices Kadyrov pays for not ending up like his fellow warlord Prigozhin is turning those blocking battalions against former Wagner mercs now integrated into the regular army.
Kazakhstan has announced it had uncovered online efforts to recruit its citizens in the Kremlin-friendly central Asian country to fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, AFP reports.
The warning from regional officials late on Thursday follows reports in local media that Kazakhstan citizens have been killed in Ukraine.
Both the Russian military and the Wagner mercenary group have targeted citizens of the ex-Soviet region to join their ranks.
Prosecutors in the northern Kostanay region, which borders Russia and is home to a large Russian minority, warned residents not to “succumb” to attempts on social media to enlist men into Moscow’s forces.
The region is home to around 880,000 people, with some 41 percent of those ethnic Russians, government figures show.
“On the territory of our region, attempts were made to recruit the local population to the territory of the Russian Federation in order to participate in the armed conflict in Ukraine,” the region’s prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
I think I Will buy some thyroid blockers…
“Why the events of Saturday did not weaken, but only strengthened our country.” This article in the tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda gives a good sense of the new propaganda line, as the Kremlin desperately tries to spin the Prigozhin mutiny
Welp, Thread Reader App isn’t picking up the last tweets in the thread.
It really does distil the new (and deeply unconvincing) line
Wagner wasn’t really a threat and no one backed it. Those videos of people in Rostov applauding, the clear signs of troops refusing to block the columns, none of that existed or counted for anything 14/
Putin was totally in control. Lukashenko kindly acted as his stenographer but didn’t have the pivotal role he claims, and there was no panic or paralysis at the heart of government. Wagner got as far as it did because Putin chose not to have it blocked or bombed 15/
This is not a humiliation, but a triumph. Somehow “we didn’t have to bomb our own troops and shell our own cities” has become an achievement
It really must be lovely to live in rosy-tinted Russian propagandist-land, where choirs of angels sing hymns to Putin. 16/end
How about offering them, say a squadron of F-16s if they keep him there?
Let’s just give them one nuke and call it a day. /Xls
