they take rostov which is a significant regional capital where the headquarters of the russian southern military district, which directs the fighting mostly in the south and crimea and the black sea, and then turns around with this force and presses to voronezh, after way to moscow. an important regional capital that is full of logistics. and you re getting at what you just saw. what we all saw. these russians, they re russians. however rough humans they are. and we were seeing footage. they were kind of bemused. others were completely open and others treated these wagnerites as rock stars. extraordinary. and the narrative is getting out
In his address to the Russian people in the wake of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny, Russian President Vladimir Putin alluded to the events of 1917, when General Lavr Kornilov’s infantry rebellion opened the way for the Bolsheviks to seize power and unleash a five-year civil war. From the Kremlin’s perspective, that smuta (dark age), is the most dangerous threat to Russia, though not merely for the military calamity that it portends. The men in Putin’s Kremlin do not care what happens to the Russian people, their homes, and their cities.
Ukraine is strengthening its forces in the eastern Donbas region and repelling constant attacks on Bakhmut and other towns there by Russian mercenary group Wagner, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday. Reinforcements had been sent to Soledar, a small town near Bakhmut were the situation was particularly difficult, they said.
"Common terrorists," Andriy Yermak, chief of the Ukrainian president's staff, wrote on Telegram in denouncing the attack. Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary group which has been trying to capture Bakhmut and Soledar in grinding warfare that has cost many lives on both sides, said on Saturday its significance lay in the network of mines there.