Russian military airstrike aimed at destroying an overpass bridge to block Wagner convoy headed towards Moscow on June 22 on the M4 highway near Voronezh.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Sergei Surovikin, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Deputy Commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine, has been arrested after a failed coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin, financier of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), The Moscow Times reports.
Source: The Moscow Times, citing two sources close to the Russian Defence Ministry; Insider
Quote from a source: "In the context of Prigozhin. Apparently, he [Surovikin] chose Prigozhin's side during the uprising, and they got ahold of him." ...
Russia's much more violent J6 ain't over.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Sergei Surovikin, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Deputy Commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine, has been arrested after a failed coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin, financier of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), The Moscow Times reports.
Source: The Moscow Times, citing two sources close to the Russian Defence Ministry; Insider
Quote from a source: "In the context of Prigozhin. Apparently, he [Surovikin] chose Prigozhin's side during the uprising, and they got ahold of him." ...
Russia's much more violent J6 ain't over.
They'll get a swift fair trial and be shot.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
... Rybar, an influential channel on the Telegram messaging application run by a former Russian defence ministry press officer, said a purge was underway.
He said the authorities were trying to weed out military personnel deemed to have shown “a lack of decisiveness” in putting down the mutiny amid some reports that parts of the armed forces appear to have done little to stop Wagner fighters in the initial stage of the rebellion.
“The armed insurgency by the Wagner private military company has become a pretext for a massive purge in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces,” said Rybar.
Such a move, if confirmed, could alter the way Russia wages its war in Ukraine — which it calls a “special military operation” — and cause turmoil in the ranks at a time when Moscow is trying to stymie a Ukrainian counteroffensive....
Fingers crossed.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
A top Russian general in Ukraine has lashed out at his bosses after being fired from his command, accusing them of undermining the war effort with dishonesty and politicking, in the latest sign of turmoil within the Kremlin’s military leadership.
In a four-minute recording released late Wednesday night, Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov addressed his troops, accusing his superiors of inflicting a blow on his forces by removing him from his post in retaliation for voicing the truth about battlefield problems to senior leadership behind closed doors. His firing, and the unusual public airing of his grievances, reflected the disarray that has roiled Russia’s military command since a failed mutiny three weeks ago.
While the 58th Combined Arms Army he commanded has been holding off a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Zaporizhzhia region, “we were hit in the rear by our senior commander, who treacherously and vilely decapitated our army at the most difficult and tense moment,” Popov said — an apparent reference to Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the armed forces.
(further chaos described)
Adding to this week’s upheaval, another top Russian commander in Ukraine, Lt. Gen. Oleg Tsokov, deputy commander of the Southern Military District, was killed in a Ukrainian airstrike Tuesday in the occupied city of Berdiansk — one of the highest-level Russian losses since the war began....
“The removal of Popov is a monstrous act of terrorism against army morale,” military blogger Roman Saponkov wrote on Telegram, saying that Wagner’s failure had emboldened the Russian military leadership to purge its ranks.
The Telegram channel Rybar, run by pro-war military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk, said Popov enjoys colossal support among the rank and file in the Russian military, who found the news of his firing greatly demoralizing.
“The conflict between Popov and Gerasimov highlights the main thing: the absence of unity” in the Russian armed forces, Rybar wrote. “The enemy will surely take advantage of this.”
... The recording of Popov was released on social media by Andrei Gurulyov, a lawmaker and former general who once commanded the same 58th Combined Arms Army that Popov headed....
War-mateurs.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Chaos is growing in Russian President Vladimir Putin's military after video released by Russian state media shows a fight that turned deadly between soldiers at a military camp near Moscow. CNN's Erin Burnett has more.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Might have been a stroke, but his left foot is moving and his face appears symmetrical. Maybe he fell off his horse or he sprained something jacking off to war crimes videos.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Maybe we could learn something from Russia. 
