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Ukraine updates: Russia's Shoigu makes appearance in video​

Ukraine updates: Russia's Shoigu makes appearance in video

Russia's defense minister was seen in a video for the first time since the Wagner uprising against his leadership. Meanwhile, Moscow's mayor says security measures in the capital have been lifted. DW has the latest.

www.dw.com

 

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BREAKING: Russia's foreign minister says the country's agencies are investigating whether Western special services were involved in the Wagner rebellion

https://twitter.com/x/status/1673311398498287620

 

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*ADDITIONAL INFO*

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu seen in public for first time since mercenaries demanded his removal

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu seen in public for first time since mercenaries demanded his removal

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was seen in a video released Monday in what was his first public appearance since a mercenary revolt demanded his removal.

www.foxnews.com

He is the first of these leaders to appear publicly since the revolt as Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, also a target of Prigozhin's,
have not been seen or heard from in public since the uprising.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been absent from the public's view as well.

 

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How Wagner’s short-lived revolt could shape the direction of Russia’s war in Ukraine​

How Wagner's short-lived revolt could shape the direction of Russia's war in Ukraine

A weekend of mayhem has left observers of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine questioning what could happen next.

www.cnbc.com

 

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Russian mercenary leader Prigozhin said on Monday, in his first public comments since ending a one-day mutiny by his Wagner force,
that it had been intended to register a protest at the ineffectual conduct of the war in Ukraine, not to overthrow the government. (Reuters)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1673349473462878208

 

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PMC Wagner will retain their structure and combat training.
PMC Wagner will continue to be a reserve force in the event of an uncontrollable situation in Russia, a source in PMC Wagner says" - Brief

https://twitter.com/x/status/1673350118555152387

Very interesting choice of words.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1673358429300072449

 

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Ben Wallace plays down implications of Prigozhin’s revolt. Says Shoigu & Gerasimov “still doing their day job.” Russian state “designed to protect the tsar.”
Asks why FSB seemed to take its time. “Only big change is that he could do it: exposes Russia’s reserves are threadbare.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1673364722748366848

 

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Ruble still in free fall with Putins grip on power in serious question, Russias future in serious question, which is making what little investors left in Russia to jump ship:

 

[justwiseenough]

*ADDITIONAL INFO*

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu seen in public for first time since mercenaries demanded his removal

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was seen in a video released Monday in what was his first public appearance since a mercenary revolt demanded his removal.

www.foxnews.com

Curious. Gerasimov might be told to be invisible, until Putin and Shoigu get this figured out.

 

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Russia's Prigozhin admits interfering in U.S. elections

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics.

www.reuters.com

Something to keep in mind.

 

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BREAKING: Putin says Wagner mutineers can join army or 'go to Belarus'

https://twitter.com/x/status/1673411326394396672

 

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️#Putin began his address to the people of Russia: Any blackmail attempts to arrange internal unrest are doomed to failure. Everyone was united and united by the main thing - responsibility for the fate of society. The organizers of the rebellion, having betrayed the country, betrayed those who were with them.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1673410147891179533

Look at who's talking all big with nothing to back it up.

 

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So, Putin was greatly weakened by the revolt. He is going to need to do something drastic at home to reestablish his authority.

If there was an agreement made earlier about removing military heads from their position or immunity for Wagner, that seems to be off the table now.

Someone mentioned a "Stalinist purge". Maybe not far from the truth. The head of Wagner may be losing his in a literal sense pretty soon.

But Putin needs to reassert himself.

Once he is done with Wagner, he may turn his attention to Ukraine.

The nuclear threshold has dropped over this. That's for certain.

 

[Onoya]

So, Putin was greatly weakened by the revolt. He is going to need to do something drastic at home to reestablish his authority.

If there was an agreement made earlier about removing military heads from their position or immunity for Wagner, that seems to be off the table now.

Someone mentioned a "Stalinist purge". Maybe not far from the truth. The head of Wagner may be losing his in a literal sense pretty soon.

But Putin needs to reassert himself.

Once he is done with Wagner, he may turn his attention to Ukraine.

The nuclear threshold has dropped over this. That's for certain.

What do you mean with "The nuclear threshold has dropped over this"?

Not sure if it means that now, Nuke are totally out of way, like it won't happen, or if the "requirement" for a nuke being used are now lower

 

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or if the "requirement" for a nuke being used are now lower

That is what I am saying.

 

[Irag8er]

WATCH: Putin's address to the nation today in English titles

https://twitter.com/x/status/1673446049246228480

 

[Irag8er]

Putin says Russia would have crushed rebellion, vows ‘justice’ for mutiny organizers​

Putin says Russia would have crushed rebellion, vows 'justice' for mutiny organizers

The Russian president's comments were his first since the aborted mutiny of Wagner Group mercenaries who marched on Moscow over the weekend.

www.cnbc.com

 

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So, Putin was greatly weakened by the revolt. He is going to need to do something drastic at home to reestablish his authority.

If there was an agreement made earlier about removing military heads from their position or immunity for Wagner, that seems to be off the table now.

Someone mentioned a "Stalinist purge". Maybe not far from the truth. The head of Wagner may be losing his in a literal sense pretty soon.

But Putin needs to reassert himself.

Once he is done with Wagner, he may turn his attention to Ukraine.

The nuclear threshold has dropped over this. That's for certain.

Even more so when he concludes the West played a hand in this (as most already have). I still believe that he does not want to face the West with a kinetic war, however, Ukraine is a perfect sacrificial lamb to show the West he means business while exerting power on the home front.

 

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The U.S. and its NATO allies had “nothing to do with” a rebellion by the Wagner mercenary group in Russia, President Biden said in his first public comments on the short-lived uprising.
"This was part of a struggle within the Russian system," he said. https://nyti.ms/3NnGw6h

https://twitter.com/x/status/1673468711397646336

Well, that puts an end to that speculation!