please post any subsequent updates here unless they’re huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don’t have to be their own thread
Wagner troops taking over nuclear facility
Rumors on telegram that Shoigu has been detained.
Ukraine’s intelligence had foreseen this coup 3 months ago. Budanov’s “shh” makess a lot more sense now.
source : https://twitter.com/APHClarkson/status/1672490934116708352
tl;dr: A counter-terrorist operation has been launched in several Russian regions, as well as in Moscow as preparations are being made for the capital’s siege by the Wagner Group forces that rebelled against Russia’s top military command - Ukraine’s defense intelligence,
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3727239-prigozhins-mutiny-in-russia-intelligence-update.html
Webcam in Russia
https://www.geocam.ru/en/in/russia/traffic/https://twitter.com/novayagazeta_en/status/1672613447673032704?t=31GbI-jXa6-6oC0Lve85YQ&s=19
Source: PMC Wagner leadership ordered mercenaries stationed in Moscow region to ‘be ready to move towards the incoming units’ yesterday.
Two fighters of PMC Wagner who are currently on leave in the Moscow region told Novaya-Europe that back yesterday they had been contacted by representatives of the PMC leadership and ordered to “be prepared to move towards the incoming units of the PMC”.
In practice, Prigozhin declared mobilisation among his former employees: there could be at least 30,000 of them in addition to the fighters that are already in service, military expert Georgy Aleksandrov tells Novaya-Europe. 1/
Leonid Nevzlin: Putin is hiding in the bunker of his residence in Valdai. His closest friends and associates also flew there. The dictator is in a panic. Additional troops advanced towards Valdai to protect him. My sources just said this.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672616852319551488?cxt=HHwWgIC2_cmKqrYuAAAA
https://music.apple.com/us/album/swan-lake-op-20-act-1-no-9-finale-andante/769180950?i=769180971
Or at least, we can hope 😃
So reading twitter…
It seems much of the “Ammunition shortage” Prigozhin was loudly complaining about was stock pilling. Similarly much of Wagnar was pulled out of Ukraine to rebuild.
There have been suggestions Prigozhin was planning to launch an attack on Sunday but the Russian MoD attacked a Wagner site forcing him to launch a day early.
One tweet suggested Wagner soliders had been calling family all day (e.g. before a big operation).
Seizing Rostok Von Don was a clever initial play, since its a major logistics hub. This allowed him to arm his troops and provides a base if the coup fails.
It seems the South Military District gave up without a fight, with soliders surrendering.
Prigozhin has sent a shock force to Moscow, its bypassing major cities and trying to get there ASAP. There is a belief senior Kremlin officials will abandon ship.
Various helicopters are attacking the shock force but it seems Wagner are using air defence. Various MI-8, KA-52 and a ll-s2 have been shown destroyed.
The Tik Tok bigrade are trying to attack Rostok, considering they aren’t “true Russians” and were used as barrier troops, this doesn’t seem to be going down well. They are also stripping Donetsk of defenders to do this.
Seizing Rostok Von Don was a clever initial play, since its a major logistics hub.
This also means if the coup lasts for more than a few days, the Russian Army’s going to start running out of ammunition in significant portions of the front in Ukraine.
Russian vs Muscovy
Another large convoy of Kadyrov forces, also about 200 pieces of equipment, is going from Mariupol to Rostov!
https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1672632206580240384?cxt=HHwWgMC-kaiIsbYuAAAA
https://twitter.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/1672614474967322624?s=20
graphic showing the progress of Prigozhin’s rebellion. Little bright spots mark district centers where evidence of fighting has been observed, and big bright spots mark cities where explosions have been heard. Regions where Wagner column has been spotted marked in purple
Ukraine has gotten back territory from the Russians they haven’t had since 2014!
