Posted on 10/06/2022 11:21:48 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Footage has emerged of a Russian propagandist being brutally arrested for speaking out against high-ranking Russian officials. Affiliates and members of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group have repeatedly criticised the Russian Armed Forces and its leaders on Telegram.
Alexey Slobodenyuk, the head of media for a Russian mercenary group fighting in Ukraine, was pulled from his car by a special branch of the National Guard of Russia known for their unwavering loyalty to Vladimir Putin. Slobodenyuk has been accused of attacking defence minister Sergei Shoigu online, claiming that Russia’s current failings in Ukraine were in part due to organisational failures. The Wagner group, for which Slobodenyuk works, fights alongside the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine but operates as its own entity outside of the jurisdiction of Shoigu, answering instead to a man known as “Putin’s chef”, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
In the video, members of the Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) can be seen kneeling on Slobodenyuk’s back as they push him into the concrete floor.
It appears that the arresting officers dragged the propagandist out of his car.
Another officer runs towards the man to help detain him, before barking instructions.
Two mobile phones, believed to belong to Slobodenyuk, are seen discarded on the floor nearby.
Commentators have suggested that the use of the SOBR to detain Slobodenyuk, instead of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, is “indicative of an internal power struggle and distrust”.
Dissidents are often arrested by the FSB but Putin’s relationship with the organisation with which Slobodenyuk works could have made that option difficult.
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The end is likely near for Putin, if he is starting arrest his loyalists.
In Russia, that is normal.
Here we use the FBI, DOJ,NARA, ETC
Why is he attacking Shoigu ? Putin is the one conducting the war from his computer.
If Prigozhin pulls Wagner from Donbas now, Putin is 100% totally effed in all regions.
Putin has solid support from 80% of Russians, Biden’s support here is less than 39%. Putin will be around after Biden is long gone. But even if Putin is gone, his replacement is likely to be even more hardline, so it’s irrelevant.
How can anyone trust any poll coming from Russia? (Then again any poll from here, as well)
I hope the Russians don’t kill him before the trial.
Alexey Slobodenyuk, the head of media for a Russian mercenary group... has been accused of attacking defence minister Sergei Shoigu online... The Wagner group, for which Slobodenyuk works, fights alongside the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine but operates as its own entity outside of the jurisdiction of Shoigu, answering instead to a man known as “Putin’s chef”, Yevgeny Prigozhin... Dissidents are often arrested by the FSB but Putin’s relationship with the organisation with which Slobodenyuk works could have made that option difficult.
KEYWORDS: kadyrov; prigozhin; radzankadyrov; sergeishojgu; shoigu; wagnergroup; yevgenyprigozhin
CIA.....
The wheels are coming off now. I pray to the Lord that someone can get rid of Putin and end this horror for them and everyone else.
Will Putin nuke Moscow?
Reports today that Putin slammed Patrushev in security council briefing yesterday telling Patrushev to “take part in solving pressing problems rather than complaining, exaggerating problems.”
Is that picture Russian or is it FBI and Pro Life advocates?
Putin nuked himself by starting the war in the first place.
Same tactics. Same mindset.
The walls are closing in.
Well Putin’s support has usually hovered around 80% throughout his tenure and I’ve never seen anyone in the Western media challenge that so I’m inclined to think it probably true. The old Soviet Union was always notorious for their propaganda, but in recent years they seem to have passed that baton off to the US. It has been especially noticeable now with the Ukraine proxy war, the US and the controlled media seem to have gone all out with the disinformation, much more so than Russia has.
The retarded is strong on FR
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