Posted on 07/17/2023 8:11:33 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
More mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner military contractor rolled into Belarus on Monday, a monitoring group said, continuing their relocation to the ex-Soviet nation following last month’s short-lived mutiny.
Belaruski Hajun, a Belarusian activist group that monitors troops movements in Belarus, said that a convoy of about 20 vehicles carrying Russian flags and Wagner insignia entered the country, heading toward a field camp that Belarusian authorities had offered to the company.
The group said it was a third Wagner convoy entering the country since last week.
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Putin’s comments appeared to reflect his efforts to secure the loyalty of Wagner mercenaries, some of the most capable Russian forces in Ukraine, after the group’s brief revolt last month that posed the most serious threat to his 23-year rule.
The Russian Defense Ministry said last week that Wagner was completing the handover of its weapons to the Russian military, part of efforts by Russian authorities to defuse the threat posed by the mercenaries that seemed to herald an end to their operations in Ukraine where they had played a prominent role as one of the most capable elements of Russian forces.
The Belarusian leader has rejected the allegations that Wagner’s presence in Belarus could destabilize the country, but some observers noted that he would likely order the country’s security agencies to maintain a close watch over the group’s activities.
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Post Ukrainian soldier pics for compare & contrast.
They’re making up to 60 year olds fight, correct?
Please stay on topic.
I got a kick out of the Left seeing Wagner as HEROES of the West...when they were doing their imitation of the Jan 6th ‘insurrection’, meaning trying to seize power without anyone in the government/military/public supporting it.
That lasted for a whole 24 hours, and so now Wagners are the bad guys, once again.
Wagner going to Belarus,we can see that it is not small army pic.twitter.com/9eKUYMaq8s— ZOKA (@200_zoka) July 17, 2023
They’re all dead now. Recently made to serve personnel.
The Ukrainian 60-year-olds only make it onto the Russian corpse videos, after they've aged nicely for a few months...
AP=BS
There was no mutiny
Looks like Belarus is setting up to become a prime military training location…using Wagner expertise…..without concerns for Uke missile attacks on the base
Boy Howdy! That was the strangest ending to a mutiny or rebellion or revolution I have ever seen. No one in the stockade. No gallows. Not even the “leader” being frog marched in front of the cameras.
Russia ain’t acting very Russian these days. Or something.
This is a troop movement and not some asylum effort.
“but then again, they don’t look very impressive.”
That sounds very similar to what Bat Masterson said about Luke Short.
He did not look very impressive but at more than one opponent ended up with 5 bullet holes before he hit the ground.
Not so hot if you're Belorusian.
Short was homies with some illustrious names from the Old West.
Not really, because 1) there are few military-serviceable roads between Ukraine and Belarus, which contributed to the Russian failure in February-March 2022---the geography is mostly heavy woodlands, thickets, low rocky hills, and swamplands, and 2) the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone lies squarely between Kyiv and Belarus.
Remember what happened to all those Russian soldiers who dug in there?
Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in Chernobyl's 'Red Forest', workers say
Russian forces suffer radiation sickness after digging trenches and fishing in Chernobyl
Russian remix of Paul Hardcastle:
In World War II the average proof of vatnik tears was twenty-six
Inininininin Voronezh, it was ninety
In Voronezh it was ninety
N-n-n-n-ninety
All those who remember Wagner
They won’t forget Prighozin
Conscription! Of lags past their prime
Whose av’rage sentence was nineteen (years)
Enjoy your retirement in Belarus, guys.
Since I have moved to Southeast Arizona very close to Tombstone, I have learned of a couple of very interesting and fascinating old westerners that lived here, that seem to have been kinda forgot. Luke Short. C.S. Fly Texas John Slaughter. All three need to have better biographers. Maybe a Stuart Lake.
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