Posted on 06/26/2023 9:26:40 PM PDT by Cronos
As a two-mile-long convoy of military mutineers neared Moscow Saturday, a Russian presidential plane took off from the capital at 2:15 p.m. local time. It flew in the direction of President Putin’s native St. Petersburg until disappearing from radar at 3:06 p.m., according to Flight Radar.
“Putin is working at the Kremlin,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
A Russian air force attack on the mutineers was a fiasco. Soldiers from the Wagner mercenary group shot down six helicopters and one Ilyushin IL-18 airborne command center. The combined shootdowns killed 30 Russian airmen. Debris from one falling helicopter set ablaze the oil depot of Voronezh.
“There has not been such a tragedy in the history of our aviation for a long time,” a Russian TV presenter, Vladimir Solovyov, lamented Saturday night. “How many aircraft have we lost today? What is this?”
In Voronezh, the “Wagnerites” took control of local military facilities. the 277th Parachute Regiment switched sides.
“I ask everyone to get out of our way,” Prigozhin boomed
...Normally, Moscow would have been protected by the 4th Guards Tank Division, a unit set up by Stalin to guard the capital against western invaders. Before Putin’s attack on Ukraine last year, this unit had about 225 tanks and 300 armored personnel carriers. They suffered 80 percent losses in the Ukraine war, largely in Kharkiv and Luhansk. The British Defense Ministry has estimated it will take years to rebuild the division.
To defend the Moscow region without tanks, local authorities blocked highways with school buses and dump trucks, and started to dig up asphalt with excavators. Bridges over the Oka River were blockaded. Inside Moscow, more blockades were erected and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin imposed a “counter-terrorist regime.” Panic spread among some residents and all air tickets out of Moscow were sold out by Saturday night,
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
From the article
“In yet another big failure by Russia’s well-funded intelligence services, Mr. Putin seems to have been caught by surprise. The seizure and occupation of Rostov was no minor feat. For a decade, this city of more than a million has served as the major logistical base and military command center for Russia’s military operations in southern Ukraine. Without firing a shot, Wagner rebels took the city Friday night.
Local Russian army units did not block the rebels. Of even greater concern, the Akhmat troops of the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, were sent to Rostov. They then stepped aside to avoid confrontation. Civilians welcomed the rebels, posing for selfies with Wagner troops, and in one case placing flowers in the barrel of a tank gun. Well-wishers shouted, “Strength to Wagner.” They jostled for selfies with Mr. Prigozhin as he left Rostov Saturday night.
“It’s like Prigozhin is the person who looked behind the screen at the Wizard of Oz, and saw the great and terrible Oz was just this little frightened man,” the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia director, John Herbst, said Sunday on CNN. “Putin has been diminished for all time by this affair.”
James Brooke gets Cronos the Timebot some more little blue Prigo pills to put some stiffness back in the flagging “Russian insurrection” story...
You seem a bit strung out.
No Instructions from the bosses back east?
“Putin has been diminished”
So ...one step closer to testicle newks ehh?
The bottle of little blue ZNPP pills is on its way, so you can look forward to a week of robust Zeepliness sometime in the near future.
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
“the Atlantic Council”
LOL!!!!!
Kiry is afraid of his own boss in Moscow... and that’s why he would probably want to be out of Russia as we speak... The problem is that the FSB need all their employees mobilized and hard at work in their propaganda-troll factories right now.
You can’t blame kiry to do his work.
I think we should offer him asylum in the USA, and maybe as gesture of gratitude he would be able to give us useful information about Russia?
If Putin was fleeing, the LAST place he would go is St Petersburg, which is Wagner HQ and home base.
Tabloid journalism.
The original account holder should have used a less crackable password.
U.S. intel knew in advance. Russian intel knew in advance. The CIA could have thought he was their guy while he was giving an Oscar-worthy performance for Putin. As far as is known, Prigozin is alive and breathing which may indicate he was being less than a traitor, and not on the American payroll unless he declared the income to Putin.
It's too early to tell what was really going on.
As for the NY Sun, it should not be confused with a former newspaper that went by that name. The latest 2022 resurrection of The Sun has a daily print circulation of zero.
That post is gonna leave a mark.
“Why did...”
Before you ask “why?”, you should ask yourself if your sources are telling the truth.
in this case, your sources are lying.
https://www.rp.pl/konflikty-zbrojne/art38514371-co-z-f-16-dla-ukrainy-najpierw-piloci-potem-samoloty
“Kilka krajów UE, w tym Polska, będzie szkolić ukraińskich pilotów do obsługi F-16. Otwarte pozostaje pytanie, kto dostarczy maszyny.
Publikacja: 23.05.2023 22:00”
That says that several countries, including Poland are going to train Ukrainian pilots to use the F16
Jesteśmy gotowi i chcemy, żeby to odbywało się w ramach unijnej misji wojskowej w Ukrainie – powiedział Mariusz Błaszczak.
So what are you talking about, Madman?
Can be, however in this case it is increasingly clear that Pooptin did flee Moscow.
He was in his safe house outside Moscow until the May 8 “parade”, and seems to have stayed there until Prigo decided to surprise him.
Kiry must be terrified - he may well be put into one of the cannon-fodder troops for one of the factions
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