Putin paid $1 billion to Wagner Group before mutiny

Newsweek ^ | June 27, 2023

[9YearLurker]

Why is that stunning? Isn’t it what everyone had understood about the Wagner group all along?

I suppose it does continue the misdirection to keep the discussion and focus on the Russia/Wagner dynamic.

[Kazan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMD6DstL6Wg

Update on the conflict in Ukraine for June 25, 2023:

- Ukraine’s offensive enters its 4th week with the line of contact relatively unchanged and having suffered immense losses;

- Western governments and commentators have been increasingly calling for more “wonder weapons” and even Western military intervention as prospects dim for Ukraine;

- The Wagner mutiny in Rostov, southern Russia was an ill-conceived gamble by Wagner’s figurehead Yevgeny Prigozhin;

- The crisis resolved itself within 24 hours with Prigozhin’s exile to Belarus and Wagner forces being fully integrated into the Russian military;

- Ukraine’s offensive potential persists, however, amid a war of attrition, territorial gains at the cost of men and machines brings Ukraine closer to defeat, not victory;