#Russians seem to have the worst luck at falling-- many of #Putin's enemies have fallen from high-rise windows, and now their planes are just falling from the sky.🤔🙄
#Prighozin was returning to #Russia from a trip to #Africa when the plane he is believed to have been aboard crashed outside of #Moscow. Ten people (including Prighozin) are confirmed dead.
"Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov has sources within the intelligence services. He says the Russian army's "wait and see" approach during the #Wagner mutiny has unsettled power holders within the apparatus. "The biggest threat is not #Prigozhin per se, but the reaction of the #army and the security services," Soldatov told @dw Sarah Kelly."
"Camps for the Wagner mercenary group are being built on the territory of Belarus, the Russian independent news outlet Verstka wrote on June 26.
The outlet reported that a military camp for 8,000 fighters is being built near Asipovichy in Mogilev Oblast, roughly 200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, with more camps to come."
A great #Thread🧵 from @mariyadelano with an update about the people involved in the #RussianCoup (not only #Prigozhin and #Putin, but also the #Wagner troops), and some VERY interesting information about the entire situation. It also addresses the Prigozhin-passport photo images, which were circulating online at one point.
Russia's Ministry of Digital Communications and Mass Media has just recommended that Monday, June 26, is made into a holiday for IT and media workers in "affected regions" because Saturday was "such a stressful day"
(Speculation: are they trying to create a soft media blackout tomorrow? If all the journalists are off, nobody can report the news)
Here's a very "normal" video of volunteers handing over food and water to drivers who were stuck on the roads leading to #Moscow while they were blocked off.
It's reported that in #Volgograd a publicist named Mikhail Serenko was arrested after the authorities raided his home. He is allegedly suspected of assisting with Prigozhin's coup.
Andrey Kartapolov, a member of Russian Duma, states that they are working on a new law for regulating mercenary groups like Wagner, but that it's too "early" to talk about any decisions regarding their fate.
Andrey Kartapolov, a member of Russian Duma, states that they are working on a new law for regulating mercenary groups like Wagner, but that it's too "early" to talk about any decisions regarding their fate.
Switching over to Ukrainian channels for a bit because here's a scary development not directly related to the coup but VERY much worth mentioning:
According to Kyrylo Budanov (Chief of Ukraine Military Intelligence), Russia has mined the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant so that they can blow it up at some later point…
When a man teaches a dog to fight and kill, with pure ruthlessness & cruelty, he shouldn't be surprised when that same dog comes after his throat and tears his face off, thirsting for his blood.
#Prigozhin was #Putin's pitbull, trained to go for the throat. I doubt it was fear or love of his old Master that stopped #PutinsChef in his tracks.