Jason844, to Ukraine

Tomrrow's (Wed, 28 Jun 2023) Weather forecast for Minsk, Belarus

Temps: Hi 61F/16C & Low 54F/12C
Wind: NNE 8 mph/13 kph
Cloudy
90% chance of rain
15% chance of falling Yevgeny Prigozhin









mariyadelano, to Russia
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Hi, friends!

showed up with a voice message today. Translating some:

“Wagner is the most experienced and battle-ready military division in Russia, and maybe even in the world”

"As the result of intrigue and bad decisions, our division was supposed to be disbanded by July 1, 2023”

https://t.me/concordgroup_official/1304

mariyadelano,
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Prigozhin's voice message contd.:

“The fighters who decided they could switch to Russia's MoD, they did. But it's a minority"

“Even though we didn't display any aggression, we were attacked with a rocket strike”

“So we decided to immediately march on Rostov. I said that we wouldn't display aggression unless we were hit first”

https://t.me/concordgroup_official/1304

mariyadelano,
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Prigozhin's voice message pt. 3

"One column headed towards Rostov, another towards Moscow. In 24 hours we covered 780 km”

“We are sorry that we were forced to hit some of the air forces because they were attacking us”

“Not a single unit based on land was killed”

"We didn't force anyone to march”

https://t.me/concordgroup_official/1304

mariyadelano,
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Prigozhin's voice message pt. 4

“All military personnel who saw us during the march supported us”

"We stopped when the first land unit near Moscow examined the area and realized that in that moment, a lot of blood would be spilled”

https://t.me/concordgroup_official/1304

mariyadelano, (edited )
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Prigozhin's voice message pt. 5

"We turned around to:

  1. Avoid spilling Russian blood
  2. We were marching in protest, not for overturning the government. At this time Lukashenko offered to find a solution for Wagner to continue”.

“If on Feb 24, 2022 Wagner were the ones in action, maybe the special operation would have lasted less”

https://t.me/concordgroup_official/1304

mariyadelano,
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Prigozhin's voice message pt 6/6

“We are still getting messages from a lot of people expressing their support and some disappointed that we stopped"

“In our march, they saw support for fighting against bureaucracy and other faults currently existing within our country”

https://t.me/concordgroup_official/1304

mariyadelano,
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"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."

https://t.me/KyivIndependent_official/20396

davidaugust, to Funny
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Sometimes your weekend plans change,
disappointment happens: no coup for you.

I designed the "I went with Prigozhin to take Moscow and all I got was this stupid t-shirt" shirt, get one from :
https://bit.ly/NoCoupShirt

mariyadelano, to Russia
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Hi friends. We’ve got some post-coup and news to discuss.

As I suspected… none of this is over, it seems.

First of all - is still nowhere to be seen and never confirmed that he arrived in

I’m confirming some of what I’m seeing on Telegram and will be updating this thread over the next hour. Strap in?

mariyadelano, (edited )
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[FACTUAL CORRECTION]

As of 7:22 am EDT - Russian propagandist Kashevarova stated that military personnel soldiers in who didn’t resist Wagner were arrested and accused of treason. As you might expect, official sources have not commented on this https://t.me/meduzalive/86682

mariyadelano,
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More details on those fake documents found in Prigozhin's office:

The passports had his photos but 3 names: Dmitry Geiler, Oleg Semenov, Drimtry Bobrov

Dmitry Geiler has prev appeared in patient lists from VIP-clinic "Sogaz" that also treated Putin's daughter and gov officials. Geiler was a frequent visitor.

https://t.me/meduzalive/86686

mariyadelano,
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Additionally, in that clinic's patient records Geiler was allegedly marked as "super VIP”.

A previous investigation into the clinic and attempts to identify this man found a job application for a driver and a photo of a man next to a car.

So Dmitry Geiler is a real person, and might have been Prigozhin's driver whose identity he "borrowed”.

https://t.me/meduzalive/86686

mariyadelano,
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How Russian media are covering Prigozhin:

"A few years ago, Putin said that betrayal can’t be forgiven - it is a betrayal that happened now. During a war, this is a serious crime. Prigozhin went mad”

"What happened is a real stab in the back for all of us.” "Mutiny during war - always a bet from foreign intelligence. [..] It's treason.”

https://t.me/meduzalive/86695

mariyadelano,
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Russian readers of Meduza are also definitely not in the mood to forget. Some quotes:

“If Prigozhin retreats to the shadows, he'll retain the love of many Russians"

“Together with fear I had some hope that maybe, something will change.”

“Wagner will cease to exist"

"The reputation of the world's ‘2nd strongest army' dropped even more”

https://meduza.io/feature/2023/06/25/esli-prigozhin-seychas-otoydet-v-ten-to-sohraniv-lyubov-mnogih-rossiyan

mariyadelano,
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In , people are not very excited about Prigozhin coming to them.

"Quiet panic. Worst case, if he stays in Belarus - we lose hope for freedom in future decades”

"This butcher was handed our country. We might start attacking Ukraine”

"It's a collosal tragedy for our people”

https://t.me/meduzalive/86703

mariyadelano,
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Now a bit on Putin and what was going on there during the coup:

His two planes returned to Moscow, after disappearing from radar. Govt asserts that he "didn't fly anywhere" https://t.me/meduzalive/86687

Putin allegedly refused to speak with Prigozhin or take any part in negotiations, which is why showed up at all https://t.me/meduzalive/86693

mariyadelano,
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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)

https://t.me/rbc_news/77109

mariyadelano,
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Moving on from Meduza, looking for info that we haven't covered yet from other Russian Telegram channels

As of 11:57 am EDT - “tens of Wagner fighters surrendered to the police in and other regions"

https://t.me/bbbreaking/158955

mariyadelano,
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Here's a very "normal" video of volunteers handing over food and water to drivers who were stuck on the roads leading to while they were blocked off.

Nothing to see here, folks. Mhm.

https://t.me/bbbreaking/158942

mariyadelano,
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I missed this earlier from Meduza:

It's reported that in a publicist named Mikhail Serenko was arrested after the authorities raided his home. He is allegedly suspected of assisting with Prigozhin's coup.

https://t.me/meduzalive/86659

mariyadelano,
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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.

https://t.me/rian_ru/206991

mariyadelano,
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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.

https://t.me/rian_ru/206991

mariyadelano,
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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…

https://t.me/TCH_channel/89693

mariyadelano,
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Ukrainians started ringing the alarm on Russia reportedly planning to install mines around that power plant a couple of days ago: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-spy-chief-accuses-russia-mining-cooling-pond-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-2023-06-20/

Today the announcement is that Russia finished those preparations.

mariyadelano,
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Final update for now:

This is a video from one of Russia's popular political commentary TV shows, Evening with Vladimir Solovyov w/ Eng subtitles.

Snippets:
“from this side of the border there's practically an open road to Moscow”

“this is a serious blow to the authority of the country, and to the authority of the president.”

https://t.me/liveukraine_media/10789

mariyadelano, to Ukraine
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Since we're not trying to follow the news minute-by-minute anymore, slowing down to collect some explainers and longer write-ups on what happened.

Here's one from Independent, who are a great news source on anything

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-on-the-brink-of-civil-war-how-we-got-here-and-what-comes-next/

mariyadelano,
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