Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

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There was a group of people at the very top who initially knew and supported the demarche, now they are stepping aside from EP, as if to raise their hands - I had nothing to do with it. There are 3 people there. The highest level. It turned out that they used EP unwittingly.
It's interesting, but we don't know who these three are.
I am interested in the position of a famous person among all the other turmoil. Former Deputy Defense Minister Mizintsev recently became deputy commander of the PMCS Wagner. Prigozhin, starting the known actions, said that the decision was made by a certain "council of commanders" of the PMCs. The deputy commander is most likely a member of this council and how does this person feel less than a month ago, the former deputy minister? What position does it take? If he agreed or approved of what is happening, then this indirectly casts a shadow on the entire generals of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Someone came up with a name for such- patriots of their own posts. They don't care about the army, the country, the people. They are only interested in their own position

The situation is developing
Governor: the equipment of the PMCS "Wagner" is moving in the Lipetsk region

The governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, reported on the movement of the Wagner PMCs equipment in the region. According to him, the authorities and law enforcement officers are taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of the population.

"The situation is under control. There are no failures in the operation of critical infrastructure," Artamonov wrote in his Telegram channel.

According to him, he is now with representatives of all departments in the operational headquarters.

Artamonov urged residents of the region not to leave their homes and refuse to travel by transport.

Earlier, the authorities of the Lipetsk region reported that bus service to Moscow and Tula was temporarily limited.
Губернатор: техника ЧВК "Вагнер" передвигается в Липецкой области

But this is somewhat unexpected
A high-ranking commander of the IRGC declared his readiness to suppress the mutiny of the Wagner PMCs
In response to the current political situation in Russia, the leading commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Sayyid Mujtaba, declared his readiness to intervene if necessary.

"If necessary, we will prevent the fall of Vladimir Putin, just as we prevented the fall of Bashar al-Assad. We will not allow the dirty plans of the West to be carried out," said Sayyid Mujtaba.

This comment is a strong statement about Iran's role in international politics and its willingness to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries to counter the influence of the West.

As you know, the IRGC is a powerful military organization of Iran, which played a key role in supporting the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria during the civil war. This experience, apparently, the commander of the IRGC is ready to apply to Russia if the situation develops in an unfavorable way for Putin.

Nevertheless, Mujtaba's statement emphasizes that Iran intends to actively influence regional politics and believes that it has the capabilities to counter the strategy of the West.
Высокопоставленный командир КСИР заявил о готовности подавить мятеж ЧВК "Вагнер"

Интересно, но мы не знаем кто эти трое.
Меня среди всей прочей кутерьмы интересует позиция известного человека. Бывший замминистра обороны Мизинцев не так давно стал заместителем командира ЧВК Вагнер. Пригожин, начиная известные действия, говорил что решение принято неким "советом командиров" ЧВК. Заместитель командира скорее всего входит в этот совет и как этот человек менее месяца назад бывший замминистра себя чувствует? Какую позицию занимает? Если он согласился или одобрил происходящее, то это косвенно бросает тень на весь генералитет ВС РФ. Кто то придумал для таких название- патриоты собственных должностей. Им плевать на армию, на страну, на народ. Их интересует только собственная позиция
 
I'd say that Prigozhin would turn himself in, and be arrested (and later freed). There will be promises that the situation with "parket" generals will be solved (and that reorganisation is one of the goals of this show). Wagner will be elegantly assimilated in russian army. Russian society will be a tad more militarized.

And possibly some real "coup" situation which was scheduled and prevented with this (just as SMO itself was). And of which we dont know nothing.

There would be more agressive russian actions on the front.

And everyone will be happy.
One more thing that I forgot, we are thinking in western media style (we are programmed to do so), so dont. Many things happening in Russia cant be understood with that way of thinking (Russia used that to start SMO). I'm sure that things are going with this that we cant see for now. And that is not "western madling" or similar.
 
From the Russian MoD
⚡️ We appeal to the fighters of the Wagner PMC assault units

▫️ You were tricked into Prigozhin's criminal gamble and participation in an armed insurgency.

▫️ Many of your comrades from several detachments have already realised their mistake, asking for help in ensuring that they can return safely to their permanent bases.

▫️ We have already provided such assistance to all of these fighters and commanders.

▫️ Please show discretion and get in touch with representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defence or law enforcement agencies as soon as possible.

▫️ We guarantee everyone's safety.
Slavyangrad:
Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" can escape punishment if they lay down their arms

“ Fighters of PMC “Wagner” can still lay down their arms and avoid punishment, given their merits in the course of the military defense, but this must be done sooner,” said Pavel Krasheninnikov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation.
Not all of the PMC was in on it, or so it is claimed:
From Alexannder Khadokovsy
The rank and file of Wagner was not privy to the plans of the command - at least, most of it. The fighters were told that they were being transferred to the defense of the Belgorod region, and they were quite surprised by the further course of events. According to reports from the rebellious environment, the plans of Wagner's leadership also include the capture of Krasnodar. Well, forgive them, Lord, for they do not know what they are doing.
The PMC groups are given time to reconsider their options and surrender.

Fighter bomber TG channel argues that this mutiny did not come out of the blue.
The rant is not fully machine-translateble into correct English prose, but the idea is there:
Yes, it's clear to the hedgehog that it's staged. And of course, the preparation for the rebellion began a long time ago.

At least from the moment of #daytesnaryadyvagneram, These shells are killing our boys today. Thanks to all those who took part in the armament.
Then there was a heroic withdrawal from Bakhmut with the looting of the surrounding units and units. They took everything. Equipment, ammunition, equipment and the necessary weapons. A little shooting at the offending commanders in the basements of Bakhmut.

Moreover, the chekists knew that there would be a mutiny and reported daily where it should be. Yes, what is there to report, there are a lot of articles of the Criminal Code violated live daily and openly.

But everyone was trite pissing sledgehammers, and sticking their heads in the sand. Books will be written about the "exploits" of PMCs after all. F*ck[edit] everyone.
Well, or they won't, if they succeed.

Now Prigozhin residents will complete their prisons and show everyone the light at the end of the tunnel. And the Ukrainians will help them.

Therefore, now we have what we have.
Sobering up of the people will come very quickly, the main thing is that it is not too late.
Rybar Has a map and this description:
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"March of Justice" PMCS "Wagner" to Moscow
what is known as of 15.00

Columns of PMCs "Wagner" passed the settlement of Yelets in the Lipetsk region. Information about the total number of vehicles and personnel in the columns varies — someone talks about 150 units of equipment, someone - about 400 units as part of four separate columns.
Soloviev Live
At the moment, it is clear that the attempt to shake society, to kindle the fire of a fratricidal civil war has failed.

Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Naryshkin
And from this TG
Rostov: the Wagners have white armbands, their opponents have red ones.

History repeats itself.
The history of the Red and the Whites is from the The Russian Civil War, 1923-1923. I don't think it will go that far.

There are images of a large column of army vehicles from Chechnya on the move towards Roston-on-Don.
Xoaquin Flores posted a map of entry points:
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At the moment, there does not seem to be any armed exchanges, or very little. The part of the Wagner on board with this action will be given maximum time to reconsider, as Putin did with the Ukrainian army in February 2022. By giving time, the population and commentators have had time to take it all in and reflect. Throughout the day, the comments from the best of them have deepened substantially.
 
From the Russian MoD

Slavyangrad:

Not all of the PMC was in on it, or so it is claimed:
From Alexannder Khadokovsy

The PMC groups are given time to reconsider their options and surrender.

Fighter bomber TG channel argues that this mutiny did not come out of the blue.
The rant is not fully machine-translateble into correct English prose, but the idea is there:

Rybar Has a map and this description:
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Soloviev Live

And from this TG

The history of the Red and the Whites is from the The Russian Civil War, 1923-1923. I don't think it will go that far.

There are images of a large column of army vehicles from Chechnya on the move towards Roston-on-Don.
Xoaquin Flores posted a map of entry points:
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At the moment, there does not seem to be any armed exchanges, or very little. The part of the Wagner on board with this action will be given maximum time to reconsider, as Putin did with the Ukrainian army in February 2022. By giving time, the population and commentators have had time to take it all in and reflect. Throughout the day, the comments from the best of them have deepened substantially.
I would say more like good old whining for what they are famous, than something of real value. (For the bold part)
 
The whole thing has a sort of "Et tu, Evgeny?" feel to it.

Along these lines it made me think of Pompey who was also once a strong ally of Casear; Pompey being an ego-maniacal and highly successful warlord that goes against the rule and better wisdom of Casaer, initiates great national strife, conflict, etc. Only in this case I think Prigozhin's attempt at insurrection (if we want to call it that) will be suppressed with much less effort and fanfare (Pompey's battle forces being much larger proportionately to Caesar's than Prigozhin's to Putin's military.
 
“IF”…if, it is a Russian Psy-op, here are some possible benefits:

-Unite the Russians and their allies.

-Russian can easily move to full mobilization.

-Put the scent of blood in the water to tempt the enemy to make a stupid move.

-Attack NATO while they are reveling in the “presumed” Russian civil disorder.
Another option: Joaquin Flores also thinks it's a psyop, one effect of which is to essentially put into place a form of martial law in which to deal with subversive elements and put all of Russia's security organs under a more centralized command. Another would be, as already mentioned, to provoke some Ukrainian reactions. Some of his telegram posts (reverse chronological):


💢 Our source in the OP said that Budanov was able to convince Zelensky and he gave the order to Tarnavsky to begin a series of small operations of the second stage of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tonight, while Russian aviation was occupied by Wagner columns. - Rezident


💢Rybar: Clarifying the Security Measures in Moscow - Truth versus Fiction

We want to once and for all put an end to gossip surrounding security measures in Moscow , which is now being spread across all Telegram channels in connection with the statement of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

At 2 am on June 22 (a day and a half ago), units of the reserve, separate military units, units of the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the FSO and the National Guard were alerted: information was received about the preparation of an armed attack on government facilities. We wrote about this yesterday .

The yellow danger mode was introduced for 10 days: this is due to counter-terrorism measures. All state facilities were reinforced, all outfits were necessarily reinforced with firearms with the proper supply of ammunition.

At the moment, the FSO and the FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are conducting an operation to search for Ukrainian sleeping cells and sabotage and reconnaissance groups (once again: not Wagners, but groups of the Ukrainian GUR). Judging by our information, in the course of operational actions, FSB officers were able to contact two agents of the Ukrainian GUR, who surrendered the entire chain of underground cells in the capital and the Moscow region. Now they are looking for a couple of dozen people who form the basis of the underground network of the GUR.

The fact that terrorist attacks and attacks on government facilities were being prepared is evidenced by the facts of undercover intelligence: employees of diplomatic missions traveled all over Moscow in diplomatic diplomatic cars, removed guards, the order of service - then this information was transmitted by the GUR. A complex operation was being prepared.

Yes, the Ministry of Defense is now, to put it mildly, "discussing" the situation with Prigozhin and PMCs. But the reinforcement measures in Moscow did not begin today - and not for this reason.

- Rybar


💢 XF - The picture emerging for me now is —

1.) Wagner was called in to Voronezh and perhaps even Rostov to secure in the first case and drill in the second case.

2.) Prigozhin continues to coordinate effectively with the Kremlin and also the MoD.

In Voronezh it's reasonable to conclude that an ostensibly pro-Ukrainian terrorist organization successfully hit and bombed the oil depot in Voronezh. Wagner's entrance into Voronezh, if confirmed, would be engaged in counter-insurgency type securing of the perimeter, whether operationally under the guise of a drill or in fact an anti-terrorist operation which was declared prior to its public pseudo-declaration by Putin many hours later.

Russia has so far maintained a heavily normal civilian life policy inside of Russia during this SMO. Military losses have been low relative to Ukraine's, and the impact is probably felt in parts of Russia's interior and to the east, with more deaths and casualties reflecting poorer and/or rural demographics. Economically, however, Russia does not show fresh indices of a country beleaguered by war and sanctions.

While Ukraine no doubt has already engaged in open terrorism, Russia was not yet prepared to declare a CTO - Counter-Terrorism-Operation.

Such a declaration greatly changes the legal landscape in Russia. But now it appears this is happening.

Perhaps this will be limited to regions, perhaps that is not desirable or possible.

The aim is to integrate the functions of the police and FSB with those of the GRU and related military intelligence.

Putin is already at the top of the reporting relationship of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Security Service (FSB), and the Federal Protective Service (FSO).

Integrating functions of these intelligence and enforcement organizations with those of the GRU, which is military, could either set the precedence for power to be transferred away from Putin, or in a manner conversely which stabilizes or strengthens the desired position of the status quo including Putin.

Given Putin's position relative to the operations in the SMO and relative to Russia's economic position, it is likely that such moves at this time indicate that functions are moving favourably towards the status quo position, including Putin's position in it.

Background

We have seen a series of explosions and fires at depots and storage facilities of various kinds including fuel or lubricants, and various times during the SMO, except that these are deep inside the interior of civilian Russia. In most or all of those cases, Russia seems to have indicated that these were accidents, negligence, or crimes not related to the armed conflict in Ukraine or with NATO broadly.

Today

Today's bombing at Voronezh's oil depot is different because it is likely to now be considered a terrorist act. FSB set-up patsies and controlled most of the event, or they were monitored it and rather than stop the explosion, used it as a pretext to move.

If the Russian military, on the other hand, takes responsibility for the destruction of Voronezh, then we enter another information or cognitive domain to consider.

Russia denies that real terrorism hit, and instead puts it onto the simulation itself - "It was Wagner" or "It was to stop Wagner".

Using this justification is useful if the narrative must work to reinforce the hyper-reality of the Prigozhin as mutineer narrative at play.

We have this event to explain and also apparently Russian telegram reinforcing the narrative that Wagner troops were actively trying to take Voronezh.

In reality, we have big troop movements happening under various official and unofficial pretexts, and a sort of declaration of Martial Law in Russia effectively.

All of these operations which refer to 'terrorism' or the 'terrorist act' on June 24th, could be referring technically to the Voronezh bombing, but with the image in people's minds being the Prigozhin fake-out.

XF
On the other hand, others, like Kim Dotcom, are taking it pretty much at face value. Prigozhin did hint months ago that Wagner would take Rostov. Here's KD's take:

My view on the actions by Prigozhin and the Wagner Group in Russia: This started as a power struggle between Prigozhin and Shoigu. In the beginning of the Special military operation Shoigu and his team made mistakes and Prigozhin became of strong critic of Shoigu.

Prigozhin then had success in Bakhmut with Wagner Group presenting himself as a better military leader than Shoigu. In my view Shoigu then provoked Prigozhin by limiting ammunition supplies to Bakhmut resulting in Wagner Group losses and a strong reaction from Prigozhin. Many of you have seen the video of Prigozhin attacking Shoigu and the Russian military leadership.

Ammunition deliveries were restored and victory in Bakhmut was achieved but the video outburst by Prigozhin was likely counterproductive for him because the Kremlin and senior political leaders in Moscow saw him as a loose cannon who can’t be trusted.

Prigozhin doubled down predicting a massive loss for the Russian military claiming that it was not ready for the Ukrainian counter-offensive. He claimed that the Russian troops are badly equipped and poorly managed by Shoigu. With the Russian military successfully repelling the Ukrainian counter-offensive Prigozhin had played himself into a corner and his time was running out because Shoigu and his Generals delivered a major victory for the Kremlin.

In my view the actions by Prigozhin are an act of desperation because he has lost the power struggle against Shoigu and is likely facing serious retaliation. Western media claims this is an attempted coup against Putin. That’s nonsense. The popularity of Putin within Russia and in the non-western world has never been higher. However this war between Prigozhin and Shoigu is an unwelcome distraction for the Kremlin and the most likely outcome will be the arrest or termination of Prigozhin.
 
Sometimes when I am watching Putin speak I see his face and then see a 'ghostly version' of Caesar's image overlaid or 'merging' with Putin - like he is channelling an 'aspect' of Caesar (I'm not sure if 'aspect' is the right term?). There is a look he gets on his face (well it's more like lasers coming out of his eyes 😄) when he is being very direct / 'absolute' in terms of expressing what he is saying. I wonder if maybe he is accessing some kind of 'download' energetically since he and Caesar are connected to the "same soul group".

Does anybody else ever see/sense that? (Particularly more recently?)



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That's so weird you mention this! I was watching him back in March and I had the same feeling for the first time. You know how we talk about "second sight" and seeing the unseen? Sometimes I get visions and it was the first time I saw Caesar coming through Putins face. I don't know how else to describe it. You could see Caesars face coming through Putins face. Like you said, as if it was overlaid and/or merging in spectral form. Very very weird! And to me his eyes looked super bright, like full of light. I thought about it as well, the soul group thing and also the fragmented soul group. I mean maybe they share the same "oversoul" in 4D which would be "The Lord" and its sorta "fragmented" in 3D. So basically they share the same soul so it could make sense they can channel eachothers energy.
 
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On June 24, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had struck several key facilities of Kiev forces in different parts of Ukraine.
The ministry said in a statement that the Russian Aerospace Forces launched an attack with long-range precision-guided against engineering and reconnaissance centers as well as aviation equipment of Kiev forces in Kanatovo and Dnepr airfields.

In addition, a storage facility of British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles at a Ukrainian air base located near Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnitsky region was targeted and destroyed in response to the recent attack on the Chongar bridge in northern Crimea.

The ministry also reported several new failed attacks by Kiev forces in the South Donetsk, Donetsk and Zaphorohey sectors.

In the South Donetsk direction, close to Vremevka salient, the Russian Vostok Group of Forces repelled three attacks near Makarovka, Novosyolka and Levadnoye. Moreover, two tanks and six armored fighting vehicles were destroyed as a result of artillery strikes on Ukrainian reserves in Novopol in and Novovorovka.

Meanwhile in the Zaporozhye direction, Russian troops repelled an attack by the 47th Mechanised Brigade of Kiev forces close to Yablokovo.

Army Aviation strikes destroyed gatherings of manpower and equipment near Preobrazhenka and Novodanilovka. An ammunition depot of the Ukrainian 65th Mechanised Brigade located near Malye Shcherbaki was also targeted and destroyed.

According to the ministry, Ukrainian losses in this direction amounted to 170 troops, three tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, 12 armored fighting vehicles and three high-mobility vehicles. A BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher, a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer, a US-made M777 towed howitzer, two Msta-B towed howitzers and a D-20 towed howitzer were also destroyed.

In the Donetsk direction, the Russian Yug Group of Forces repelled nine attacks near Vesyoloye, Artyomovsk, Avdeevka, Pervomayskoye and Maryinka. Kiev forces lost 245 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, seven pickup trucks as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers.

In Bakhmut tactical direction, aviation and artillery destroyed gatherings of manpower and equipment of the 35th and 36th brigades of the Ukrainian marines. Ammunition depots of the 45th Artillery Brigade and the 109th Territorial Defence Brigade located close to Seversk and Sukhaya Balka were also targeted

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The armed mutiny in Russia that was started by the Wagner Group on June 23 didn’t apparently affect Russian military operations in Ukraine. However, Kiev forces, who failed to make any meaningful gains since launching their so-called spring counteroffensive, will likely attempt to take advantage of the situation by escalating their attacks in the upcoming few days.

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The guys from The Duran - whose opinion I respect - think that there is no sort of ruse, psy-ops or 4d chess going on here.


They also stress how much damage this does to Russia's image towards its allies and partners, who will now wonder if everything is as stable in Russia as they were led to believe. They point out how NATO and friends are celebrating, of course. Here I would add that NATO is obviously smelling blood and will find an argument to further invest itself in the conflict, perhaps directly, which would not be good.

As for why Prigozhin is doing this, I think he is acting more from a personal standpoint than any carefully thought-out plan. I don't think he is bluffing, but he is being hysterical. I don't think he is backed by some foreign element. Rather, he has lost touch with reality. He realized he was becoming irrelevant, he no longer had a contract, and therefore he would have to face consequences as soon as the war was wrapped up. So he probably fantasized he could march all the way to Moscow with his Wagner troops without finding any resistance and somehow intimidate the Ministry of Defense to resign 'en masse' and then get a hug from Putin. Or he thought he could surprise Shoigu and Gerasimov in Rostov on Don and 'apprehend' them (they were said to be there at the time). I don't think he thinks he can fight his way to Moscow, because that's simply not realistic. For now, I'm going with the hypothesis that he is acting out of personal reasons and he has miscalculated big time.

Sadly, this will weaken Russia and embolden NATO, prolonging the conflict.
 
"Report from the Press Service of the President of the Republic of Belarus.
This morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin briefed his Belarusian counterpart on the situation in southern Russia with the private military company Wagner. The Heads of State agreed on joint actions.
Following the agreements, the President of Belarus, having further clarified the situation through his own available channels, held talks with the head of the Wagner PMC, Evgeny Prigozhin, in coordination with the President of Russia.
The talks lasted for an entire day. As a result, they came to an agreement on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloodbath on the territory of Russia. Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted the offer of President Alexander Lukashenko to stop the movement of Wagner's armed men on Russian territory and to take further steps to de-escalate tensions.
At the moment there is an absolutely advantageous and acceptable option of resolving the situation, with security guarantees for the Wagner PMC fighters on the table.
As previously reported, also during today's meeting the President of Belarus held two meetings with the country's security bloc on the situation."

 
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