Yevgeny Prigozhin lashes out at the potential US terrorism designation of the Wagner Group saying that Wagner has "always saved oppressed people from violence"
Prigozhin's statement also includes a veiled threat at the US if such a designation is made
Prigozhin's full response. He claims that terrorist groups can do anything to achieve their goals and warns the US not to wake up "sleeping Wagner" while also insisting that the Wagner Group follows a strict moral code. Strangely contradictory statement. t.me/Prigozhin_hat/…
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Victoria Nuland says that Russia has pivoted away from nuclear escalation threats to civilian infrastructure strikes
Nuland believes the reason for this pivot was international pressure on Russia not to use nukes
Russia's nuclear brinkmanship is a time-tested strategy and was aimed first at deterring Western arms supplies, and second at warning Ukraine against a counter-offensive on annexed territory
It could return to the fore again even if Putin has been warned of the costs
Civilian infrastructure strikes were advocated by the same hardliners who supported mobilization since the early stages of the war
It was logical that Putin's wholesale adoption of the hawk's agenda would lead to both infrastructure strikes and the draft occurring together
Russian Telegram channels are using the Crimea bridge attack to advance their claim that Russia is not fighting the war brutally enough and Ukraine is winning because of this
This post urges Russia to attack the bridge where Western arms supply comes and says “nothing is impossible” It also blasts Ukraine’s desire to drive civilian areas it strikes into 18th century living standards t.me/sashakots/36349
This post frames Russia as “humanists” as they have refrained from civilian infrastructure targets and Ukraine as “practicioners” as they have no such qualms t.me/yurasumy/5356
Four Russian State Duma deputies want to join the mobilization for war in Ukraine. Some more details /1
Dmitry Sablin, Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee, was a key anti-Maidan activist who was involved in a June 2014 attack on Ukrainian border guards in Mariupol
Sablin also has extensive real estate assets in annexed Crimea /2
Vitaly Milonov, one of the most extreme conservatives in Putin's coalition, also wishes to join
Milonov has met with Yevgeny Prigozhin and his ally sociologist Maxim Shugaley in Donbas, which was officially linked to humanitarian aid /3