Interesting comms coming out from the Kremlin to 🇷🇺-aligned media outlets:

- #WagnerPMC and #Prigozhin may NOT be mentioned when discussing combat operations in 🇺🇦.
- Do not cite ANY of Prigozhin's statements related to the war in 🇺🇦.
- DO NOT mention #Wagner prisoner recruitment or any prisoner participation in 🇺🇦.
- Wagner mercenaries & recruited convicts to be referred to as generic "assault squad volunteers" going forward.
It is now obvious: Prigozhin's failures in #Bakhmut and elsewhere in 🇺🇦 means that Putin has completely lost faith in him - and wants him removed.

#Russia
#Ukraine

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