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Jun 25 • 14 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Good morning to readers: Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, and Moscow, well, Moscow remains in Russia. For you today, a Wagner mercenary weighs in on recent events.
https://t.co/APugbnOVM9counteroffensive.news
"The situation between the Russian army and Wagner is tense," acknowledged Sergei Munier, a French-Ukrainian soldier believed to be involved with the Wagner forces.But he didn’t have any more to say about whether he was supportive of his band of mercenaries.
But he didn’t have any more to say about whether he was supportive of his band of mercenaries. It was a surprise that he was so vague at such a dramatic time, when loyalties are being questioned and mutinies executed.
counteroffensive.news
Munier bragged just days ago in a Facebook post, posing in the destroyed city center of Bakhmut:

"There is no greater honor than walking where Prigozhin (the boss of the Wagner Group) walked."
But now that Wagner looked to be overthrowing the Russian military command – radio silence.

The ambiguity reflects a pervasive uncertainty among many Russians right now. Should they throw in their lot with what Putin’s supporters have labeled a coup?
Munier is categorical about the situation itself: intense fighting broke out between the mercenary group and the regular Russian army, he wrote in a text, and it is violent. But regarding his position on it, he went silent.

counteroffensive.news
From my conversations with him I realized that even though many who support Ukraine are rooting for domestic turmoil in Russia, there is no sense whatsoever in rooting for Wagner. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
Please consider subscribing, or upgrading to a paid subscription, to read more about Munier!
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More questions about Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted coup remain than were answered after Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko allegedly brokered a deal to send Wagner mercenaries back to their barracks.
Before that happened, however, the world was seized by the spectacle of Prigozhin holding friendly meetings with top Russian generals and Ministry of Defense officials in Rostov-on-Don, a critical center for running the invasion of Ukraine.
What had started as a mutinous thunder-run to Moscow by the Wagner Group ended up being something more like a Joyride of the Valkyries.
The agreement to turn the Wagner columns around was apparently brokered by Belarus’ Lukashenko at the behest of Putin, who talked a tough game in the morning but ended up looking feckless and weak in the face of armed rebellion.
But what Prigozhin allegedly got was exile in Belarus, amnesty for his fighters, and possibly a free hand for Wagner Group to continue their deadly profiteering in Africa. apnews.com/article/russia…
Ukrainian officials could barely contain their glee at Putin’s crisis.

“It is not yet obvious to everyone... Russia right now is showing all the signs of a Failed State ... a rapidly degrading and dying entity. And it will only get worse from there.”

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Jun 24
Good morning to readers; Moscow remains in Putin’s hands.

For now.

The Wagner Group has seized territory in Russia and is trying to remove the nation’s military leadership from power.

The UK assesses that the mercenaries are trying to get to Moscow.
The war in Ukraine has sparked a mortal challenge to Putin’s regime: the armed mercenaries at the Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, are now in open rebellion

We put together an urgent NEWSFLASH report on the breaking developments at

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The British Ministry of Defense called the latest developments "the most significant challenge to the Russian state in recent times."
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Jun 24
Woke up 530am Ukraine time to absolute madness on all channels re Wagner/Prigozhin

We are reporting, and will have a new edition of The Counteroffensive early tomorrow ET with everything you missed overnight.

Sleep easy we’ll take it from here

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Here's we know at this hour: AP --

Wagner head Prigozhin has accused Russian MOD of ordering a strike on one of his field camps.

He's using this justification to threaten to oust Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

apnews.com/article/putin-…
Forbes: The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied that they attacked a Wagner camp, calling it a claim that does “not correspond to reality” and is part of an “informational provocation.”

forbes.com/sites/brianbus…
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Jun 23
Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:

$350 billion in Russian assets have been seized by the U.S., E.U., and the U.K. Three billion of which comes from the compulsory sale of Chelsea FC from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

semafor.com/article/06/23/…
"It's a catastrophe. Everything was washed away. Deer, wild pigs, fish and so many endangered species. And about half a million people are now left without water.” Says Anatolii Derkach, a Ukrainian official from the affected areas.

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Amidst a sea of nuclear uncertainty, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal have proposed a joint resolution stating the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine will be seen as an attack on NATO.

wfla.com/news/washingto…
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Jun 22
Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Russian disinformation campaigns have been in overdrive as the information war ramps up all over the world.

Today's main character is Lina, who watched in horror as her mom Russian TV watching habits consumed her.
At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Lina Lytvynenko didn’t talk to her mother for a couple weeks.

She was too busy packing, too busy fleeing, too busy trying to figure out how to be safe. She chose to leave her home in the frontline northeastern city of Kharkiv.
When they connected, the two of them erupted.

"I was very angry about Russia, of course. And my mother is living in Russia now for almost four years," Lina said. "And she said something about Zelenskyy, that the war happened because of him. And it was very emotional for me."
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Jun 18
Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands; an African delegation that visited here is now in Moscow.

Our main character today is Svetlana Goi, who risks her life to take care of left-behind animals in an area that is now a focal point of the counteroffensive. Image
The 76 year old proudly says she was once the best typist for a company that manufactured machines which helped feed animals.

“I was always the fastest; they were always bringing me the most important pieces of work to type at the plant,” she recalls. Image
But that life – and her town of Orikhiv, about 65 km southeast of Zaporizhzhia – is long gone.

“The Russians, they destroyed it fully,” she said.

It is estimated that 80 percent of the buildings and homes have been destroyed.

pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/…
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Jun 17
Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:

"Why should we threaten the whole world?...the use of extreme measures is possible in case there is a danger to Russian statehood." Putin confirms the placement of nuclear weapons in Belarus.

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
During the recent African delegation to Kyiv, Zelenskyy pressed the President of Comoros over their proposed plan for peace, stating he did not want “any surprises” from the African delegation's visit with Putin later this week.

aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/…
Olesia Perepechenko is visually impaired and experiences Russian drones and missiles in terrifying ways. “I hear these sounds slightly earlier, and the anxiety comes slightly earlier. And that’s why my agitation is so acute,” Perepechenko said.

apnews.com/article/ukrain…
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