1/ Yevgeny Prigozhin may be poised to take posthumous revenge on Vladimir Putin. A source suggests that Prigozhin was keeping sensitive information - kompromat - on the regime, which may now become public. ⬇️
2/ According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, a source says that "Prigozhin was sure that Putin would forgive him everything and was not afraid of anything. He said he knew a lot....We'll see if anything from his archives turns up now..."
3/ "As for the people Prigozhin died with. They always flew in threes - Prigozhin, Utkin, Chekalov. Chekalov was responsible for the entire rear, Utkin for the combat part of the PMC Wagner." /end
1/ A Russian marine, suffering from concussion, hearing loss and shell shock, says he was sent to Robotyne to be "disposed of". He was imprisoned and forced to pay a bribe to avoid being beaten, after he was refused medical assistance, and was then sent into a suicidal attack. ⬇️
2/ ASTRA reports that two marines from the 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, Zakhar Blokhin and "R.K.", were "placed in the punishment cell of the military commissariat in occupied Tokmak." They both wanted medical assistance and had said they could not continue fighting.
3/ In R.K.'s case, he "wrote a report that he could not fight due to his moral and psychological state." He says in a subsequent audio recording that he is "just having a lot of panic attacks" following two earlier concussions which likely caused traumatic brain injuries.
1/ While Yevgeny Prigozhin is away in Africa, back in Russia the Wagner Group is reportedly being looted by its managers and employees. Millions of rubles a month are said to be stolen through a variety of scams.
2/ According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, the looting is being overseen by Prigozhin's deputy Valery Chekalov, under whom "the company began to actively steal assets in a variety of ways."
3/ "One of the most common ways is to accumulate so-called "dead souls" [fake employees] in the staff and receive salaries for them. Mostly financiers and accounting staff are profiting in this way. In some departments, the number of such "zero" employees reached 30-40 people.
1/ With Ukrainian drones regularly hitting Moscow, the local police are reportedly very unhappy with the anti-drone guns they have been issued. The guns are said to lack the claimed range and are considered to be a bigger threat to policemen's testicles than to UAVs. ⬇️
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that the police are "not particularly happy about the new arsenal, because, as they were told, the guns affect potency.
3/ "At the briefing the officers were told that in no case should they point the guns at people and especially shoot them below the waist – then problems with male potency are guaranteed.
1/ Russian propagandist Alexander Sladkov says that Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region is a place where "they applied everything that we talk about but cannot put into practice", and calls for a similar regime to be adopted in Russia. ⬇️
2/ In a newly published video, Slavkov praises the way that the 'Donetsk People's Republic' (DNR) deals with dissidents and offenders by imprisoning them in basements, using them for forced labour or sending them to the front line, and calls for Russia to do the same.
3/ "In the Donetsk People's Republic, especially at the dawn of its birth, they applied everything that we talk about but cannot put into practice. Well, [due to our] routine, our legality, conservatism, indecision.
1/ A Russian military recruiter has revealed that army recruitment is far below the needed levels, and that if they don't reach their target "within a month, there will be a second wave of mobilisation." It highlights the Russian Army's continuing manpower problems. ⬇️
2/ As reported by both ASTRA and SOTA, the video (part 1 above, part 2 below) shows a recruitment session at a factory in Togliatti in western Russia. The two speakers tell an audience of workers that they can earn large salaries and bonuses by going to fight in Ukraine.
3/ The workers are assured that they will be given three months' military training and will not immediately be sent to the trenches; both promises are likely untrue. They are told that Togliatti is far below its recruitment quota, with only 10-15% of it having been met so far.
1/ 'Patriotic education' has become very profitable in Russia, with the federal and regional governments pouring millions of rubles into propaganda for schoolchildren. An entire industry selling ready-to-use patriotic educational equipment has appeared to capitalise on demand. ⬇️
2/ The 'Not the Norm' Telegram channel documents the Russian state's extensive efforts to imbue children with militaristic propaganda. It highlights how Russian companies are profiting from the requirement to integrate 'patriotic education' with the school curriculum.
3/ In one recent example, pictured above and here, an 'AVK Kremlin' "interactive complex of civic and patriotic education" was installed in the pre-school department of school No. 10 in the Moscow Oblast city of Lyubertsy. It's stylised to look like the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.