The last 24hrs have been dizzying for #WagnerGroup followers & #Russia watchers like Wagner chief #Yevgeny Prigozhin has released 4 videos that will have historical import for how outcomes of the #RussiaUkraine war.🧵 2/Around 9:50pm Kyiv time, on May 4, Prigozhin dropped a video of himself standing in a field full of bloody corpses. In it, he delivered an expletive laden soliloquy, cursing Russia’s Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu and Chief of Army Staff Valery Gerasimov.

When the history of the #WagnerGroup is written, the assassination of #VladenTartarsky in #St.Petersburg today will be viewed as a major turning point in #Russia’s war of aggression against #Ukraine.🧵 1/This is a huge deal. Russian milblogger Tartarsky’s assassins chose a chic restaurant frequented by St.Petersburg’s nouveau riche bling babies, and owned by #WagnerGroup godfather Yevgeny Prigozhin.

I’ve gotten a lot of questions this week about #YevgenyPrigozhin’s public statement about his role as founder of the #WagnerGroup.The incoming is almost too much to handle so I thought I’d lay down a few thoughts here for journalists and other interested parties. 🧵 1/#Prigozhin has had a kind of coming out party over the last few weeks with the buzz surrounding the release of a video showing him making a recruiting pitch to prisoners in a #Russian penal colony. The timing is, of course, curious.