ok what the fuck is happening in ukraine

He will make the devil wait two hours for his dinner

new fash in hell

no 'Putin so smart to do this' from Trump yet?

Alexander Dugin lionizes Yevgeny Prigozhin after his death

He says Prigozhin "died like a man" and praised him as a servant of the Lord

— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) August 23, 2023

Men die in plane crashes, everyone knows that.

no-one does cope like loyalist paramilitaries pic.twitter.com/OHVI4ByJhk

— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) August 23, 2023

should've added 'human rights activist, anti-colonial fighter, children's writer and whistleblower' https://t.co/x1pT1oHkci

— molecular vernacular (@vikkink) August 23, 2023

yarp

Very specific lol

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/prigozhins-body-taken-medical-examiners-103245304.html

"As for the aviation tragedy, first of all, I want to express my sincerest condolences to the families of all the victims," Putin said in an on-camera address, adding that Wagner Group made a "significant contribution to our common cause of fighting the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine."

"I knew (Yevgeny) Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 1990s. He was a man with a complex destiny, and he made serious mistakes in life," Putin said. "He achieved the results he needed both for himself and, when I asked him, for the common cause, as in these last months."

Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg -- Prigozhin’s home town -- dozens of people have been arriving to light candles and drop flowers at a pop-up memorial.

The jet manufacturer that Prigozhin and Utkin were reportedly on has an impeccable record and it was the first recorded crash in the history of the Embraer Legacy 600.

Isn't falling out of a first floor window cheaper. Were his 10 companions people marked for disposal for a reason too or something.
Like do assume he must have been expecting this to happen at some time and must have been reluctant to travel anywhere not under his own agency like. But is it like waiting for the other boot to drop which will eventually happen inevitably.

guy who has a personal army might not be that easy to get to

but yeah removing more of the wagner leadership mightve been part of the plan too

https://t.co/9sTuYSi0Sb pic.twitter.com/0v7VojqzGu

— Erik Baker (@erikmbaker) August 24, 2023

the doubles have entered the discourse

I’ve been doing the Bane voice “crashing this plane.. with no survivors!” bit since a headline said exactly that

I dunno, if Putin said he didn't do it, that's good enough for me.

Rishi Sunak says UK intelligence services consider it was "most likely" he was on the plane 🙄

he just posted his "overlooked 50" on ilm

1. Guillemots - Through the Windowpane

wait, what's this about a plane?

lot's of bossa nova deep cuts in his 50, he's a total Brazilophile

2. The Coup- Pick a Bigger Weapon

3. Raekwon - Criminology

Tom Petty - “Learning To Fly”

and then "Free Fallin'"

Dave Matthews, "Crash Into Me"

Burning Airlines- "Earthbound"

Van Halen - "Finish What Ya Started"

Naked City - "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh"

Bloodrock "DOA"

Slade - "Wheels Ain't Coming Down"

Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to Fly

gentlemen you cant poll in here

Boris Johnson has claimed that President Putin is “being transformed before our eyes into an Asiatic despot”.

In a column for the Daily Mail, the former UK prime minister said Putin’s “mask is now fully off” following the death of Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in an attack he described as “violent liquidation”.

“I cannot think of another example of such ostentatious and uninhibited savagery by a world leader – not in our lifetimes,” he wrote.

Er, hello? One of your chums, I believe, Boris....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi

And Britland will be rolling out the red carpet for him very soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OP8v8CLlRU

3 hour interview with a guy from Wagner PMC. Doesn't speak English so is translated by the laughing patriot medic from the previous two interviews upthread.

Not too far in yet, but so far

- joined prior to 2022
- has served in Ukraine and 'another continent', not sure why phrased like that
- joined Wagner for the idea not the money

the idea being---?

?? the greater glory of Mother Russia??

Profit ... in the marketplace of ideas, man.

Just past halfway in the Wagner interview, not the easiest to follow and the interviewer lapses into leading questions a few times, which he managed to avoid last time out

- Radicalised by anti-russian Ukrainian propaganda not by Russian propaganda. Russian propaganda absolutely useless, has no truck with SImonyan or any of the Kremlim talking heads. Sees them as clowns. Decided he wanted to destroy the enemy of his nation due to the Russophobia he was seeing on telegram. This seems to start around 2019

- Ukraine wasn’t just planning to take back Crimea and Donbas, but also Kuban (Krasnodar), Rostov, Belgorod, and others were on the table (they were already carrying out kidnaps and assassinations not just in Donbass but officially recognised territories). Assasinations increased under Zelensky

- Interview goes into the weeds with some difficult to follow stuff about Ukrainian women preferring to become prostitutes in Hamburg, men doing drugs, nazis, the dark web in Germany, lynchings

- Doesnt believer Prigozhin was killed by Russia (no follow up on this for some reason)

- In Wagner there are foreign units, there is a unit of English speakers, a unit of French speakers, a unit of German speakers, and a unit of Arabic speakers. There are no Australians.

- In his particular unit there are no foreigners, only foreigners he has comes across are Poles and Georgians on the other side but they didn’t talk because he had killed them

- Poland has sent good sappers and technical specialists to Ukraine. But Ukrainian skill level has gone down since Americans started training them. Couldn’t tell if serious comment or not because also British, France, Americans good at technical expertise

- Why Russia doing badly? Something about a behind scenes agreement between Rus gov and Ukr gov so they didn’t prepare for longer war. Says the high Russian casualty rates are as high as is reported, but ratio is 4-1 and in some cases 7-1

Ugh, just come across the word (verb) "attrit" in an article about Ukraine. Inevitably, one feels, it's a word used by the US military.

can confirm via watching terrible youtubes

Something about Bucha that was difficult to follow - and was brought up by the Wagner guy, not the interviewer.

- Says the civilians there were killed by Ukrainian artillery but then Russian soldiers who had been there ran into trouble with the FSB because of it and were 'negotiated into Belarus" where they faced physical consequences that went beyond simple broken bones. The FSB seemed to have heavily interrogated some Russian soldiers based on western media reports. He knew this because he was later in trenches with people who had been at Bucha

Ukraine Special Forces conducting attacks in Sudan? WTF
Maybe we are heading to WWIII after all

Exclusive: Ukraine’s special services ‘likely’ behind strikes on Wagner-backed forces in Sudan, a Ukrainian military source says

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/africa/ukraine-military-sudan-wagner-cmd-intl/index.html

😕

Israel we know what you feel today.
Be strong.
Ukrainians with you.

— Ukraine Front Lines (@EuromaidanPR) October 7, 2023

Uh???

after Israel didn't lift a finger to help Ukraine last year too

true, but I think this attack is being backed by Iran and that's not good for anyone.

lol

Do we have much of an idea of how much population transfer there has been in Mariupol over the last year? My assumption is that most of the people that have been moved into Russia were moved out of Mariupol and that this is also where resettlement and replacement from Russia has been concentrated - especially with it being the only major city under Russian control that is out of the originally occupied territories

I don't really have a handle on just how many people currently living in Mariupol are settlers in comparison to the pre-2022 population, because that seems a massively complicating factor