Russian special military operation

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  1. Lil Mike

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    Hey our transgenders have their heels on and are ready for battle!

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  2. Valery Staricov

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    You asked a difficult question. Even Vladimir Putin has not yet answered on this question clearly.
    But I will try to respond based on the opinion of the majority of Russian experts.
    Russian victory criterias:
    1. Unconditional surrender of Ukraine.
    2. The eradication of Nazism in Ukraine and the punishment of Nazi criminals. Tribunal under nazi criminals. The punishment is life imprisonment.
    3. Destruction of the Ukrainian state. Russia will no longer put time bombs in its structure in the form of national republics. The entry of Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation on the basis of a popular referendum. Ukraine consists of 3 parts today- Western, Central and Southeast. Southeast Ukraine is the Donbass and Black Sea region. Part of Southeast Ukraine (Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions) has already joined in the Russian Federation on the basis of a popular referendum. Another part of Southeast Ukraine (Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkov regions) should do the same in the near future. Southeast Ukraine is home to the Russian population in the vast majority and valuable large industry, ports, shipyards are located here. Western Ukraine can be given to Poland, because Russia does not want to wage war for another 10 years against Ukrainian partisans. Or Western Ukraine will also become part of the Russian Federation after a period of Russian occupation and re-education. This is how it turns out. Central Ukraine, led by Kyiv, should become part of the Russian Federation after a period of Russian occupation and re-education.

    Those Ukrainians who disagree with this plan must leave for Europe, will be sent to a Russian prison or killed in a war with Russia.
     
  3. Valery Staricov

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    You are good fellow, I like your words. Under Soviet rule, all transgender people were despised, they were considered as pidoras and they received 2 years in prison. I agree with that totally.
     
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    @Valery Staricov I was going to answer your post....but....well its just so bloody stupid I really can't be bothered...have fun
     
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    99.9% of Russians treat to transgender people exactly as I say. Gay rights are wildness in Russia. That is why Russian people will never accept these Western ideas about transgender rights. Therefore, I mock Western ideas about transgender rights, although my textbook on social studies is built on the ideas of Western classics of sociology and on Western textbooks. I deeply respect these ideas of the classics of Western sociology.
     
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    What a load of bovine excrement you put out. There is no war in Russia only in Ukraine caused by the Russians.
     
  7. Valery Staricov

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    War in Ukraine.

    English subtitles exist in this video. The full history of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine for 10 months..
     
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    made me laugh about Ukrainian propaganda
    and about the propaganda of Hitler and Stalin, what do you say?
    about the propaganda of the CPSU?
    after another Ukrainian victory, what will Moscow say about Putin's propaganda?
     
  9. Valery Staricov

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    The US has its own false propaganda today about the war in Ukraine. That is why Tucker Carlson, who was telling an unpleasant truth for Biden, was fired with Fox News.
     
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    On January 11, 2023, Chief of Staff of the RF Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov was appointed Commander-in-Chief in Ukraine, and Sergey Surovikin was appointed his deputy. The implicit meaning of this appointment was that this appointment would allow for a major offensive in Ukraine in the near future. Putin's response to the Crimean Bridge explosion is a massive missile strike on infrastructure throughout Ukraine - in power plants, buildings of the Security Council of Ukraine, in the center of Kyiv on October 10 and 11, 2022. Many cities of Ukraine were without electricity, water supply, Internet and railway communication. About 40% of power plants in Ukraine were damaged. In response, the Ukrainian army carried out an attack of 9 aerial drones and 7 autonomous naval drones on the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol Bay. Sailor Artyom Zhiltsov noticed in time an underwater drone, with only a camera sticking out over the water and Artyom Zhiltsov raised a combat alarm, sea drones were destroyed. These drones were raised by Russian sailors from the bottom of the sea and it turned out that these drones have Canadian-made navigation modules. These drones were launched from the coast in the Odessa area, and 1 drone was launched from a Ukrainian merchant ship that exported grain from Odessa along the "grain" corridor. This attack was successfully repulsed. As a result, the sea minesweeper Ivan Golubets received minor damage. A bononet fence was damaged, which closes the entrance to Sevastopol Bay. The Russian Ministry of Defense said the attacks on the Black Sea Fleet and on the Nord Stream gas pipelines were organized by British specialists located in the city of Ochakov. The Russian Armed Forces attacked the center in which British experts were preparing Ukrainian militants to attack the Black Sea Fleet.
    The "grain" deal is an agreement that Russia will not prevent Ukrainian ships from exporting grain from Odessa to poor African countries and developed Western countries in exchange for the ability of Russia to export grain and chemical fertilizers, contrary to Western sanctions policies. In response to the attack on the Black Sea Fleet, Russia first withdrew from the grain deal, and then, at the urgent request of Turkish President Recep Erdogan, returned to this deal.

    The offensive of the Ukrainian army in the Kharkiv region in September 2022 was stopped by the Russian army at the turn of the cities of Svatovo and Kremennaya. Fierce battles unfolded on the outskirts of Kherson. Russian artillery destroyed tank columns of Ukrainians in the open steppe. It resembled the Battle of Kursk. The armed forces of Ukraine damaged all bridges across the Dnieper near Kherson, which made it difficult to supply Russian troops and civilians. Kherson was threatened with flooding in the event of the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station dam.
    The civilian population of Kherson was evacuated to Russia. 30 thousand Russian soldiers near Kherson were under threat of encirclement, so General Surovikin on November 9, 2022 announced the need to withdraw Russian troops from Kherson from the right bank of the Dnieper to the left. This made it possible to avoid a catastrophe similar to the encirclement of the Red Army troops near Kyiv in 1941. On November 11, 2022, the withdrawal of Russian troops and military equipment from Kherson was completed. Russian troops blew up all bridges across the Dnieper in Kherson, including two spans of the Antonovsky bridge and a road bridge at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric station. Russian troops took up defense on the left bank of the Dnieper on pre-prepared defense lines.

    The Russian armed forces built powerful lines of defense with reinforced concrete fortifications along the entire line of defense in Ukraine. Ukrainians and among foreign mercenaries had large losses.
    They began to refuse to attack, so in the Ukrainian army they introduced barrage detachments of nationalists and mercenaries, who drove forward to slaughter untrained soldiers from territorial defense. Voters of the Luhansk Republic, Donetsk Republic, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions held referendums, where they voted overwhelmingly to join Russia. On September 30, this decision was made in Moscow. On September 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization. It was supposed to mobilize 300 thousand people, but in fact more were mobilized - 318 thousand people due to the large number of volunteers. This made it possible to overcome the backlog of the Russian army in the number of infantry, capture large cities, and conduct large operations to encircle. Russia began this war as a police operation with a small professional army, but the failures of the outbreak of war forced Russia to move to a mass army with the help of partial mobilization.
    The defense industry of Russia began to operate at full capacity. Vladimir Putin created the Special Coordination Council under the Government of the Russian Federation, which resembled the SDC (State Defense Committee) under Stalin, this SDC had emergency powers and turned the country into a single military camp. Vladimir Putin introduced martial law in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, Donetsk and Lugansk Republic.

    In December 2022, there was a turning point during the war. Russian troops built powerful echeloned lines of defense, dug into the ground. Near Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) there was a "Bakhmut meat grinder." The Russian private military company Wagner began to "grind" Ukrainian troops and Polish mercenaries. All Ukrainian reserves were ground near Bakhmut, without which it is impossible to organize a major offensive. Wagner Group is a Russian penalty battalion, fighters of this group are often recruited in Russian prisons from prisoners who receive early release after serving for 6 months and a very high salary, fighters of this group - these are attack aircraft, which in close combat prefer to act with knives, they have nothing to lose, they act desperately and never retreat without an order. Russian troops try to surround the defense nodes, for example, the city of Bakhmut, to cut the supply of ammunition, pull up reserves, export wounded. The use of tanks for encirclement today is complicated by the use of Javelin portable anti-tank missiles by infantry. In addition, there is a very dense development in Donbass, when one city passes into another, each of these cities can be turned into a defense hub and it is difficult to organize wide tank breakthroughs to encircle the enemy.
    The Ukrainian army, on the advice of the Americans, made a mistake when it continued to defend Bakhmut, despite the threat of encirclement. The Russian army was forced to conduct city battles, despite the fact that this is the most difficult type of battle. It is ineffective to use large masses of troops in city battles. This is fraught with large, unjustified losses. Therefore, the Russian army returned to the idea of separate assault groups. Something near a platoon tactical group reinforced with a tank, snipers, sappers or ATGM calculation. Separate assault groups are advancing through the streets of the city. At a distance, the main group is moving, including a reserve, self-propelled artillery, UAV calculation, command headquarters, fire control group. When one of the assault groups stumbles upon an enemy stronghold, it inevitably enters into battle, transfers coordinates to the command.
     
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    The senior commander, using attached aircraft, artillery, flamethrower systems, inflicts a fire defeat on the enemy, destroying the building, and the assault group cleans the ruins. If necessary, additional forces from the reserve are allocated to help the assault group, as well as to evacuate the wounded. At the same time, neighboring assault groups are moving forward, carrying out the coverage of the enemy stronghold. Such a maneuver significantly complicates the approach and maneuver of the enemy's reserves, as well as his withdrawal. This is an example of the classic scheme by which our troops operated, for example, during the second Chechen campaign. The Wagnerites, Marines, paratroopers are also mainly operating now. True, taking into account the realities of modern combat. The assault group, moving along the streets in the city building, is forced to adhere to certain rules. The armored vehicles are moving not in the head, but in the rear of the assault group. The infantry is divided into two columns. Columns move on different sides of the street, opposite each other. The arrows move staggered. The shooters protect armored vehicles from attacks by enemy grenade launchers. The infantry pays special attention to the windows of the basements, the first and last floors. It is necessary to mine possible directions of movement of the enemy. Victory over the enemy is consolidated only during the advance of the infantry. The victory of the Russian army in Bakhmut and Soledar was achieved by increasing the number of infantry. Unfortunately, it was the extreme lack of infantry that was one of the main reasons for the failures of the Russian army in the spring and summer of 2022. Unmanned vehicles allow continuous 24-hour surveillance of the battlefield for reconnaissance. It is the massive distribution of high-precision weapons in the future that should be decisive for conducting successful urban battles.
    So far, the Russian army has problems with the production and equipment of these high-precision means, which is why city battles take so long. The victory near Soledar and Bakhmut allowed the Russian army to shoot down, reduce optimism in the Ukrainian army and among the Western allies after their autumn successes near Kharkov and Kherson. [45] Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) was completely liberated by the Russian army on May 20, 2023, after 224 days of bloody fighting. [46] The losses of the Ukrainian army near Bakhmut alone reached 30,000 soldiers.

    Russian troops launched an offensive not only near Bakhmut (Artyomovsky), but also near Avdeevka, Maryinka and Ugledar. The urgent need for the Russian army to rather liberate these cities is that it is from Maryinka and Avdeevka that Ukrainian troops conduct brutal shelling of the civilian population of Donetsk. Russian troops use the successful experience gained near Artyomovsky near Avdeevka and Maryinka - they surround these cities and cut them off from supply.
    Russian artillery is adjusting its fire with unmanned aerial vehicles. Russian flamethrower systems TOS-1A the Solntsepyok burn out all living things in Ukrainian positions. The offensive near Ugledar did not develop so successfully. Marines of the Pacific Fleet suffered heavy losses here, but managed to gain a foothold in the suburbs of this city. The reason for this unsuccessful offensive is the mistakes of the commander of this Russian group, Rustam Muradov, for which he was dismissed [49]. In the battles for Ugledar, our servicemen had to change tactics and abandon frontal attacks. There is a systematic coverage of the city, our fighters come in from the flanks, slowly to minimize the loss of personnel.

    The development of Ukrainian air defense limited the flights of Russian aviation over the territory of Ukraine. To solve this problem, the Russian army used planning bombs and unmanned aerial vehicles ("kamikaze") "Lancet."
    The glide bomb consists of an old bomb weighing 500 or 1500 kilograms with wings and a guidance unit. And the usual "iron" (as the pilots call, for example, the FAB-500 bomb) turns into the most powerful high-precision ammunition that aircraft launch from a huge height without entering the enemy's air defense zone. And this "cast iron" flies 60-80 kilometers. This is not a Ukrainian quadcopter with a grenade. There are a lot of these powerful bombs in warehouses in Russia. The targets for planning bombs are primarily Ukrainian bridges, air defense systems, defense nodes, and so on. And then - in the work of the nail of the "season" - our barraging ammunition "Lancet" with a range of 40-70 kilometers. Ukrainian gunners were forced to build false guns from logs, put iron nets over their guns in order to protect themselves from being hit from above by the Lancet on their guns, but these nets were ineffective.
    The objects for the defeat of the Lancets are Ukrainian tanks, self-propelled guns, howitzers, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers. New tactics of the Russian army: Geran drones lure anti-aircraft missile systems on themselves. And after the Ukrainian air defense discovers itself, it is immediately hit by the Lancet. One Russian plane lures out air defense forces and a second Russian plane strikes Ukrainian air defenses.

    The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, estimated the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the beginning of the conflict until December 2022 as "over one hundred thousand" soldiers. The losses of Polish mercenaries during the 9 months of the special operation amounted to 1,200 people. The losses of the Russian army amounted to 5937 people killed, On September 21, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said during an interview. The ratio of losses of the Ukrainian army and the Russian army is 8 to 1 due to the superiority of Russian artillery over Ukrainian artillery. Ukrainian artillery in December began to experience a "shell famine." due to the difficulties of delivering shells by rail, these difficulties were the result of strikes on Ukrainian power plants. The leadership of the Ukrainian railway was forced to announce the transfer of some routes from electric traction to diesel. The Ukrainian army had superiority in the number of drones at the beginning of the special operation, but by December 2022 this superiority was eliminated by the Russian army. Reconnaissance drones aim artillery at the target. Attack drones hit a target, such as tanks and enemy artillery. Ukrainians used suicide bombers, whose hatches of tanks are welded by welding. But the crews of these tanks are also not fools and often prefer to surrender, for this they turn the turret of their tanks back or up when attacking the Russian trenches and knock SOS signals on the armor when they surrender.
    According to President Vladimir Putin, the ultimate goal of the special operation is the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, the lot is cast and Russia will go to the end to achieve this goal. Ukrainian propaganda lies and arranges provocations, Western propaganda picks up this false information during the psychological war against Russia.

    On January 12, 2023, the Wagner group surrounded Ukrainian troops in Soledar. The Russian army captured and cleaned up this city.
    By May 2023, the losses of the Ukrainian army exceeded 300 thousand soldiers. [60] The West decided to fight against Russia until the last Ukrainian. The Russian army has learned through missile and artillery strikes and drone attacks to destroy warehouses with the latest Western weapons, samples of the latest Western air defense systems, artillery and a cluster of Ukrainian troops made to attack Russian positions.

    On the night of May 16, in Kyiv, an American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system in Kyiv was hit by a high-precision strike with a dagger hypersonic missile. It turned out that this anti-aircraft missile system is completely powerless against hypersonic weapons. Britain handed over Storm Shadow long-range missiles to Kyiv. The Ukrainian army received missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 250-300 kilometers.


    The fourth stage of the special operation. Attempts to counter-attack Ukrainian troops and what it led to

    In the spring of 2023, NATO countries conducted a campaign to retrain Ukrainian soldiers and supplied the Ukrainian army with new models of modern Western weapons. Thus, NATO countries followed the path of escalation of the armed conflict.
     
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    The Russian army has learned through missile and artillery strikes and drone attacks to destroy warehouses with the latest Western weapons, samples of the latest Western air defense systems, artillery and a cluster of Ukrainian troops made to attack Russian positions.

    On the night of May 16, in Kyiv, an American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system in Kyiv was hit by a high-precision strike with a dagger hypersonic missile. It turned out that this anti-aircraft missile system is completely powerless against hypersonic weapons. [61] Britain handed over Storm Shadow long-range missiles to Kyiv. The Ukrainian army received missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 250-300 kilometers.

    Now all the liberated regions, the entire Donbass, almost the entire territory of Crimea - Sevastopol, Simferopol, Belgorod, Stary Oskol, Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh are under attack, British missiles do not reach the Crimean bridge.
    Russian air defenses know how to shoot down these British missiles, but it will not be possible to completely close the entire front from these cruise missiles, so there will be gaps through which the enemy will try to break through. The Storm Shadow missiles need planes to launch. [62] Kyiv first used Storm Shadow cruise missiles on May 12, 2023. The target was Lugansk. The missile strike was delivered by the Ukrainian Su-24, which flew under the cover of the MiG-29. Both aircraft were eventually shot down by Russian aircraft, but 2 British missiles reached their target.

    The Ukrainian army adhered to the old 2022-proven tactic of probing the Russian army's defenses with disparate attacks by airborne reconnaissance groups across the front line, detecting weaknesses in Russian defenses and delivering a decisive strike using tank wedges to cut the Russian defense line. In the fall of 2022, Ukrainians did it well when attacking near Kharkov and Kherson.
    But in 2023, the Russian army built powerful echeloned defense lines and minefields. In addition, in 2023, Russian aircraft dominated the air, which ruthlessly destroyed any accumulations of Ukrainian armored vehicles, making any major counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army impossible. The Ukrainian army had plans to surround the Wagner group in Bakhmut with two flank strikes, and even at first had little success in this direction, but this advance of the Ukrainians was stopped. As a result, it seems that Ukrainians manage to fulfill only the first part of their plan - to launch scattered weak strikes in order to probe the Russian defense, to carry out terrorist acts with the help of drones in Moscow and Belgorod, but they do not dare to launch dissecting strikes.

    On May 13, 2023, a powerful explosion occurred west of the Ukrainian city of Khmelnitsky, after which a huge "nuclear mushroom" was formed and the radiation background allegedly increased.
    As it became known later, this happened after Russia hit the Kalibr cruise missile on warehouses with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area. Thousands of depleted uranium shells could be stored there, which were supplied to Ukraine by the British for British Challenger tanks. This caused a terrible panic in Western Ukraine and Poland, although Ukrainians wanted to "scatter" this depleted uranium across the territory of Donbass in order to cause an "epidemic" of cancers. The British wanted to use these shells to penetrate the armor of Russian tanks. [65] The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, reacted to the threats of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with the phrase "We wait, we will meet, we will bury."

    The British Institute for Defense Research has published a report on the pros and cons of the Russian army after 1 year of war, on the conclusions from defeats: Our battalion-tactical groups suffered from a lack of infantry, were overloaded with equipment and were forced to retreat under the pressure of numerous Ukrainian infantry armed with machine guns and grenade launchers. The Russian response was to increase the number of specialized infantry, which is divided into three groups: "one-time," linear and assault. The "disposable" infantry, recruited from prisoners and mobilized, conducts continuous skirmishes with the enemy and reveals nodes of resistance and weak points in defense. The assault infantry breaks into the defense and then goes to the rear, and the linear infantry occupies the conquered positions of the enemy, defends and is shelled by Ukrainian artillery. All this allows you to reduce the number of losses among the trained and most valuable assault infantry, and the greatest losses fall on the units of the "one-time" infantry, which exhaust the enemy. All this allows you to save time on training infantry according to the standards of attack aircraft.
    The highest efficiency is the Russian marines (it has the best balance between infantry, artillery and armored vehicles), Wagner attack aircraft and the people's militia of the DPR and LPR (they have combat experience). The Russian Airborne Forces have insufficient armored vehicles. Russian sappers have shown high efficiency. Russian sappers mine the area and build 3 lines of fortifications. The Russians have ways to remotely mine the Ukrainian rear using the "Agriculture" multiple launch rocket systems.
    Russian armored vehicles today do not go into independent attacks, do not use tank wedges, but are used to support attacking infantry.
    Reducing the intensity of Russian artillery fire by increasing its accuracy by using Orlan-10 drones to adjust fire and Krasnopol shells with laser aiming. Russian artillery no longer seeks to create "lunar" landscapes and crush crushed stone.
    Russian guns often change positions to get away from retaliatory fire. A large role is played by kamikaze drones "Lancet" in the hunt for Ukrainian long-range artillery.
    Since the fall of last year, anti-aircraft gunners began to build interaction between S-300 and S-400 complexes and short-range complexes "Tor" and "Pantsir-S." It turned out echeloned defense, which equally copes well with the destruction of aviation at long distances, and with the reflection of combined attacks on the air defense systems themselves, including the use of anti-radar missiles. The maximum range of defeat of the Ukrainian aircraft was 150 km, while this aircraft went at an altitude of only 15 meters. Ukrainian pilots turned into one-time suicide bombers. About 10 thousand Ukrainian drones become victims of the Russian electronic warfare system every month.
    The long-promised Ukrainian offensive began on June 4, 2023. The enemy delivered the main blow in the south-Donetsk direction on the Vremenskiy ledge.
    The Ukrainian offensive ended to no avail and heavy losses from the Ukrainian army. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost more than 3.7 thousand militants and 52 tanks in three days of hostilities. In the course of repelling the Ukrainian offensive, 71 Russian soldiers died, 15 Russian tanks were shot down. [68] Among the destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicles were 8 German Leopards and 3 French wheeled tanks. Russian K 52 helicopters used long-range Vikhr missiles against tanks, capable of hitting targets from a distance of 6-7 km. Being at such a distance, the helicopter is able to work on targets without entering the zone of defeat of the same Stingers. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia Valery Gerasimov was at the "forward point" during the large-scale offensive of Ukrainian troops in the South Donetsk direction.

    The second blow was delivered by the Ukrainian army near the city of Orekhov on the night of June 8, 2023.
    Four columns of armored vehicles were bogged down in minefields and were defeated by artillery, aviation, tanks, thermobaric charges of the Solntsepyokov and anti-tank missiles Kornet of the Russian infantry.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on June 16 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) about the huge losses of the Ukrainian army during the Ukrainian offensive - 186 tanks and 418 armored vehicles. Among the destroyed armored vehicles, German Leopard tanks and American Bradley armored vehicles are of particular value. [72] According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian army lost 7,500 of its soldiers in 10 days of unsuccessful counteroffensive. [73]

    Armed rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the private military company Wagner
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    Since the spring of 2023, the founder of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin began accusing the Russian Ministry of Defense of corruption and creating an artificial shortage of ammunition. In February, Prigozhin was banned from recruiting prisoners.
    On June 10, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu issued an order according to which all members of volunteer detachments must conclude a contract with the Ministry of Defense by July 1. To this Prigozhin replied that none of the Wagner fighters would go "along the path of shame."
    On the afternoon of June 23, Prigozhin said that the SVO was "mediocre planned," President Vladimir Putin received inappropriate reports on the plans of Ukraine and NATO to attack Russia, and a special operation was needed for the career of Shoigu and oligarchs who wanted to appoint Viktor Medvedchuk as president of Ukraine.
    Reason for the conflict: on the evening of June 23, Prigozhin reported missile attacks on PMC camps and accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of this. The ministry denied the message, but Prigozhin said that Defense Minister Shoigu personally arrived in Rostov to give the order to strike at the Wagner camps, and also that the PMC decided to crack down on the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and will destroy everyone who appears on its way.
    The FSB qualified the statement as a call for an armed rebellion and called on Wagner fighters to detain Prigozhin, who said in response that "this is not a military coup, but a march of justice," and his "actions do not interfere with the troops in any way."

    The course of the conflict: on June 24, Wagner entered Rostov-on-Don, after which Prigozhin accused the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov of giving the order to bomb PMC columns from aircraft. Wagner takes control of the headquarters of the Southern Military District, the FSB building, the police department and the Rostov city administration. "Exorbitant ambitions led to treason" - on the morning of June 24, President Putin made such an appeal. He called what was happening an armed rebellion, betrayal and a "stab in the back" and promised that the perpetrators would be punished. Air strikes began on Wagner columns. Nevertheless, they were already in the Tula region. 4-5 thousand Wagnerites (reportedly led by commander Utkin) made their way to Moscow through barriers from old trucks placed on their way.

    The outcome of the conflict: On the evening of June 24, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held talks with Prigozhin, as a result of which Prigozhin announced that he was deploying his armed forces and taking them to rear camps in exchange for guarantees for Wagnerites. According to Dmitry Peskov's statement, the criminal case against Prigozhin is being closed, and he is leaving for Belarus, in fact, in exile, the fighters of the Wagner PMC (now, obviously, the former) are being released from criminal prosecution and continue to serve, as Shoigu demanded, under contracts with the RF Ministry of Defense, Shoigu and Gerasimov remain in their posts. As a result of the clashes, 15 Russian servicemen were killed, most of whom were crew members of seven wrecked air ports, including the IL-18 aircraft and the Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter.
     
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    victory is coming soon, because Ukrainians were united by Epiphanius and NATO
     
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    It turns out that to speak Russian is to betray Lviv and Lutsk
     
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    I rather doubt that defending Bakhmut was on the advice of the Americans. That debacle sounds like it was all Zelenskyy's doing.
     
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    Ukrainian is the language of clowns like Zelensky's clown.
    NATO tanks, together with Ukrainian traitors, are burning in Ukraine today
     
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    Ukrainians are American puppets, Ukrainians carried out the order of the Americans to capture Bakhmut.
     

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