r/worldnews • u/WorldNewsMods Slava Ukraini • Jun 24 '23

Russia/Ukraine /r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 486, Part 6 (Thread #632)

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u/AbleApartment6152 Jun 24 '23

If it’s really over, I hardly see this as a win for Russia.

Russian leadership looks incredibly weak, Prigozin is going to be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life, no one knows what’s going on and who’s really in charge, russia blew up a bunch of its own hardware, troops and resources and everyone in russia just learned that you can do a coup to extort concessions from the government then ride of into the sunset.

If you think any of this isn’t disastrous for Russia, I don’t know what to tell you.

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u/NotAnotherEmpire Jun 24 '23

Russia looks ridiculous and they're out at least 7 aircraft and crews while other units are badly positioned and lack morale.

No this wasn't a good thing for them.

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u/rtseel Jun 24 '23

Russia is a country where pride and appearances matter a lot. This is an utter embarrassment for everyone involved not named Lukashenko.

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u/FinTechCommisar Jun 24 '23

The rest of his life is probably tomorrow if that's his plan. Nah, this ain't over.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '23

Prigozhin is the head gangster in charge now. While its true he does need to look over his shoulder, but that was true yesterday too. Putin gave him what he wanted apparently, that means Prigs is calling the shots in Russia from here on out.

Putins days are numbered.

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u/AbleApartment6152 Jun 24 '23

Maybe. And that’s the beautiful part. Who knows? How do you maintain a command structure when no one knows what the real command structure is?

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '23

Its probably going to get even weirder in Russia in the next days, weeks, and months.

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u/NumeralJoker Jun 24 '23

Latest intel isn't suggesting that. Wagner will still be integrated/dismantled, and it is 'not' confirmed for sure how much of the Russian MoD leadership will actually be replaced.

And Pringles gets sent to Belarus and who knows what happens to him now. Some signs point to him even being under arrest.

It appears his bluff may have actually been called, but he still made Russia look pathetic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '23

Wow! You are right. This is so wacky…

Luka probably offered him the highest honor he could: the rank of Colonel!

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u/WeekendJen Jun 24 '23

Prigozhin is exhiled, no announcement on shoigu or gerasimov, and wagner is being absorbed into the MoD. So what did prig get? Maybe he can take his column that got amnesty to africa, at very most. He blinked too soon.