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There were reports that the elite russian airborne company vdv was threatening action if their leader was arrested/killed. Is there going to be any blowback from subordinates loyal to prighozin, or should we be expecting a mass-defenestration?

I wonder what that douche was thinking on the way down… Kinda putin’s m.o. he likes people falling from high places. maybe we’ll find out prighozin was sucked out of the window as the plane went down, lol.

Vanity Fair Melania’s Take on Donald Trump’s Fourth Indictment Is Basically “Sucks to Be You, Pal”: Report According to a person who knows Melania socially, the ex-president’s latest legal woes are “a problem for [him]” not “for her. In the days since Donald Trump was indicted by the Fulton County district attorney’s office for trying to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, you may have found yourself wondering what the ex-president’s third wife, Melania Trump, thinks about the most recent criminal charges against her husband, and the fact that he’s now facing a whopping 91 felony counts. And the answer apparently is that, much like her reported feelings following Trump’s first, second, and third indictments, Melania’s take is basically: Sucks to be you, pal. In a new report that would almost have the potential to make one feel bad for Donald Trump, were Donald Trump not legitimately one of the worst people on earth, a “social source” connected to the former first lady told Peoplethat “this fourth indictment is another problem for her husband,” and not a problem “for her.” The person added that Melania “wants nothing to do with any of it,” preferring instead to “lead…her own life.” (Lest you start thinking this Mel character, what with her “Another indictment? That’s a shame. Oh, well, gotta jump,” sounds a lot less terrible than you’d previously heard, know that she also reportedly believes “there has been too much dumping on” Trump.) And when sources say Melania leads her own life, they don’t mean she, like, has her own hobbies but still spends a significant amount of quality time with her husband, especially when he is at his most vulnerable. They mean that, at a minimum, she keeps a river’s length distance between herself and the guy she’s married to:

Newsweek : Russia Preps Elite Unit for Bakhmut 'Slaughter' Amid Mutiny Fears: Report Russia is prepping its elite airborne forces, the VDV, to be deployed to Donbas hot spots in eastern Ukraine amid fears its troops could start a coup, an alleged leak of a secret memo obtained by Russian dissident in exile, Vladimir Osechkin, appears to show. Osechkin, a Russian human rights activist who runs the anti-corruption website Gulagu.net, said he received a secret memo from a source purporting to be from Russia's General Staff. The letter, which Newsweek couldn't immediately verify, appears to be addressed to President Vladimir Putin's top general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

AP News: https://apnews.com/article/eafa1696fc5f2377cb83ac4b317c5386 17 mins ago TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Traffic on the key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia’s mainland has been halted amid reports of explosions. The governor of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, announced the closure early Monday but did not specify the reason. News reports said local residents heard explosions before dawn, but there was no confirmation. The 19-kilometer (12-mile) bridge that was opened in 2018 is the main land connection between Russia and the Crimean peninsula.

To get everyone to look away from where we should be focused. I’m hoping no one took their eyes off of zaporizhzhia and the border with Belarus.

I’m of the same mind as CC84. this all feels like a giant misdirection.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-soldiers-corpses-line-road-into-liberated-ukrainian-village-2023-06-14/ Russian soldiers' corpses line road into liberated Ukrainian village STOROZHEVE, Ukraine, June 14 (Reuters) - The road into the newly liberated Ukrainian village of Storozheve is lined with the corpses of Russian soldiers and burnt-out armoured vehicles. The grisly scenes bear witness to the ferocity of fighting as Ukrainian troops recaptured Storozheve and several other villages in the past few days as part of a counteroffensive in southern and eastern Ukraine. Some of the dead Russian soldiers lay on the dusty ground beside the husks of their vehicles when Reuters journalists reached the village on Wednesday. Others were crumpled in the grass and fields nearby where they died.

Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-himars-vladimir-putin-russia-counteroffensive-semyon-pegov-1805208

https://apple.news/ADziNmrfTTyyAf2wfWRyv2A Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says THE DISCORD LEAKS | Yevgeniy Prigozhin said he would tell Ukraine’s military where to attack Russian troops if they pulled their own forces back from the beleaguered city of Bakhmut, where Wagner mercenaries were taking heavy losses In late January, with his mercenary forces dying by the thousands in a fight for the ruined city of Bakhmut, Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prigozhin made Ukraine an extraordinary offer. Prigozhin said that if Ukraine’s commanders withdrew their soldiers from the area around Bakhmut, he would give Kyiv information on Russian troop positions, which Ukraine could use to attack them. Prigozhin conveyed the proposal to his contacts in Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, with whom he has maintained secret communications during the course of the war, according to previously unreported U.S. intelligence documents leaked on the group-chat platform Discord. Prigozhin has publicly feuded with Russian military commanders, who he furiously claims have failed to equip and resupply his forces, which have provided vital support to Moscow’s war effort. But he is also an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who might well regard Prigozhin’s offer to trade the lives of Wagner fighters for Russian soldiers as a treasonous betrayal. The leaked document does not make clear which Russian troop positions Prigozhin offered to disclose. Two Ukrainian officials confirmed that Prigozhin has spoken several times to the Ukrainian intelligence directorate, known as HUR. One official said that Prigozhin extended the offer regarding Bakhmut more than once, but that Kyiv rejected it because officials don’t trust Prigozhin and thought his proposals could have been disingenuous. A U.S. official also cautioned that there are similar doubts in Washington about Prigozhin’s intentions. The Ukrainian and U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information. In an interview with The Washington Post this month, Zelensky would not confirm the contacts with Prigozhin. “This is a matter of [military] intelligence,” he said. The Ukrainian leader also objected to airing classified information publicly and said he believed that the leaks had benefited Russia. But there is no debating Prigozhin’s bitter frustration with the grinding fight in Bakhmut. He has complained, publicly and privately, that the Russian defense ministry has not given his fighters the ammunition and other resources they need to succeed. Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. Over the past few months, in a grinding back and forth measured by city blocks, Ukrainian and Russian forces have taken steep casualties. Prigozhin, who promised to take control of the city by May 9, in time for Russia’s Victory Day celebrations, has recently threatened publicly to pull his forces out of the fight. Other leaked documents reveal Russian defense ministry officials privately wondering how to respond to Prigozhin’s criticism of the military’s performance and his demands for more resources, which they apparently conceded were not illegitimate grievances. The documents also speak to a power struggle between Prigozhin and top officials, including Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Against that tense backdrop, Prigohzin has carried on a secret relationship with Ukrainian intelligence that, in addition to phone calls, includes in-person meetings with HUR officers in an unspecified country in Africa, one document states. Wagner forces provide security to several governments on the continent. The leaked U.S. intelligence shows Prigozhin bemoaning the heavy toll that fighting has taken on his own forces and urging Ukraine to strike harder against Russian troops. According to one document, Prigozhin told a Ukrainian intelligence officer that the Russian military was struggling with ammunition supplies. He advised Ukrainian forces to push forward with an assault on the border of Crimea, which Russia has illegally annexed, while Russian troop morale was low. The report also referred to other intelligence noting that Prigozhin was aware of plummeting morale among Wagner forces and that some of his fighters had balked at orders to deploy in the Bakhmut area under heavy fire, for fear of suffering more casualties. The Kremlin did not respond to a request for comment about Prigozhin’s communications with Ukraine. In wartime, it is not unusual for opposing parties to maintain some form of communication. And the documents don’t reveal Prigozhin’s intention in talking to his erstwhile foes in Ukraine. In an interview, a Ukrainian official characterized the contacts in the spirit of “keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.” The documents also suggest that Kyiv suspects, or may know, that the Kremlin is aware of Prigozhin’s communications with Ukrainian intelligence, if not his secret negotiations over Bakhmut. One document, based on “sigint” — or intercepted communications — states that Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kyrolo Budanov, “expected the Russians to use details of Prigozhin’s secret talks with the HUR and his meetings with their officers in Africa to make him appear to be a Ukrainian agent.” It doesn’t specify whether Budanov suspects Moscow may already know that Prigozhin is talking to HUR officers. When informed that U.S. intelligence documents revealed Prigozhin’s communications with Ukrainian intelligence, the mercenary commander appeared to make light of the situation. “Yes of course I can confirm this information, we have nothing to hide from the foreign special services. Budanov and I are still in Africa,” Prigohzin wrote on Sunday via his Telegram channel. Budanov didn’t immediately respond to a question about Prigohzin’s offer to disclose Russian troop positions

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-ukraine-made-mass-attempts-break-through-bakhmut-defences-2023-05-14/

Isn’t dismissal the russian word for falling out of a window?

God, that so ****ing terrible, i’m super sorry about your loss and what you’re dealing with. I sincerely you deal gently with yourself.

I’m sure the guy that made this decision thought his clever plan all the way through and it won’t come back to bite him in the ass at all.

I remember that story.

Ukrainian born chicks apparently are just badasses with a sniper rifle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko I’ve believed for a while that women are better students when it comes to things like learning how to shoot because in general they actually take the time to learn the fundamentals and don’t just assume they know how to use a gun because they happened to be born with a dick. But that’s just a personal belief.

Let me know when you get here, I’ll chauffeur you around. Also, you will probably need more than one noose.

I guess the other thing I’m curious about is, if Poland does decide it was a act of war against them, since it was russia, doesn’t that basically mean that by default NATO has to assist them if they decide to retaliate? im sure there would be a lot of countries on the NATO side telling them to chill, and I’m sure there’s language in the treaty to define an act of war, but that seems to be Polands choice at the moment.

Is there a deescaltion mechanism that russia is likely to use? I don’t know that the Poles are disposed to let it go lightly.

Dems take the senate! reuters: Democratic U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has won re-election in Nevada, Edison Research projected on Saturday in a victory that guarantees the Senate will be controlled by Democrats in 2023.

Hobbs is up by about 32k. She’ll net another 20k just from the 100k ballots left in Pima county. I can’t believe they’re going to let that one go for much longer without someone calling it for her even if lake is a election denying moron.

Just called for Kelly. PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly won his bid for reelection Friday in the crucial swing state of Arizona, defeating Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters to put his party one victory away from clinching control of the chamber for the next two years of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Defeating satan just in time for Christmas would be a hell of a present for baby Jesus.