Russia - threadbanned users in OP

A fair oul pantomime today for the Russian residents and families who have those killed in Ukraine.

Onto the next 200k killed.

Who do the Russian public follow now if they want Putin stopped?

Only one came out of this supposedly alright was Lukashenko with his supposedly peace deal between the two.

Prigozhin for puppet president of Belarus.

Lukashenko for president of Russia.

canon fodder for the next meat grinder assault.

They will kill him eventually. They won't risk him making a come back.

Say what you want about Putin he started the day looking like he was about to lose power and ended it in a stronger position with the pretender banished to Belarus.

He's like that one turd that won't flush.

Well that was the nuttiest 24hrs I've witnessed in my lifetime. If the writers on cornation Street came up with that they'd crumple it up and throw it in the bin for being too ridiculous.

Any wagernites or Russian defectors must feel very let down tonight. They've been left right in the shìt and will now always be looking over their shoulder for retribution. This will have done untold damage to the war effort on the frontline

But will soldiers on the frontline now see there is no point downing arms as it will get you nowhere?

I don’t see how any of this works in Ukraines favour.

It doesn't it's a disaster for Ukraine. If this rumbled on the days or weeks they could have made their move as the counter offensive looks to be not going as expected. Now all the focus is back on the war.

Incorrect. It is not a disaster.

In the very worst case:

• Putin will have to pull thousands of troops and equipment from the frontline to prevent something like this happening again.
• They lost 6 helicopters, a plane and bombed their own oil depot.
• The main hub for all their supply routes (Rostov on Don) to southern Ukraine were frozen for all of this. And probably still are.(At a time when their main supply route from Crimea was also destroyed the day prior)
• Putin looks like an absolute moron in front of his people. After basically locking down all Moscow and throwing trucks filled with sand and cars on the road to stop Wagner and promising retribution for these crimes. He now has no explanation to give that will make sense.

Yes its not the beginning of the end of the war we were all hoping for. But it required no input from Ukraine at all and honestly if I were a betting man I would bet we haven't seen the tail end of this bizarre day play out yet.

Either it was a coke and vodka fueled “look at me” or he was promised support that didn’t materialize.

Obviously there maybe be another option.

But there is no civil war.

We don't know what really was going on behind the scenes. Prigoz might presumably have been banking on support that never materialised. The whole thing seems incredibly illogical from an outside perspective but there was logic behind the move, it obviously didn't work out as hoped.

Bit of an Operation Valkyrie basically.

Regardless whole thing is a massive embarrassment to Putin.