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TLDR Wagner returning to positions after deal is met with the Kremlin. Wagner will sign a contract with the Defense Ministry. All charges against Prigozhin will be dropped.

  • Abigail@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    What could the deal possibly entail that would make them immediately turn back? So curious

  • steebo_jack@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Well putin still has rockets he can rain down on them if he chose to and unlike ukraine they dont have western rockets to defent them…i think prigozhin better learn to fly soon…and mercs are generally a bad idea unless you run them…

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      and mercs are generally a bad idea unless you run them…

      Well the entire affair is basically a Prigozin response to Russia wanting to run them closer so they do know that. Interestingly enough his gamble was apparently to check if Russian government is really as weak as western and UA media says and the support in army is crumbling. It turned out that propaganda is wishful thinking and nobody outside Wagner Group supported the endeavour and afaik even a lot of Wagner personnel said they didn’t sign up for that.

      But, neither side could just admit they were in wrong so that’s why Lukashenko proposal came in and now they can just talk and resolve it one way or another.

      • Remowat@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Just that this is a wild turnaround to happen in 24 hours. I think everyone was expecting this to be much larger.

        • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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          2 years ago

          I think he thought was going to get support from Russia’s military and he didn’t, so this is the best he can get without getting him getting MIA’ed.