We need to prepare for the crack up of the Putin empire, in Russia and Prigozhin warned of revolt: Marjorie Greene will try to save Putin, FTR
Greene would gladly be the new Quisling, of America to aid in the subjugation of the West, but while she is at it, as well as Tucker Carlson, there is a counter narative.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an interview with Konstantin Dolgov, a pro-Russian blogger, that Moscow’s troops are unprepared to resist forces loyal to Kyiv even when?they enter Russian territory.
He also praised the capabilities of the Ukrainian army, and urged Moscow to escalate its war effort if it wants to avoid a long and costly conflict.
“I believe Ukrainians today are one of the strongest armies in the world,” Prigozhin said. He called Kyiv’s forces “highly organized, highly trained and their intelligence is on the highest level, they can operate any military system with equal success, a Soviet or a NATO one.”
In recent days Moscow suffered embarrassment when a group of anti-Putin Russians entered the Belgorod region in an incursion that caused anger and confusion among Russia’s influential military analysts. Asked about the incident, Prigozhin said Russian defense forces are “absolutely not ready to resist them in any shape or form.”
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Whereas
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On 6 April 2023, the Russian Volunteer Corps again claimed to have crossed the border into Bryansk Oblast, entering the village of?Sluchovsk. While Russian authorities claimed that an attempted incursion was prevented, the Russian Volunteer Corps released video showing them inside the village. During the incursion, combat operations were allegedly carried out.[21]
Belgorod Oblast attack
Main article:?2023 Belgorod Oblast attack
In May 2023, the RVC and the?Freedom of Russia Legion?launched an?incursion into Russia, this time in?Grayvoronsky District,?Belgorod Oblast; videos that circulated online showed armed men who said they belonged to the RVC saying they had crossed the border to fight "the bloody Putinite and Kremlin regime".[22]?The governor of Belgorod Oblast said that a Ukrainian "sabotage group" had entered the region and authorities said that a "counterterrorism regime" was introduced.[23]
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It appears that it will take more than Marjorie (Putin can do no wrong) Greene to get Vladimir Putin out of this sticky wicket
However, the cracks are beginning to show in the Putin Empire and the EU, NATO and the rest of the world need to be prepared for a different geo political reality
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Russian Volunteer Corps
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russian Volunteer CorpsРусский добровольческий корпусLeadersDenis "White Rex" NikitinDates of operationAugust 2022 – presentAllies?Ukraine
FlagWebsiteRussian Volunteer Corps?on?Telegram
The?Russian Volunteer Corps?(RVC;?Russian:?Русский добровольческий корпус, РДК,?romanized:?Russkiy dobrovolcheskiy korpus, RDK) is a?Russian nationalist?paramilitary?unit based in Ukraine. It was formed in August 2022, during the?Russian invasion of Ukraine, to fight against Russian forces and the?regime of Vladimir Putin.[1][2][3]?The group reportedly consists of?Russian emigrants?who are primarily united by their opposition to Putin.[1]?The group claims to be part of Ukraine's armed forces, but Ukrainian military officials say it is independent.[1]?The group has been described as far-right.[1][3][4]
It claimed responsibility for?a March 2023 raid?into?Bryansk Oblast, Russia. The Russian government claimed a Ukrainian group carried out the cross-border "terrorist attack". The Ukrainian government denied involvement, calling it either a?false-flag?operation or an attack by?anti-government partisans within Russia. In May 2023, it reportedly took part in a larger cross-border?raid into the Belgorod region?of Russia, alongside the?Freedom of Russia Legion.
Origin and aims
The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) was founded in August 2022.[5]?The RVC announced its formation with a statement released on a newly-created?Telegram channel, which read in part:
"We Russian volunteers living in Ukraine have decided to take up arms and create a military formation?– the Russian Volunteer Corps?– so that, together with our Ukrainian comrades-in-arms, we can defend their homeland, which shelters us, and then continue the fight against Putin's criminal regime.[1]?... To divert the attention of the population from internal political problems, the [Russian] regime offered society another bond?– the concept of the 'Russian world', although for some reason it decided to build it on the territory of Ukraine, and not in Moscow, which has not been part of such a world for a long time."[6]
The RVC states that it is made up of ethnic Russians fighting to defend Ukraine against?Russia's invasion?and to overthrow the?Russian regime of Vladimir Putin.[1]?It says Russia's government should abandon its?imperial ambitions?and instead focus on improving the well-being of ethnic Russians.[6][7]?The RVC believe in?self-determination?for Russia's various ethnic minorities and "want to see a smaller, ethnic Russian state".[4]?Nikitin explained that?Russian nationalism?"has turned completely the wrong way" and posted a video urging?white nationalists?to fight Putin because Russia had turned into a?police state.[1]?Nikitin spoke negatively about Ukrainian president?Volodymyr Zelenskyy?because he is Jewish and "promotes the worst of liberal values", but said that Putin is worse.[1]
According to the Ukrainian news agency?Glavcom, the RVC was formed by Russian volunteers who had started fighting for Ukraine in the?Azov Regiment?and other units in 2014.[8]?According to Polish news agency?Vot Tak, unlike the?Freedom of Russia Legion, the leadership of the RVC does not rely on Russian POWs-turned-defectors, but on Russian right-wing?emigrants?living in Ukraine.[9]?The RVC uses the symbols of the?Russian Liberation Army, which collaborated with?Nazi Germany?during?World War II.[4][9]
The founder and leader of the group is Denis Nikitin (real surname Kapustin), who has been described in media as a neo-Nazi football hooligan.[10][11][12]?He was born in Moscow, and moved to Germany in 2001 and lived there for several years; he returned to Russia in 2008 and founded the clothing brand White Rex before moving to Ukraine in 2017, where he was involved with far-right movements.[11][13][14][15]?According to?Reuters, he has described himself as a "nationalist fighting for a Russia that belongs to ethnic Russians" but "has rejected the neo-Nazi and white supremacist characterisations".[4]
Affiliations
According to?Ilya Ponomarev, a political head of the?Russian National Republican Army, the RVC took part in a press conference on 31 August 2022 with the?Freedom of Russia Legion?and the National Republican Army when they signed?a joint declaration. He claimed that the Russian Volunteer Corps also agreed to join the agreement.[16][17]
In October 2022, the Russian Volunteer Corps published its manifesto, identifying itself as "part of Ukraine's Armed Forces", although Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment.[11][18]?In March 2023, Ukrainian military officials said the RVC was an independent group.[1]?Ilya Ponomarev, political representative of the Freedom of Russia Legion, said the RVC has contacts with the Ukrainian military but operates in a "gray area".[1]
Claimed attacks
Bryansk Oblast raid
Main article:?2023 Bryansk Oblast raid
On 2 March 2023, the Russian authorities claimed that an armed Ukrainian group crossed?the border?and carried out a "terrorist attack" in the villages of?Lyubechane?and?Sushany, in?Bryansk Oblast. Russia said the attackers fired on a car, killing two civilians, before the?Federal Security Service?forced them back into Ukraine.[19]?On 9 March, Russia launched a barrage of missile strikes at Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in what it called "retaliation" for the attack.[20]?The Russian Volunteer Corps claimed responsibility for the alleged cross-border raid, and posted videos of armed men in Lyubechane with their insignia, urging Russians to "rise up and fight" against the government.[11]
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Ukrainian officials denied involvement, saying it was either a Russian?false flag?attack or a case of Russians rebelling against their government.[2]
On 6 April 2023, the Russian Volunteer Corps again claimed to have crossed the border into Bryansk Oblast, entering the village of?Sluchovsk. While Russian authorities claimed that an attempted incursion was prevented, the Russian Volunteer Corps released video showing them inside the village. During the incursion, combat operations were allegedly carried out.[21]
Belgorod Oblast attack
Main article:?2023 Belgorod Oblast attack
In May 2023, the RVC and the?Freedom of Russia Legion?launched an?incursion into Russia, this time in?Grayvoronsky District,?Belgorod Oblast; videos that circulated online showed armed men who said they belonged to the RVC saying they had crossed the border to fight "the bloody Putinite and Kremlin regime".[22]?The governor of Belgorod Oblast said that a Ukrainian "sabotage group" had entered the region and authorities said that a "counterterrorism regime" was introduced.[23]
See also
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And here is radio mouth,
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Wagner chief warns Russians could revolt if invasion continues to struggle
By?Rob Picheta?and?Mariya Knight, CNN
Published 2:37 PM EDT, Wed May 24, 2023
Wagner chief says Russian defense forces "not ready to resist" anti-Putin fighters inside Russia
02:18?- Source:?CNN
CNN?—?
A new “revolution” could rock Russia if its stuttering war effort in Ukraine continues, the chief of private?military group Wagner?has said, in a scathing assessment of Moscow’s military readiness that could further expose divisions in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military hierarchy.
Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an interview with Konstantin Dolgov, a pro-Russian blogger, that Moscow’s troops are unprepared to resist forces loyal to Kyiv even when?they enter Russian territory.
He also praised the capabilities of the Ukrainian army, and urged Moscow to escalate its war effort if it wants to avoid a long and costly conflict.
“I believe Ukrainians today are one of the strongest armies in the world,” Prigozhin said. He called Kyiv’s forces “highly organized, highly trained and their intelligence is on the highest level, they can operate any military system with equal success, a Soviet or a NATO one.”
In recent days Moscow suffered embarrassment when a group of anti-Putin Russians entered the Belgorod region in an incursion that caused anger and confusion among Russia’s influential military analysts. Asked about the incident, Prigozhin said Russian defense forces are “absolutely not ready to resist them in any shape or form.”
Prigozhin (center) has claimed that his Wagner forces captured Bakhmut after a months-long struggle that caused vast amounts of Russian losses.
Prigozhin's Press Service/Telegram
“Here we are with Ukraine, that is our enemy, in the middle of the war, Russian Volunteer Corps groups come in effortlessly and go through (the border) in tanks and APCs without any repercussions and make their own videos if it,” the Wagner chief vented.
Prigozhin has frequently criticized Russia’s traditional military hierarchy as he sought to win a power struggle against military commanders to lead Putin’s ground effort in eastern Ukraine. Earlier this month he blamed Russian defense chiefs for “tens of thousands” of Wagner casualties because they didn’t have enough ammunition.
But his comments to Dolgov were alarmist even for the free-wheeling Putin ally. As he has frequently done, Prigozhin urged Moscow to step up its war in order to defeat Ukraine – urging Putin to “declare a martial law and a new wave of mobilization.”
He warned that if Russian losses continue to mount, “all these divisions can end in what is a revolution, just like in 1917.”
“First the soldiers will stand up, and after that – their loved ones will rise up. It is wrong to think that there are hundreds of them – there are already tens of thousands of them – relatives of those killed,” he said. “And there will probably be hundreds of thousands – we cannot avoid that.”
Russian forces, primarily made up of Wagner troops, have labored for months over the capture of Bakhmut – a city in Ukraine’s east of relatively insignificant strategic value, where Russia has suffered vast losses – and its larger ground campaign has been in stalemate since a string of successful Ukrainian counter-attacks last autumn.
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Andrew Beckwith, PhD