Yeah following that on Twitter was pretty surreal. Like you were sorta cheering for him because you wanted Putin to burn but also afraid he would get hands on some nukes and just go Yosemite Sam on Ukraine
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I think he counted on regular military units joining his coup which didn’t materialize. At that point to keep going also meant certain death.
prigozhin was a criminal (property crime and violent crime) before he was a caterer. it’s unclear when putin met him, but it was probably through organized crime connections, i.e. putin needed something to be owned/managed, and prigozhin became the guy. catering business was his “legal” cover.
Looks Ukraine continues to manage to hit high value targets. Although headlines overall make it feel like there some internal stress among leadership and rest of world is about reaching their limits of patience on the war so gotta wonder how this all turns out.
Ukrainian military officer coordinated Nord Stream pipeline attack
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/11/nordstream-bombing-ukraine-chervinsky/
Not been seeing all that much Ukraine news lately, I’m sure largely because of Israel but do wonder how things going to play out. Wonder if both sides just kinda keeping at the grind (for lack of a better term) and waiting to see how next US election turns out?
The only significant news was the claim that Ukraine has established positions east of the river near Kherson. If they can hold and expand those then Russia has another front they need to defend with significantly more troops. Other than that it has become an economic grind between the West and Russia which could go on for years or until Trump wins.
The net change of territorial control over the past ~12 months has been 0.x% of Ukraine’s total land mass. Before Ukrainian forces established a bridgehead across the Dnipro there are only two major hotspots. Russia is trying to capture Avdiivka in the East no matter the cost and Ukraine was trying to break through around the first line of defense in thr South around Robotyne.
Soon winter will make large offensive operations impossible.
The West is still slow walking deliveries. The EU already announced that they likely won’t be able to provide the planned 1 million artillery shells which was already a really low number.
Budanov’s wife was poisoned with heavy metals. Not exactly the person Russia wants to piss off even more.
Seeing msn homepage articles today saying a Russian general got blown up by a land mine??
Yes, Russia has lost a surprising number of generals already.
But by landmine? What the heck going on with that
That’s according to Russian reporting so it might or might not be accurate. I haven’t read anything that specified if it was a Russian or Ukrainian landmine either. Russian generals during this invasion have been much more hands-on and closer to the frontline than usual.
Looks like it was a Russian mine and at a significant distance from the front line. Unclear how these two things go together. Someone speculated that Russia must be afraid of SOF.
Some videos down below show a massive explosion after it had been on fire and people claiming it was full of shaheed drones
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Russia launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine targeting hospitals, schools, shopping centers, apartment buildings. Most of the missiles were shot down but many reached their (civilian) targets.
Or as the NYT puts it:
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Yale maintains a list of how companies handle business with Russia (graded A-F):