please post any subsequent updates here unless they’re huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don’t have to be their own thread

    •  JCPhoenix   ( @JCPhoenix@beehaw.org ) 
      22•1 year ago

      Have you been following the war in Ukraine at all in the last 16mo? If not, that’s surprising, but understandable.

      Anyway, Prigozhin and his Wagner PMC group of mercenaries have been talked about consistently since the beginning. In the last ~6mo or so, he’s been constantly in the eyes of the (Western) media as his rhetoric against the Russian military leadership—not against Putin, though—has steadily been increasing all the way to this sudden outbreak of internecine violence.

      Aside from Putin, he’s basically been the #2 face of this war from the Russian side, at least in Western media, over even Russia MoD head Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, who’s the Chief of Staff of the Russian military, who are supposedly in charge of prosecuting this war.