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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
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There was news story the other day that Wagner captured a commander from the Russian army and has him prisoner.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...sian-commander
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Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group of mercenaries has captured a Russian commander, as the notorious leader further escalates his feud with the regular army.
In a video posted on Prigozhin’s social media channels on Monday evening, Lt Col Roman Venevitin, the commander of Russia’s 72nd Brigade, tells an interrogator that, while drunk, he had ordered his troops to fire on a Wagner convoy.
In the footage, which resembled clips of prisoner of war soldiers, Venevitin said he acted because of his “personal dislike” for Wagner and then apologised.
Last week, Prigozhin accused the Russian army of trying to blow up his men as they were pulling back from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut.
The businessman, who is best known as “Putin’s chef” because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, also claimed his men had discovered explosives, which he said were planted on purpose by defence ministry officials.
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It's one of the things that gives me hope that the Russian forces start falling apart. There have been some reports that Ukraine has almost as many Chechens fighting for them as Russia has. Even some of the Kadyrovites have switched sides and declared a jihad against Russia. Apparently there was supposed to be a new mosque built in Moscow but Russian nationalists protested and the project was cancelled. Karydov said that any Russian protesting should go to Ukraine and take the weapons from Chechens and fight in their place.
I would not be surprised if part of Ukraine's planned offensive includes working with collaborators on the other side to get through the fortifications. That is my hope anyway. I could be too optimistic though.