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Levi
May 6, 2023, 3:40:03 PM5/6/23
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> Wagner said to send Kamala to fuck all the troops.
Fierce battles in eastern Ukraine have thrown a new spotlight on Russia’s
Wagner Group, a private military company led by a rogue millionaire with
longtime links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Wagner has spearheaded the push to jump-start Russia’s stalemated
offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province. The ferocious house-to
house fighting has produced some of the bloodiest encounters since Russia
sent troops into Ukraine, with Wagner personnel “marching on the bodies of
their own soldiers” as Ukrainian authorities put it.
The U.S. this week expanded sanctions against Wagner for its role in
Ukraine and mercenary activities in Africa.
Here is a look at the Wagner Group’s history and its current role in the
fighting.
WHO OWNS THE WAGNER GROUP?
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who received a 12-year prison term in 1981 on charges
of robbery and assault, started a restaurant business in St. Petersburg
following his release from prison. It was in this capacity that he got to
know Putin, who served as the city’s deputy mayor in the 1990s.
Prigozhin, 61, used his ties with Putin to develop a catering business and
won lucrative Russian government contracts that earned him the nickname of
“Putin’s chef.” He later expanded to other businesses, including media
outlets and an infamous “troll factory” that led to his indictment in the
U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Prigozhin denied any link to the Wagner Group before he acknowledged
owning the company in September. This month, he declared he also founded,
led and financed it.
WHERE HAS WAGNER WORKED?
The Wagner Group was first spotted in action in eastern Ukraine soon after
a separatist conflict erupted there in April 2014, weeks after Russia’s
annexation of Crimea.
While backing the separatist insurgency in the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern
industrial heartland, Russia denied sending its own weapons and troops
there despite ample evidence to the contrary. Engaging private contractors
in the fighting allowed Moscow to maintain a degree of deniability.
Prigozhin’s company was called Wagner after the nickname of its first
commander, Dmitry Utkin, a retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian
military’s special forces.
It soon established a reputation for its extreme brutality and
ruthlessness.
Along with Ukraine, Wagner personnel deployed to Syria, where Russia
supported President Bashar Assad’s government in the country’s civil war.
In Libya, they fought alongside forces of Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter.
The group also has operated in the Central African Republic and Mali.
Prigozhin has reportedly used Wagner’s deployment to Syria and African
countries to secure lucrative mining contracts.
U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland told members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday that the company was using its
access to gold and other resources in Africa to fund its operations in
Ukraine.
Some Russian media have alleged Wagner’s involvement in the July 2018
killings of three Russian journalists, who were shot dead in the Central
African Republic while investigating the group’s activities there. The
slayings remain unsolved.
WHAT IS THE GROUP’S REPUTATION?
Western countries and United Nations experts have accused Wagner Group
mercenaries of committing numerous human rights abuses throughout Africa,
including in the Central African Republic, Libya and Mali.
In December 2021, the European Union accused the group of “serious human
rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions and killings,” and of carrying out “destabilizing activities”
in the Central African Republic, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.
Some of the reported incidents stood out in their grisly brutality.
A 2017 video posted online showed a group of armed people, reported to be
Wagner contractors, torturing a Syrian man, beating him to death with a
sledgehammer and cutting his head before mutilating and then burning his
body. Russian authorities ignored requests by the media and rights
activists to investigate the killing.
In November 2022, another video surfaced online that showed a former
Wagner contractor getting beaten to death with a sledgehammer after he
allegedly fled to the Ukrainian side and was recaptured. Despite public
outrage and a stream of demands for an investigation, the Kremlin turned a
blind eye to it.
WHAT IS WAGNER’S ROLE IN UKRAINE?
The Wagner Group has taken an increasingly visible role in the war in
Ukraine as regular Russian troops suffered heavy attrition and lost
control over some previously captured territory in a series of humiliating
setbacks.
Prigozhin claimed full credit this month for capturing the Donetsk region
salt-mining town of Soledar and accused the Russian Defense Ministry of
trying to steal Wagner’s glory. He said Wagner was spearheading the attack
on the city of Bakhmut, a nearby Ukrainian stronghold that Russian forces
have tried to win for months.
Prigozhin has toured Russian prisons to recruit fighters, promising
inmates pardons if they survived a half-year tour of front-line duty with
Wagner. He recently posted a video in which he congratulates the first
group of convicts that received official pardons and the right to leave
the company.
The U.S. estimates Wagner has about 50,000 personnel fighting in Ukraine,
including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 of the convicts the company
enlisted.
The U.S. assesses that Wagner is spending about $100 million a month in
the fight and has taken delivery of weapons from North Korea, including
rockets and missiles.
WHAT DO RUSSIA’S MILITARY BRASS THINK?
Wagner’s reach for North Korean weapons may reflect its long-running spat
with the Russian military leadership, which dates back to the company’s
creation.
A group of troops purported to be Wagner contractors on the front line in
Ukraine recently recorded a video in which they showered the chief of the
Russian military’s General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, with curses for
an alleged failure to provide ammunition.
Prigozhin himself castigated the top military brass in recent months,
accusing top-ranking officers of incompetence. His remarks were
unprecedented for Russia’s tightly-controlled political system, in which
only Putin could air such criticism.
Earlier this month, Putin reaffirmed his trust in Gen. Gerasimov by
putting him in direct charge of the Russian forces in Ukraine, a move that
some observers also interpreted as an attempt to cut Prigozhin down to
size.
Prigozhin somewhat toned down his harangues against the military
leadership after that, but remained defiant.
He also has increasingly raised his public profile, issuing daily
messaging app statements to boast about Wagner’s purported victories and
sardonically mock his enemies.
Asked recently about a media comparison of him with Grigory Rasputin, a
mystic who gained fatal influence over Russia’s last czar by claiming to
have the power to cure his son’s hemophilia, Prigozhin snapped: “I don’t
stop blood, but I spill blood of the enemies of our Motherland.”
HAS WAGNER BEEN SUBJECTED TO WESTERN SANCTIONS?
The U.S. slapped several waves of sanctions on Prigozhin and Wagner. The
Treasury Department further ramped up sanctions against Wagner and
affiliated companies and individuals on Thursday.
The European Union also has sanctioned Prigozhin and in December 2021
imposed sanctions on several people associated with Wagner and three
Russia-based energy companies linked to the group in Syria.
Prigozhin mocked the Western sanctions.
“We have conducted an internal check to look into alleged crimes by Wagner
but found no incriminating evidence,” he said, commenting on the latest
U.S. round.
He challenged Wagner’s accusers to send proof of wrondoing to his press
service.
<https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-wagner-group-yevgeny-prigozhin-
803da2e3ceda5dace7622cac611087fc?utm_source=apnews&utm_medium=relatedconte
ntmodule>
news:sg62ng$siv$2...@news.dns-netz.com:
> Wagner said to send Kamala to fuck all the troops.
Fierce battles in eastern Ukraine have thrown a new spotlight on Russia’s
Wagner Group, a private military company led by a rogue millionaire with
longtime links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Wagner has spearheaded the push to jump-start Russia’s stalemated
offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province. The ferocious house-to
house fighting has produced some of the bloodiest encounters since Russia
sent troops into Ukraine, with Wagner personnel “marching on the bodies of
their own soldiers” as Ukrainian authorities put it.
The U.S. this week expanded sanctions against Wagner for its role in
Ukraine and mercenary activities in Africa.
Here is a look at the Wagner Group’s history and its current role in the
fighting.
WHO OWNS THE WAGNER GROUP?
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who received a 12-year prison term in 1981 on charges
of robbery and assault, started a restaurant business in St. Petersburg
following his release from prison. It was in this capacity that he got to
know Putin, who served as the city’s deputy mayor in the 1990s.
Prigozhin, 61, used his ties with Putin to develop a catering business and
won lucrative Russian government contracts that earned him the nickname of
“Putin’s chef.” He later expanded to other businesses, including media
outlets and an infamous “troll factory” that led to his indictment in the
U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Prigozhin denied any link to the Wagner Group before he acknowledged
owning the company in September. This month, he declared he also founded,
led and financed it.
WHERE HAS WAGNER WORKED?
The Wagner Group was first spotted in action in eastern Ukraine soon after
a separatist conflict erupted there in April 2014, weeks after Russia’s
annexation of Crimea.
While backing the separatist insurgency in the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern
industrial heartland, Russia denied sending its own weapons and troops
there despite ample evidence to the contrary. Engaging private contractors
in the fighting allowed Moscow to maintain a degree of deniability.
Prigozhin’s company was called Wagner after the nickname of its first
commander, Dmitry Utkin, a retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian
military’s special forces.
It soon established a reputation for its extreme brutality and
ruthlessness.
Along with Ukraine, Wagner personnel deployed to Syria, where Russia
supported President Bashar Assad’s government in the country’s civil war.
In Libya, they fought alongside forces of Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter.
The group also has operated in the Central African Republic and Mali.
Prigozhin has reportedly used Wagner’s deployment to Syria and African
countries to secure lucrative mining contracts.
U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland told members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday that the company was using its
access to gold and other resources in Africa to fund its operations in
Ukraine.
Some Russian media have alleged Wagner’s involvement in the July 2018
killings of three Russian journalists, who were shot dead in the Central
African Republic while investigating the group’s activities there. The
slayings remain unsolved.
WHAT IS THE GROUP’S REPUTATION?
Western countries and United Nations experts have accused Wagner Group
mercenaries of committing numerous human rights abuses throughout Africa,
including in the Central African Republic, Libya and Mali.
In December 2021, the European Union accused the group of “serious human
rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions and killings,” and of carrying out “destabilizing activities”
in the Central African Republic, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.
Some of the reported incidents stood out in their grisly brutality.
A 2017 video posted online showed a group of armed people, reported to be
Wagner contractors, torturing a Syrian man, beating him to death with a
sledgehammer and cutting his head before mutilating and then burning his
body. Russian authorities ignored requests by the media and rights
activists to investigate the killing.
In November 2022, another video surfaced online that showed a former
Wagner contractor getting beaten to death with a sledgehammer after he
allegedly fled to the Ukrainian side and was recaptured. Despite public
outrage and a stream of demands for an investigation, the Kremlin turned a
blind eye to it.
WHAT IS WAGNER’S ROLE IN UKRAINE?
The Wagner Group has taken an increasingly visible role in the war in
Ukraine as regular Russian troops suffered heavy attrition and lost
control over some previously captured territory in a series of humiliating
setbacks.
Prigozhin claimed full credit this month for capturing the Donetsk region
salt-mining town of Soledar and accused the Russian Defense Ministry of
trying to steal Wagner’s glory. He said Wagner was spearheading the attack
on the city of Bakhmut, a nearby Ukrainian stronghold that Russian forces
have tried to win for months.
Prigozhin has toured Russian prisons to recruit fighters, promising
inmates pardons if they survived a half-year tour of front-line duty with
Wagner. He recently posted a video in which he congratulates the first
group of convicts that received official pardons and the right to leave
the company.
The U.S. estimates Wagner has about 50,000 personnel fighting in Ukraine,
including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 of the convicts the company
enlisted.
The U.S. assesses that Wagner is spending about $100 million a month in
the fight and has taken delivery of weapons from North Korea, including
rockets and missiles.
WHAT DO RUSSIA’S MILITARY BRASS THINK?
Wagner’s reach for North Korean weapons may reflect its long-running spat
with the Russian military leadership, which dates back to the company’s
creation.
A group of troops purported to be Wagner contractors on the front line in
Ukraine recently recorded a video in which they showered the chief of the
Russian military’s General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, with curses for
an alleged failure to provide ammunition.
Prigozhin himself castigated the top military brass in recent months,
accusing top-ranking officers of incompetence. His remarks were
unprecedented for Russia’s tightly-controlled political system, in which
only Putin could air such criticism.
Earlier this month, Putin reaffirmed his trust in Gen. Gerasimov by
putting him in direct charge of the Russian forces in Ukraine, a move that
some observers also interpreted as an attempt to cut Prigozhin down to
size.
Prigozhin somewhat toned down his harangues against the military
leadership after that, but remained defiant.
He also has increasingly raised his public profile, issuing daily
messaging app statements to boast about Wagner’s purported victories and
sardonically mock his enemies.
Asked recently about a media comparison of him with Grigory Rasputin, a
mystic who gained fatal influence over Russia’s last czar by claiming to
have the power to cure his son’s hemophilia, Prigozhin snapped: “I don’t
stop blood, but I spill blood of the enemies of our Motherland.”
HAS WAGNER BEEN SUBJECTED TO WESTERN SANCTIONS?
The U.S. slapped several waves of sanctions on Prigozhin and Wagner. The
Treasury Department further ramped up sanctions against Wagner and
affiliated companies and individuals on Thursday.
The European Union also has sanctioned Prigozhin and in December 2021
imposed sanctions on several people associated with Wagner and three
Russia-based energy companies linked to the group in Syria.
Prigozhin mocked the Western sanctions.
“We have conducted an internal check to look into alleged crimes by Wagner
but found no incriminating evidence,” he said, commenting on the latest
U.S. round.
He challenged Wagner’s accusers to send proof of wrondoing to his press
service.
<https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-wagner-group-yevgeny-prigozhin-
803da2e3ceda5dace7622cac611087fc?utm_source=apnews&utm_medium=relatedconte
ntmodule>
? Mighty Wannabe?
May 6, 2023, 3:51:24 PM5/6/23
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On Sat, 6 May 2023 21:37:12 +0200 (CEST), Levi <le...@jews.ork> wrote:
>On 25 Aug 2021, "Text-Drivers R Killers" <xeto...@yahoo.com> posted some
>news:sg62ng$siv$2...@news.dns-netz.com:
>
>> Wagner said to send Kamala to fuck all the troops.
>
>Fierce battles in eastern Ukraine have thrown a new spotlight on Russia’s
>Wagner Group, a private military company led by a rogue millionaire with
>longtime links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
>Re: Brutality of Russia's Wagner gives it lead in Ukraine war
>On 25 Aug 2021, "Text-Drivers R Killers" <xeto...@yahoo.com> posted some
>news:sg62ng$siv$2...@news.dns-netz.com:
>
>> Wagner said to send Kamala to fuck all the troops.
>
>Fierce battles in eastern Ukraine have thrown a new spotlight on Russia’s
>Wagner Group, a private military company led by a rogue millionaire with
>longtime links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It sure does!
LOTS and LOTS of Ukrainian 7.62×39mm lead!
ROFLMAO!!!!!
? Mighty Wannabe?
May 6, 2023, 4:03:57 PM5/6/23
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-claims-shot-down-russian-hypersonic-missile-us-patriot-system
Ukraine shot down Russian hypersonic missile with US Patriot system
Ukrainian officials announced Saturday that the nation's military took
down a Russian hypersonic missile using American Patriot defense
technology.
The Kinzhal-type missile, reportedly fired over Kyiv, is the first one
of its kind to be intercepted by Ukrainian defenses.
"Yes, we shot down the ‘unique’ Kinzhal," wrote Ukrainian Air Force
commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
"I am angry, but we are working on the new super-hyper-ultra megasonic
missile which will be REALLY impossible to shoot down," said Putin.
Ukraine shot down Russian hypersonic missile with US Patriot system
Ukrainian officials announced Saturday that the nation's military took
down a Russian hypersonic missile using American Patriot defense
technology.
The Kinzhal-type missile, reportedly fired over Kyiv, is the first one
of its kind to be intercepted by Ukrainian defenses.
"Yes, we shot down the ‘unique’ Kinzhal," wrote Ukrainian Air Force
commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
"I am angry, but we are working on the new super-hyper-ultra megasonic
missile which will be REALLY impossible to shoot down," said Putin.
linyur
May 6, 2023, 4:32:09 PM5/6/23
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On 5/6/23 2:03 PM, ? Mighty Wannabe? wrote:
> "Yes, we shot down the ‘unique’ Kinzhal," wrote Ukrainian Air Force
> commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
"We push button, moose and squirrel go poof, send bill to Biden."
> "Yes, we shot down the ‘unique’ Kinzhal," wrote Ukrainian Air Force
> commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
Hail Putin!
May 6, 2023, 7:13:39 PM5/6/23
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>https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-claims-shot-down-russian-hypersonic-
carefully manufactured from moulds of Putin's head.
missile-us-patriot-system
>
>Ukraine shot down Russian hypersonic missile with US Patriot system
>
>Ukrainian officials announced Saturday that the nation's military took
>down a Russian hypersonic missile using American Patriot defense
>technology.
>
>The Kinzhal-type missile, reportedly fired over Kyiv, is the first one
>of its kind to be intercepted by Ukrainian defenses.
>
>"Yes, we shot down the 'unique' Kinzhal," wrote Ukrainian Air Force
>commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
>
>"I am angry, but we are working on the new super-hyper-ultra megasonic
>missile which will be REALLY impossible to shoot down," said Putin.
>
More lies! Russia's hypersonic missiles are invincible because they're each
>
>Ukraine shot down Russian hypersonic missile with US Patriot system
>
>Ukrainian officials announced Saturday that the nation's military took
>down a Russian hypersonic missile using American Patriot defense
>technology.
>
>The Kinzhal-type missile, reportedly fired over Kyiv, is the first one
>of its kind to be intercepted by Ukrainian defenses.
>
>"Yes, we shot down the 'unique' Kinzhal," wrote Ukrainian Air Force
>commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
>
>"I am angry, but we are working on the new super-hyper-ultra megasonic
>missile which will be REALLY impossible to shoot down," said Putin.
>
carefully manufactured from moulds of Putin's head.
Siri Cruise
May 7, 2023, 12:00:17 PM5/7/23
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_crisis
A contributing factor to the Sputnik crisis was that the Soviets
had not released a photograph of the satellite for five days after
the launch. Until then, its appearance remained a mystery to
Americans. Another factor was its weight of 184 pounds, compared
to US plans to launch a satellite of 21.5 pounds. The Soviet claim
seemed outrageous to many American officials, who doubted its
accuracy. US rockets then produced 150,000 pounds-force of
thrust, and US officials presumed that the Soviet rocket that
launched Sputnik into space must have produced 200,000
pounds-force of thrust. In fact, the R-7 rocket that launched
Sputnik 1 into space produced almost 1,000,000 pounds-force of
thrust. All of those factors contributed to the Americans'
perception that they were greatly behind the Soviets in the
development of space technologies.
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