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

  • Yozul@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    60
    ·
    1 year ago

    Putin declared Prigozhin a traitor on national TV, then fled Moscow, then gave Prigozhin everything he asked for and let him walk away. All within a day. This wasn’t some 5D chess nonsense. Putin just surrendered.

    • BuxtonWater@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Putin hasn’t done anything yet except flee to safety yet, he doesn’t personally hold a gun in moscow to hold it as his own. A surrender would mean a civil war in wagner’s favor. Currently not at that point of desperation but we are getting there. An interesting situatiuon nevertheless.

      • Yozul@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        17
        ·
        1 year ago

        Putin’s absolutely still in charge of Russia until someone else tries something. He still lost to Wagner though. Prigozhin got everything he wanted out of his little stunt. Putin caved because he was afraid.

        Despite what a lot of people have said, this wasn’t about Prigozhin trying to pull off a coup. Wagner was supposed to be absorbed into the Russian army, and rumor had it that Prigozhin was going to be in serious trouble when that happened. Now he gets to take his still independent army to Belarus and got his enemies in the MoD fired. Prigozhin got what he wanted, and Putin couldn’t stop him.

        • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          16
          ·
          1 year ago

          Where does this information come from. All I’ve heard is the Wagner guys aren’t heading towards Moscow and some deal was made involving the president of Belarus. Are there specifics that have been made public?

          • floofloof@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            9
            ·
            1 year ago

            Several news sites are reporting that part of the deal was for Prigozhin to go and live in Belarus. It’s not clear whether he’s supposed to take the Wagner troops with him, but there are questions about their loyalty to him now, since he may have set them up to be absorbed into the Russian army.

    • grumbul@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      I haven’t been able to figure out from any of the arti Lea I’ve seen… What is it that Putin ended up giving to Prigozhin? What was Prigozhin asking for?