It's really weird how little resistance it appears Wagner have faced. Must be major mutiny / reluctance to follow orders in the Russian army and airforce etc if they're resorting to blocking roads with trucks, and apparently unable to actually stop the convoy on its way to Moscow....
Then the main resistance at Moscow looks like some machine guns and lightly armoured vehicles, with a pile of sand if they're lucky...
Then again maybe the trucks blocking the road will actually be effective at disrupting their advance!
Plus all the private jets reported to have been flying out of Moscow make it seem like the leadership know they have a major loyalty / lack of forces crisis (maybe almost everything useful really is tied up in Ukraine, or maybe officers are just being very slow to respond to orders today...) on their hands. Maybe that makes sense of reports of Wagner popularity with the general public are accurate...
So no idea where this is going but what an awesome drama too play out, and really does seem like the Russian state is in panic.
It's really weird how little resistance it appears Wagner have faced.
I wonder how much of this is filtering down to the front lines?I’m pleased that this could actually all be coming to an end now. I imagine many of the Russian forces would be very attracted to the idea of ending the war and a change of regime.
Probably because they're not really there to fight in the first place. This whole thing seems largely performative.
It's really weird how little resistance it appears Wagner have faced. Must be major mutiny / reluctance to follow orders in the Russian army and airforce etc if they're resorting to blocking roads with trucks, and apparently unable to actually stop the convoy on its way to Moscow....
Then the main resistance at Moscow looks like some machine guns and lightly armoured vehicles, with a pile of sand if they're lucky...
Then again maybe the trucks blocking the road will actually be effective at disrupting their advance!
Plus all the private jets reported to have been flying out of Moscow make it seem like the leadership know they have a major loyalty / lack of forces crisis (maybe almost everything useful really is tied up in Ukraine, or maybe officers are just being very slow to respond to orders today...) on their hands. Maybe that makes sense of reports of Wagner popularity with the general public are accurate...
So no idea where this is going but what an awesome drama too play out, and really does seem like the Russian state is in panic.
I'm guessing no one is really prepared for this and any planning is probably highly theoretical and unrehearsed. And the military probably lazy and discovering all the holes in capibilities, due to corruption and incompetence, when called on.
thats the video i saw couldnt find it on twitter