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More Russian stuff blowing up, plus Wagner's No. 2 IDed by his Nazi tattoos [1]

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Date: 2023-08-24

Ukraine launched a special ops mission in the same area of Crimea where the night before they blew the crap out of an S-400 missile complex.

x BREAKING:



Last night, Ukraine launched a amphibious raid against Crimea for the 1st time!



Helped by the Ukrainian Navy, special forces landed near Olenivka



They attacked Russian units there, killing occupiers & destroying equipment before withdrawing without any own casualties pic.twitter.com/nM4903bgdA — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 24, 2023

x Military intel confirms successful mission in Crimea: special units landed near Olenivka and Mayak without casualties. Enemy suffered losses in manpower and military vehicles. pic.twitter.com/AmZS3dXv9M — Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) August 24, 2023

x #Russia / #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: #Ukrainian Navy and #GUR carried out an operation enar the #Olenivka in #Crimea around 3:50 am.



Combatants seem to be armed with Mk 19 Mod 3 automatic grenade launcher, RPG-26 'Aglen' anti-tank weapon (fired/abondoned), RPG-7 Launcher and AK-74 rifles.… pic.twitter.com/00HkWv9Esq — War Noir (@war_noir) August 24, 2023

Tokmak is going to experience some things.

x 💥The shelling of the command post in Tokmok.



The video shows the shelling of the command post and the location of the equipment of one of the units of the 58th combined arms army.



According to the source, these events took place in Tokmak, Pohovsky district, Zaporozhye region. pic.twitter.com/RPs6SToXNx — Getty (@region776) August 24, 2023

This is trench warfare up close. WARNING: This video shows Russian soldiers being shot.

x 30 OMBr mercilessly destroys the occupiers 🔥full video on https://t.co/3lc2JgYq7U pic.twitter.com/DMLST37sNn — Getty (@region776) August 24, 2023

Folks with the U.S. government think Prigozhin’s plane went kaboom thanks to a bomb planted on board as opposed to a surface-to-air missile.

You’d think Prigozhin would have security folks who would look for such things. Don’t they make people take off their shoes before boarding?

The plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, crashed as the result of an assassination plot but doesn’t appear to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile, U.S. officials said. The preliminary U.S. government assessments, which officials stressed are incomplete, suggest that a bomb exploded on the aircraft or that some other form of sabotage caused the crash northwest of Moscow. The Russian government has said it is investigating the cause of the crash, but hasn’t offered an explanation. Social-media channels close to Prigozhin’s Wagner have claimed that the aircraft was downed by a Russian military antiaircraft missile.

Some interesting thoughts on the future of Wagner:

x What does the news about the execution of Prigozhin and Utkin mean for Ukraine?



🔹 First of all, it means Russia will become weaker. A dangerous, cunning, determined, and clever enemy of Ukraine in the person of Prigozhin has been eliminated. He was capable of unconventional… pic.twitter.com/WENdUTmqNc — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) August 24, 2023

First of all, it means Russia will become weaker. A dangerous, cunning, determined, and clever enemy of Ukraine in the person of Prigozhin has been eliminated. He was capable of unconventional approaches and solutions in complex situations - something that neither Putin, Shoigu, Gerasimov, nor their subordinates are capable of. hose war criminals - soldiers and officers of the Russian army, as well as mercenaries from other PMCs who fought against Ukraine and were inspired by Prigozhin and Utkin are now demotivated. As one such stoned bastard wrote yesterday in his Telegram channel: "It's not clear whether the Hero of Russia Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was on board, but if he was, then pack your belongings, and we don't f*cking need this war". Wagner PMC as a fighting unit no longer exists, as it was held on the iron will and bloody traditions of Prigozhin and Utkin. The remnants of Wagnerites will be persecuted and will seek salvation by being recruited into the service of dictatorial regimes in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, guarding bloody diamond mining and drug production in the jungle. Of course, they will be offered to sign a contract with Shoigu and go to war against Ukraine, but I think not many will agree to this, as few will want to give their lives again for Putin, whom they hate and who killed their leaders. Tens of thousands of families of the destroyed and wounded Wagnerites, who previously received payments through Prigozhin's structures, will now receive nothing. This will further increase social tensions and the level of internal destabilization in Russia, which, of course, is to our advantage. Also, this public execution will increase tension and uncertainty among the Kremlin elites. I also do not rule out and would like very much if a small secret group were to be created among the most loyal to Prigozhin and Utkin Wagnerites, which would set upon itself the task to take revenge on Putin, Shoigu, and Gerasimov at any cost and liquidate them according to the laws of bandit bloody vengeance.

A “difficult fate” indeed.

x Putin commented on the death of Prigozhin.



“Early data indicates Wagner employees were in the plane. I think Wagner made a significant contribution in fighting nazism in Ukraine. Prigozhin was talented man, but had a difficult fate.



Putin said furthermore that an… pic.twitter.com/ATHkXAFx2d — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 24, 2023

Good tip to remember in case you are ever shot down over Russia — they can still identify your body if you have Nazi tattoos.

x BREAKING:



The bodies of Prigozhin and Utkin (the original “Wagner”) have both been officially identified at the morgue.



Prigozhin was recognized by a particular wound on his hand, while Utkin was identified by his specific Nazi tattoos. pic.twitter.com/Zw9JNw2svD — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 24, 2023

x Prigozhin’s memorial. Yeah I expected nothing less but I’m still shocked every time pic.twitter.com/ua55iGSRcS — Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz) August 24, 2023

Boo fucking hoo.

x A fighter of PMC Wagner could not hold back his tears near a spontaneous memorial in Novosibirsk.

ㅤ

So sad 🫠



Not. pic.twitter.com/MB1fkqWCZR — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 24, 2023

More heartfelt grief over the death of Yevgeny Viktorovich.

LEAVE YEVGENY ALONE!!!!!!!

x Same vibes pic.twitter.com/tv4XSbFWDo — Túlio Leal (@tulioleal) August 24, 2023

Maybe Putin should put in a claim.

x Can Putin claim these $250,000?

Does he have to prove that he killed Prigozhin? https://t.co/G0jxgOWT72 — Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) August 24, 2023

Russia is going to run out of migrants to feed into the meat grinder at the rate this war is going.

x Russian military commissariats conducted a large-scale handover of enlistment notices to migrants in the South Urals, Russian media report. The event was organized together with the support of OMON special forces and took place at the Chinese market located in the Metallurgical… pic.twitter.com/3YFuswuUQU — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) August 24, 2023

Russian bloggers seem gleeful at seeing migrants being swept up.

x There are raids across the country against creatures .. migrants.

By the way, the mońkey that hit the girl is being screwed with the article extremism.

Because it said that it came here to teach us Sharia.



Russia blogger Comments on the raid of immigrants 👆 pic.twitter.com/b54pY3asJb — Getty (@region776) August 24, 2023

Norway joins Denmark and the Netherlands in supplying F-16s to Ukraine. Norway is supplying 12, which brings the total to 73. The U.S., Greece and Portugal will also be training pilots.

x The Norwegian publication TV2, citing its own sources, reports that the government is preparing to hand over 12 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. https://t.co/U0cCBG4O2V pic.twitter.com/RgNkdpNpOI — Getty (@region776) August 24, 2023

And add 1 Bayraktar TB2 as a birthday present.

x The Turkish company Baykar has sent Ukraine a present on their Independence Day.



Another Bayraktar TB2 free of charge.



This is just the type of presents needed.



Thank you!



🇺🇦🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/dbuSzbcBmb — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 24, 2023

They’re going to learn English in Texas!?!? OMG. I suppose they’ll become Cowboys fans too.

x The Pentagon intends to start training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s on U.S. territory in September, the NYT quoted a U.S. official as saying.



According to the newspaper's interlocutor, the pilots will first undergo English language training in the state of Texas and then start… pic.twitter.com/O3x5ON6i8D — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) August 24, 2023

This guy would fit right in in many parts of America.

x Lesson learned: the best shooting results are achieved when you are drunk with a bottle of beer and a cigarette in your hand.

Video from the phone of a captured mobik found by Ukrainian soldiers. pic.twitter.com/dMdq0pCt00 — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) August 24, 2023

I posted a video of this yesterday that didn’t have subtitles. After seeing this one and reading it I have some new thoughts about it, so I’m posting it again.

This soldier is really just a kid — 19 years old. In the first part of the video where he is bragging about capturing a Ukrainian vehicle he is trying to fit in with his comrades, which is pretty normal behavior for a young soldier, seems to me. In the second part of the video after he is captured, he’s scared, telling his captors that he’s just 19. They tell him he’ll be OK.

It’s a good thing that he was captured. That means he’ll live. He won’t be threatened with death if he tries to retreat. He won’t be killed by shrapnel and left to rot on the battlefield or have his body fed into a mobile crematorium while his family is told he is “missing.”

He can eventually go back home and have a family and maybe live in a peaceful Russia one day. Hopefully that’s what happens.

Rest in peace.

Normally I would say that sending balloons into the air is a bad idea because animals tend to find them when they come down and try to eat them.

But there probably isn’t a better way to send a message to the occupied east bank in Kherson Oblast.

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