Indeed, when Komrad’s ‘sources’ lead him to post utter nonsense like this:
It’s not safe to trust him about what color the sky is. Wagner’s disputes with the regular Russian military are long and well documented; they were openly feuding with each other four months ago when Komrad made his aged like milk predictions about Bakhmut. Stating that Prigozhin isn’t ultimately in command of Wagner is like saying the sky is pink and purple. Claiming they are always supported - heavily, even! - by regular Russian forces is truly idiotic and very clearly demonstrates that Komrad lives in an alternate reality. Ignoring for the moment the months long feud between the two, it’s impossible to imagine how one could account for Prigozhin’s latest video apart from simply ignoring its existence.
For anyone who hasn’t watched the video, this is the closest I could quickly find to a transcript of what he said, it politely edits out all the times he screams fuck or fucking: Wagner Boss Screams and Swears at Putin’s War Chiefs in New Video (businessinsider.com)
The Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin released a video on Thursday of him shouting and cursing at the Kremlin’s two top officials.
His latest video, published on his press service’s Telegram channel, contains the military contractor’s harshest public comments about Russia’s leaders since the war began.
“Here are the guys from PMC Wagner who died today. The blood is still fresh,” Prigozhin said in the video seen by Insider.
“Film them all,” he told a cameraman, who pans across a grassy clearing filled with rows of corpses dressed in combat fatigues.
Prigozhin then launches into an expletive-filled tirade against Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, who Putin tasked with running the war in Ukraine.
He swore at least nine times in the video, though his press service censored the expletives.
“We have a 70% ammo shortage! Shoigu! Gerasimov!” Prigozhin said before demanding to know where the ammo for his troops was.
He said military leaders who wouldn’t give his troops ammunition would “have their insides eaten in hell.”
“You animals are hanging out in expensive clubs,” Prigozhin continued. “Your children are enjoying their lives, making videos for YouTube. Do you think that you are the masters of this life and that you have the right to control their lives?”
Prigozhin said that the death toll among his troops would have been five times lower if they had been supplied with enough ammunition.
“They came here as volunteers,” he said, referring to the dead men in the video. “And are dying for you to be rolling in clover in your mahogany offices. Keep that in mind!”
Prigozhin — generally seen as a close ally of Putin — repeatedly complained that his troops were running out of supplies, and has accused Russia’s top brass of cutting him off and dooming his men in Ukraine.
He said his forces were only receiving a fifth of the shells they needed every day, and that the shortage was costing his men their lives.
On Saturday, Prigozhin said his troops in Bakhmut would either have to “withdraw or die” given the massive ammunition deficit. He later added that Wagner Group had lost more than 100 people in a single day during an assault there.
Truly, the amount of mutual respect and support that Wagner and the regular Russian armed forces have for each other is a shining example of the power of cooperation.
Not to worry though; did you know Gazprom has been forming their own PMC? It’ called Potok (поток), or ‘flow’, insert your own dying for oil joke here.
Oh, and finally about Komrad’s earlier claims of wavering support for Ukraine in the international community, that one hasn’t aged very well either.
In addition to China, Kazakhstan and all other post-Soviet republics except Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (which abstained), as well as countries that the Russian authorities call “friendly,” voted in favor of the document. These include India, Brazil, and Turkey.
Votes against came from only five countries. In addition to Russia, these are Belarus, DR Congo, Nicaragua, and Syria. A total of 122 countries were in favor.
When even Kazakhstan is abandoning what little support voting to abstain gives to voting in favor of a declaration calling Russia the aggressor, you know you’ve got diplomatic problems.
Putin cheerleader? Has he posted since the end of January?