If he was in a James Bond movie he’d be considered too cliched to be real. He was a parody of himself.
Welp… If this is true (big “if”) it looks like we might be having “March on Moscow 2: Electric boogaloo” in our hands.
This article suggests Wagner’s surviving membership is breaking itself up and relocating largely due to dissatisfaction with Belarusian facilities and their paychecks, possibly in an every-man-for-himself kind of effort to pursue new mercenary options:
There’s no obvious successor to Prigozhin who might be leading a “LEEEEROY JENKINSSS” suicide charge back into Russia, so I’m skeptical, but if it turns out that’s what this is, it would certainly be … an interesting development.
And Priggy had the contacts with other military leaders who might be sympathetic. I guess his Rolodex went down with him.
Ukrainian special forces carried out an amphibious raid on Crimea, reportedly inflicting losses in personnel and equipment on the enemy, without incurring any themselves:
I haven’t seen anyone else saying there was a Crimean attack. Not disbelieving you. Perhaps they just haven’t written it up yet. This is an analysis from November 2022 of the difficulties in attacking Crimea (though they’re talking about a full attack, not a raid), so kudos to them for pulling it off!
relevant news:
I never noticed he was a finger short, though…
Huh. I googled “Crimea amphibious attack” and didn’t see that. 
Oh well.
It was one way of distinguishing him from his double:
Putin’s Chef was nothing if not cliched…unless they accidentally shot down Putin’s Woodshop Teacher.
More confirmation of the attack on Crimea. Happy independence day Ukraine!
There are also rumors that Norway is going to send F-16’s to Ukraine. They could end up with a very significant boost to their air force.
Prigozhin’s death wasn’t much reported in Russia. And even if it were some kind of mistake, you’ll never hear about it. Putin has too much to gain from his death being attributed to “revenge.” This article talks about the reaction of various commentators in Russia to his death.
I suspect the reaction of the public is irrelevant. This was intended as a message to the elites.
I wonder how much more the Ministry of Defense needs purging? Any senior officer or civilian who had any friendship or sympathy for Wagner would have to be considered unreliable.
Russian serial killer talks about his latest victims:
I suspect Putin misses Prigozhin’s outstanding Borscht and pirozhki. Otherwise its business as usual.
I am surprised Putin even made an effort to comment on his old partner’s death and send condolences to family.
The US has trained foreign military pilots for decades. This is good news for Ukraine.
Eagle should be on his left arm, though, to match the SS tattoos.
Bad enough to be a Nazi, he’s not even a historically accurate Nazi? For Shame!
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He’s got a Nazi breast eagle:
And SS collar patches:
Maybe it’s not entirely historically accurate as the Wehrmacht army appear to have Nazi breast eagle, while SS do not. So your comment is correct, as SS have eagle on arm.