We covered this already. Russia has accumulated about $50B worth (and that's just last year, over last several years it is a lot more) worthless rupees that it cannot really do anything with. MW of course claims that Russians can at any time change them into dollars, but that's just his wet fantasies.
Prigozhin says that his Wagnerites just in the Bakhmut battles lost 20K killed and 30K+ wounded. Just Wagner. Just Bakhmut. Wagner by numbers is (well, was, they have all left now) about 1/10th of Russian army in Ukraine. That's reality.
Mounting Death Toll: Putin Ally and Belarusian Minister Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances at 47-years-old Story by Connor Surmonte • 7h ago Mega; Twitter© Radar Online A Belarusian minister close to Vladimir Putin suddenly passed away this week under mysterious circumstances, RadarOnline.com has learned. Aleksey Avramenko, 47, served as Minister of Transport and Communications for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Avramenko was found dead on Tuesday of unknown causes and his mysterious death marked just the latest Putin crony to die under suspicious circumstances in recent months. Belta, a Belarusian state news agency, confirmed Avramenko’s passing this week but could not report on the minister’s cause of death. Avramenko’s sudden death also came shortly after he was hit with a series of sanctions connected to the controversial and illegal diversion of a plane carrying the opposition journalist Roman Pratasevich back in 2021. As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Avramenko’s suspicious death on Tuesday followed the similarly mysterious death of Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei in November. Makei’s death roughly eight months ago came after Lukashenko’s foreign minister condemned Putin’s plans to use Belarus as a “staging area” for the Russian leader’s ongoing war against Ukraine. Meanwhile, over 40 major Russian figures – including oligarchs, politicians, and generals – have died under similarly bizarre and mysterious circumstances since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. "Anyone seen as a potential threat seems to have an attraction to an open window," Jon Sweet, a retired United States Army Military Intelligence Officer, told the Sun. There are also concerns that Putin’s exiled mercenary chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, will meet a similar fate after fleeing to Belarus after his botched coup against Moscow last month. Although Prigozhin insisted that last month’s rebellion was not “to overthrow Russia’s leadership” but rather to “avoid [the] destruction of Wagner,” sources have warned the 62-year-old Wagner leader to be wary of possible assassination attempts. “If I was him, I would be very careful what I ate and where I went,” British MP Tobias Ellwood said after Prigozhin was exiled to Belarus. “Putin mops up any dissenting voices himself – he will be plotting.” “What he did in the last few days didn't happen instantaneously,” Ellwood continued. “It has been building for months and months and months.” Mounting Death Toll: Putin Ally and Belarusian Minister Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances at 47-years-old (msn.com)
The ruble is continuing its steady decline since Prigozhin's Putsch. If the Russian central bank has lost the ability to artificially inflate the ruble, runaway inflation might be around the corner...
Video about Putin and his mother. When Putin became president, FSB went to the village where she lives and destroyed all possible proof (foto,s and documents) that he was here son. Putin never meet his mother for decades and refuses to see her. The confirmation that Putin is not interested in any human, dead or alive.
Book that explaines how the KGB and Putin stole billions and tried to destroy the West. Written by Catherine Belton. Read this article. Trump is mentioned there toa as one of the Western people who got support from Putin and who basically were controlled by Putin. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/catherine-belton-putins-people/614212/
Look who is back in Russia -- he would be well advised to stay away from 5th story windows. Exiled Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in Russia, president of Belarus says Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Prigozhin is in St. Petersburg, Russia https://www.foxnews.com/world/exile...ef-yevgeny-prigozhin-russia-president-belarus Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia while his troops remain at the camps where they stayed before the short-lived rebellion, the president of Belarus said Thursday. After stating last week that Prigozhin was in Belarus, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told international reporters Thursday that the warlord was in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Wagner's troops still were at their camps. "As for Prigozhin, he’s in St. Petersburg," Lukashenko told reporters. "He is not on the territory of Belarus." Lukashenko said he helped broker a deal for Prigozhin to end his mutiny on June 24 in exchange for amnesty and security guarantees for himself and his soldiers, and permission to move to Belarus. Russian outlet Fontanka reported that Prigozhin had returned to Russia to reclaim weapons confiscated by authorities during searches at residences following the end of the rebellion. Prigozhin was also reportedly presented 10 billion rubles (more than $100 million USD) by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the very man he sought to oust with his mutiny, that law enforcement had found during a raid on one of his vehicles. Prigozhin also shuttered his media holdings, closing down media group The Patriot and its outlets People's News and Economics Today, according to The Moscow Times. The news comes after Prigozhin released an audio message earlier this week promising new "victories on the frontline" despite the Kremlin insisting that the rebels were banished to Belarus. "We need your support today more than ever. Thank you for that. I want you to understand that our ‘justice march’ was aimed at fighting traitors and mobilizing our society. I think we achieved a lot of that," Prigozhin said in the message shared by the Wagner-affiliated GreyZone Telegram channel via The Associated Press. Fox News Digital was not able to authenticate the audio. The abortive rebellion was what many observers are calling the biggest threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power – an attempt on Moscow that exposed the Kremlin's weakness. After marching his 25,000-strong mercenary forces to within 125 miles of Moscow, Prigozhin abruptly ended the operation and ordered his troops to return home before heading into exile in Belarus. In the aftermath, reports claimed that Prigozhin had anticipated support from several military officers and regiments, but that no support materialized. A military purge reportedly followed, but Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the Department of Defense did not see anything that should raise an alarm. "Right now, we continue to see some elements of the Wagner group in Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine. As it relates to Belarus, I don’t have any updates to provide on that front," he said.