Russia & Ukraine

Discussion in 'Politics' started by UsualName, Jan 18, 2022.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Wagner also has a money stream by grifting mining operations deep in Africa to provide their funding. A lucrative operation which may effectively drive Yevgeny Prigozhin into further internal conflict with Putin's regime and Russian military leaders.

    Wagner Group capable of gaining $1 billion from mining projects in Africa to finance war in Ukraine
    https://kyivindependent.com/news-fe...-projects-in-africa-to-finance-war-in-ukraine
     
    #9231     Jan 20, 2023
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  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

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    #9233     Jan 20, 2023
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  4. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    kadirov and prigozin - hard to believe that these two clowns are still alive

    mad vlad is disappointing me again and again

    high time to open some windows
     
    #9234     Jan 20, 2023
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  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Wagner is now officially a bunch of criminals. The intent will be to cut off Wagner's funding activities by deploying additional treasury sanctions and pressure.

    US to designate Russia’s Wagner mercenary group as a ‘transnational criminal organization’

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/us-russia-wagner-group/index.html

    The US Treasury Department will designate the Russian mercenary organization Wagner Group as a “transnational criminal organization” and will impose additional sanctions next week against the group and its support network across the world, the White House said on Friday.

    “These actions recognize the transcontinental threat that Wagner poses, including through its ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity,” National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told reporters on Friday, ahead of the Treasury Department announcement.

    Along with the new sanctions, the US has released newly declassified photos of Russian railcars traveling from Russia to North Korea and back in November, in what the US believes was the initial delivery of infantry rockets and missiles for use by the mercenary organization Wagner Group in Ukraine.

    Kirby said that while the US does not believe the equipment has changed the battlefield dynamics in Ukraine, the US expects those kinds of weapons systems deliveries from North Korea to Russia to continue. Russia has also been receiving equipment, including drones, from Iran, as its military supplies have dwindled over the course of the war.

    “The arms transfers from [North Korea] are in direct violation of United Nations Security Council resolution,” Kirby said, adding that the US has shared its intelligence with the Security Council’s DPRK sanctions committee panel of experts.

    A senior western intelligence official echoed that assessment on Friday, telling reporters that the West is “certainly concerned that North Korea might plan to expand and deliver more military equipment or to sustain those deliveries.”

    Tensions between Russian military and mercenary group
    More broadly, the US assesses that tensions between the Russian Defense Ministry and Wagner are increasing as Russian President Vladimir Putin increasingly relies on Wagner to carry out operations in Ukraine. There are around 50,000 Wagner Group fighters currently deployed to Ukraine, according to Kirby, including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts.

    “Wagner is becoming a rival power center to the Russian military and other Russian ministries,” Kirby said, and the US has intelligence suggesting that the Russian Defense Ministry “has reservations” about Wagner’s heavy recruitment from Russian prisons.

    Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner Group, has complained that the Russian Ministry of Defense has botched the war effort, and that Wagner fighters should be given more equipment, authority and autonomy to carry out operations in Ukraine.

    A senior US official told CNN last month that the Wagner Group has lost thousands of fighters in Ukraine in the last two months alone, most heavily in its operations around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. But they have also proven more effective than the Russian military in some areas, Pentagon officials have said.

    Tensions between Kremlin defense officials and Wagner Group leaders have also been rising amid public complaints by the mercenaries that they are running low on equipment and reports that their leader, Prigozhin, wants to take control of the lucrative salt mines near Bakhmut.

    In a video that ran on Russian state media, Wagner Group fighters complain that they are running low on combat vehicles, artillery shells and ammunition, which is limiting their ability to conquer Bakhmut – shortages Prigozhin then blames on “internal bureaucracy and corruption.”

    The US believes that Prigozhin’s open defiance of the Russian Defense Ministry is an attempt to generate positive publicity for himself.

    “Prigozhin is trying to advance his own interests in Ukraine,” Kirby said on Friday. “And Wagner is making military decisions based largely on what will generate positive publicity for Prigozhin.”
     
    #9235     Jan 20, 2023
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    #9236     Jan 21, 2023
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  8. Nobert

    Nobert

    @TimtheEnchanter the mud wizzard



    The real idea is tho, when that russian convoy of 60 km got stuck in mud (above Kiev), this is how the fields of mud, can stop any advance.

    And it's not even that bad as of yet.
     
    #9238     Jan 21, 2023
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    #9239     Jan 22, 2023
  10. themickey

    themickey

    Source: Medvedev on Telegram

    Quote: "The Ramstein meeting and allocation of heavy armament to Kyiv leave no doubt that our enemies will be trying to exhaust us for an indefinite amount of time, or better yet, to destroy us.
    They do have enough armament. If needed, they will start producing new weapons. So there should be no illusions.

    What conclusions can we make? Firstly, it will not be easy. Secondly, in case of a prolonged conflict, a new military alliance will be formed sooner or later by the countries forced by the USA and their pack of castrated dogs…

    It will be at that moment that the USA will abandon this old hag Europe and the remains of miserable Ukrainians, and the world will come back to the state of balance.".....

    LOL :)
     
    #9240     Jan 22, 2023
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