Sources of British special services have reported that the Russian secret services threatened to hurt the families of chiefs of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) before Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner and leader of the Wagner PMC, stopped his offensive on Moscow.
That makes more sense, if this is true. I would think Wagner would take steps to prevent that ahead of an Invasion of the homeland, thigh.
I’d be shocked if this was true. I would think that would be the first FSB tactic that they would’ve performed. It’s a classic one in movies as well. It’ll be absolutely insane if this is what stopped the coup.
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The whole lot doesn’t seem bright at all. Then they basically drove through to Moscow like they were having a leisurely stroll and lost one truck. Russia looks so pathetic right now.
he just wanted to retire apparently as his war machine was not making him money in Ukraine and I guess that’s one way to do it.
that sounds rather counterproductive. can’t retire if you are dead
It seemed like a sudden change in marching orders, so the chiefs probably didn’t have enough notice to have families moved to someplace safer. Now that Prigozhin has backed off, for whatever deal was made, he probably doesn’t have long before he dies of poison or falling out a window (if it hasn’t happened already).
There was a report floating around that this was in the wheels for longer, so the attack on Wagner was possibly a preemptive strike. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/russia-coup-wagner-putin-intelligence-b2363901.html#