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More on Wagner
The drama between the Ministry of Defense and Evgeny Prighozin continues to grow. Mind you, at the cost of tens of thousands of lives, Wagner has made small advances on Bakhmut. Over the last two weeks, he has been complaining of shell hunger.
This little crisis just grew:
The head of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin has had communication channels blocked with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and other departments, — Prigozhin’s press service. “In order for me to stop asking for ammunition, all the special communication phones in all offices and divisions were turned off, and all access to the departments responsible for decision-making was blocked,” said the head of the PMC in response to a question…
You know it’s significant when even MSNBC had his video on my TV. It’s not like our media is good at covering foreign affairs. There are systemic reasons for that.
So let’s look at what is going on. Is Vladimir Putin trying to blame the defeat on his secretary of Defense? It’s a valid take. Sergei Shoigu is the man in charge, and his own PMC has hardly done as well.
I suggest there is something else at play here. It comes via Moscow Calling, who is noticing the same patterns I am. Mind you, he is in Moscow, so there must be a level of distress to this:
There are reports that the…