The aroma of the coup dish that Yevgeni Prigozhin, Putin’s cook, is preparing, has already reached the Ukrainian lines. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Kiev army has intensified all its operations in the city of Bakhmut last morning, taking advantage of the military chaos caused by the owner of the Wagner group in Russia.
The Ukrainians, who had already liberated a good part of the flanks of the Donbas city, have also launched into the western neighborhoods. For the moment, and according to some sources, the Ukrainians have penetrated “in some streets” and have managed to take Russian prisoners.
It is the first tangible consequence on the front of the coup attempt being carried out by the ‘warlord’ Yevgeni Prigozhin. In the Ukrainian military channels they are pulling humor to thank him “for his help to the anti-aircraft defense of Ukraine by shooting down three Russian helicopters”, in reference to the incident in which the Wagners have shot down three Russian aircraft in Rostov, recognized by the air force itself Russian.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to the events by noting on Twitter: “Everyone who chooses the path of evil destroys himself. Russia’s weakness on a large scale is obvious.”
The meme industry in Ukraine exploded last night. Many turned to the old images of the Swan Lake ballet that Soviet television broadcast as the USSR collapsed. The truth is that Ukraine had been amassing war material in the area for days to push the Russian lines and cut the main roads that led to Bakhmut, to make it impossible for the Russians to supply their units, and ultimately surround them. But these night events seem to have precipitated the attack actions.
Since last night, many Ukrainians have been following this military movement by Prigozhin with hope, confident that it represents an opportunity for Ukraine, as Moscow changes the focus of operations, and even an abrupt end to the war if the current Putin regime ends up falling.
While Russian television, controlled entirely by the Kremlin, limited itself to showing the charges against Wagner’s boss, the Ukrainian media offered all kinds of details of that “march for justice” that Prigozhin launched in his way to Moscow.
Volodimir Zelensky’s presidential adviser, Mikhailo Podyolak, assured this morning on his Twitter account: “The division between the elites is too obvious. Accepting and pretending that everything is fixed will not work. Someone must definitely lose: either Prigozhin (with a fatal end), or the “anti-Prigozhin” collective. Everything has just begun in Russia.
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