Nicolas Cinquini

in Gustave Flaubert’s novel, the mercenaries wanted money, Yevgeny Prigozhin is seeking power

Yevgeny Prigozhin has freaked out. In his personal feud against the Russian defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, the head of Wagner private military company (PMC) has claimed that the Russian forces were retreating, which is an obvious lie and Ukrainian propaganda, while they are breaking the Atlanticist attacks for three weeks. In the evening of June 23, he has even called for an armed uprising. The judiciary authorities have opened a criminal case against him and the State security agency (FSB) has asked Wagner fighters to arrest him.

My opinion is that Prigozhin is either insane or a player of the Atlanticist hybrid counteroffensive. In the second case, the investigators, who are not physicians, will ascertain how long he is corrupt. A joke is trending on social networks

Objection ! The defendant could not organize an armed rebellion because the defense minister has not provided him with enough ammo !

I think now that during the battle for Bakhmut, Sergey Shoigu was pretty right. More seriously, the dispute over ammunition supply was then the result of Wagner tactics on the battlefield. The private fighters are attacking with a huge artillery support, are using far more shells than their counterparts. At the scale of the whole Russian special military operation, Wagner was an abyss for ammunition.

Fomer US intelligence officer within the US Marines Corps (USMC), then United Nations inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter has written a must-read article. MISE (Money, Ideology, Sex, Ego) is the matrix that the intelligence agencies are using worldwide, in order to recruit agents. Ritter tells us how the oversized ego of Yevegeny Prigozhin may have enabled the Ukrainian and Western intelligence agencies to make him the ultimate and pathetic tool of their hybrid strategy, in order to dismantle Russia.

The defense ministry is henceforth requiring that all volunteer military formations sign a contract which is subordinating them to the general staff. All have accepted, except Wagner. But that contract is now a prerequisite for the financial and material support from the ministry. Failing that, Prigozhin will be unable to find more glory on the battlefield.

At about 3:30 am, on June 24, the first fighting breaks out in the vicinity of Rostov, where Prigozhin’s gunmen shoot down a Russian helicopter. But the federal authorities appear weak and no airstrike targets on the highway the column of insurgents, who around 5:00 am, seize control of the administrative buildings in the city, including the headquarters of the southern military command

Later, around 7:00 am, the Russian forces manage to destroy two vehicles in the vicinity of Voronej, 600 km north of Rostov, 600 south of Moscow. That is a second column

Meanwhile, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a cook, businessman and henceforth, a politician, not the real military commander of Wagner on the battlefield, is playing soldier in the headquarters of the southern military command in Rostov, that the regular army has not defended

But some civilians are protesting against that fascist coup attempt

After a serious delay, I think, the FSB starts at about 9:00 am searching the headquarters of Wagner in Saint Petersburg. At 10:00 am, at last, Vladimir Putin addresses the country, states that the traitors will be punished and Rostov, pacified

The rebels shoot down an Il-18(22) reconnaissance aircraft

In the afternoon, an oil tank is burning in Voronej. Aimed at a Russian helicopter, a manPAD missile may have hit the facility

The search has been successful in Saint Petersburg. The law enforcement has found four billion rubles, in banknotes

From Ukraine, Nazi militant Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (Russkiy dobrovol’cheskiy korpus, RDK), a bunch of Nazi defectors and a combat formation of the Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), is supporting Prigozhin

The rebels have officially become the vanguard in Russia of the Atlanticist forces

According moreover to rumors in Donetsk People’s Republic, Prigozhin would plan to seize Krasnodar, east of Crimea and 300 km south of Rostov. Such a successful move would cut both main lines of communication between continental Russia and the peninsula. Krasnodar has no interest in the prospect of a coup, but Crimea is an Atlanticist strategic goal. The rebels would confirm that they are Western auxiliaries and the coup, a part of a wider plan.

From the front line of the proxy war that NATO is waging in Donbass and Ukraine, among many others, servicemen of the 155th naval infantry brigade, Pacific fleet, are expressing their support to Russia and Vladimir Putin

BILD is a reactionary tabloid for rednecks in West Germany, where their elders have not been enough cracked down for their Nazism during WW2, a crude NATO propaganda outlet from Syria to Ukraine

But the information that BILD is broadcasting near midnight (1:00 am in Russia) are outdated. President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko is acting as broker between Vladimir Putin and the rebels, who started leaving Rostov after 9:00 pm. The Kremlin states that the charges will be dropped if Prigozhin leaves Russia, that Belarus is ready to host him. In consideration of their military feats, the rank and file will not be sued. Members of Wagner who have refused to participate in the uprising will be allowed to sign a contract with the defense ministry

Prigozhin has miserably failed, but due to his vanity and the stupidity of his followers, 15 Russian service members have died. The rebels have shot down seven aircraft.