It's also good at shooting down unarmed passenger aircraft.
Well, without going to space, anyway.
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Well, what actually happened is that he fell out of the plane window... accidentally of course... and fell into the engine. Explosion explained
Oh shit, I just realised that last week the Russian space craft racing India to the south pole of the moon 'accidentally' crashed....
Who are the other Wagner group leaders presumed dead in plane crash?
Those said to have died alongside Yevgeny Prigozhin include Dmitry Utkin, whose call sign was ‘Wagner’
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The passenger list shows a number of other high-ranking Wagner personnel among the presumed-dead. Most notably Dmitry Utkin, the neo-Nazi co-founder.
Fortunately, we have exclusive footage of the last few minutes of Pringles life.Who are the other Wagner group leaders presumed dead in plane crash?
Those said to have died alongside Yevgeny Prigozhin include Dmitry Utkin, whose call sign was ‘Wagner’
The passenger list shows a number of other high-ranking Wagner personnel among the presumed-dead. Most notably Dmitry Utkin, the neo-Nazi co-founder.
That was a once in a blue moon level of quality. Well done.
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Huge article on the nordstream pipeline sabotage, by the Spiegel, for those interested :
www.spiegel.de
Apparently it was an ukrainian act.
(Also, a bittersweet piece about ISS cooperation during this war : https://www.theguardian.com/science...-international-space-station-at-a-time-of-war )
Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points To Kyiv
It's a spy thriller that has the potential to change the course of international politics: A year ago, a secret commando blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Since then, investigators have been searching for the perpetrators. The leads they have found are extremely politically...
www.spiegel.de
Apparently it was an ukrainian act.
(Also, a bittersweet piece about ISS cooperation during this war : https://www.theguardian.com/science...-international-space-station-at-a-time-of-war )
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Also, russia confirms prigozhin's identity after dna analysis, which increases the probability of his death (if it was a fake-out meant to fool russia, russia would probably not play along, and i'm not sure why russia itself would have organized such a fake-out).
I can imagine them doing that to save face, I don't think Putin wants people to see you can armed revolt and get away unscathed. But it would require a scenario where the are incapable of actually killing the man AND have his cooperation to never show his face in public again, which is certainly an unlikely scenario.
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The only russian scenario I imagined would have been a kidnapping for vengeful putinist torture, behind an appearance of clean death. But not only that would be far-fetched and unlikely, the difference with the official discourse wouldn't matter much to me.
Hey Russia. You guys remember - in English anyway - that the CC in CCTV stands for closed circuit. Which means if you did this properly, this wouldn't have happened.
What, and let the average Russian say something bad about Putin without him getting to know about it?
One of the problems about Russia is that it can be so hard to determine what's true or not, because the state deliberately interweaves truth and lies so much. Thus I leave open the possibility Prigozhin was murdered by a lesser official with a grudge without Putin's direct permission, but either way the reaction of the Russian state would be pretty much identical.
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I missed the fact much of the Senior Wagner Leadership was on that plane and like Perun, I have to wonder if the guy who allowed that to happen was a complete moron or secretly working for Putin.
Kremlin’s propaganda film about Ukraine war plays to empty cinemas
The box-office flop, about a fictional violinist who gets caught up in the atrocities, is further evidence that Russians want to forget about the invasion
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Russia has released its first propaganda film for domestic cinemas focusing on the invasion of Ukraine, titled The Witness. It shows the invasion as justified by Ukrainian 'provocation' and depicts Ukrainian soldiers pledging loyalty to Hitler.
It's a box office disaster-- budget of 1.5m, and has so far made back... 110k. Screenings are empty.
Good thing they had a lot of military equipment just lying around unused to use for the film.Kremlin’s propaganda film about Ukraine war plays to empty cinemas
The box-office flop, about a fictional violinist who gets caught up in the atrocities, is further evidence that Russians want to forget about the invasion
Russia has released its first propaganda film for domestic cinemas focusing on the invasion of Ukraine, titled The Witness. It shows the invasion as justified by Ukrainian 'provocation' and depicts Ukrainian soldiers pledging loyalty to Hitler.
It's a box office disaster-- budget of 1.5m, and has so far made back... 110k. Screenings are empty.
Also " Russia’s culture ministry on Thursday said that it won’t issue special permission to pirate copyrights to the movie "
So...that's a thing they sometimes do? Copyright privateers are a thing?