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  • Epilektoi_Hoplitai@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Footage of Prigozhin in Rostov, pictured with Deputy Minister of Defense, Colonel General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (at left, from 0:13 on) — see the latter’s official portrait photo for reference; looks like a match.

    edit: and Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy chief of GRU military intelligence 1

    Partial translation summary: Wagner issues orders to MoD commanders it has captured; will “blockade Rostov and go to [ed: towards?] Moscow until we get the Chief of the General Staff and Shoigu” 2, 3

    • Machine translation here. Highlight: Lt. Gen. Alekseyev tells Prigozhin, “the biggest thing that upsets me is… I hear there’s a party in Kyiv. With champagne”

    https://nitter.net/Tendar/status/1672463623078158337#m