#war …

#Wagner is certainly not making any friends on its own side, as now the Chechens have been incensed by them. We can expect in the future that any Russian unit which takes up flank or rear positions next to Wagner will continue retaliatory sabotaging actions. But the Russian MOD will probably have no choice but to send Wagner somewhere they can be kept out of trouble. They’re like a chained pitbull you have to point at the enemy and let them go, then run away and hope they cause as much damage as possible and none of it is to you.

Either way, I can personally empathize with both positions simply because, even though #Prigozhin does treat the war as some kind of personal mob fiefdom or mafia turf war, it still doesn’t take away the fact that many of his issues with the MOD could very well be genuine. After all, the Russian MOD is not free from blame; they should be in charge and handling these situations. But particularly when it comes to the newly mobilized and volunteer battalions, there is much to be desired in the way they’ve husbanded and utilized them thus far.

And by the way, under the cover of all this drama, Russia continued to gain territory in several directions. Not only did they restore all positions that were initially taken by Ukraine’s Zaporozhye push, which had initially claimed to have captured one small settlement just south of Velyka Novosilka.