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"The head of the Wagner mercenary force has said that 20,000 of its fighters
have been killed in the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, and warned
that Russia could face another revolution if its leadership does not improve
its handling of the war.
Yevgeny Prigozhin said 20% of the 50,000 convicts Wagner had recruited, and a
similar number of its regular troops, had been killed over several months in
the fight for Bakhmut.
Prigozhin pointed to the social disparity underlined by the war, with the sons
of the poor being sent back from the front in zinc coffins while the children
of the elite “shook their arses” in the sun.
“This divide can end as in 1917 with a revolution,” he said in an interview
posted on his channel on the Telegram messaging app. “First the soldiers will
stand up, and after that – their loved ones will rise up. There are already
tens of thousands of them – relatives of those killed. And there will probably
be hundreds of thousands – we cannot avoid that.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
