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Wagner Group 300 km from Moscow edit Sorry yall I am an American and typed miles out of muscle memory (press.coop)
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Attached: 1 image Just over 300 km to Moscow The Wagnerians are moving forward. The governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, confirmed that the equipment of the #Wagner PMC is moving on the territory of the region. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1672602398915809282 #press

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's pretty simple.

  • Wagner and the Russian Army are competing for increasingly limited supplies in Ukraine.

  • This led Prigozhin to complain publicly about the Russian Ministry of Defense.

  • In response, Putin was planning to subordinate Wagner to the Russian Army.

Subordination would limit Prigozhin's power and also reduce or eliminate his personal source of income. Which basically forced the events playing out today.