Where is Putin?

I don’t understand why Putin is not making public broadcasts and is relying on Generals to issue pleas to Wagner. Is he not confident in his own popularity or is he just too busy?

Also….

Me: You can’t launch a deep armored strike without control of the air in modern war.

Wagner: Watch this.

It remains to be seen if I am right. But I am surprised by all the videos I am seeing of long columns of Wagner moving on highways and nobody attacking them. Does he have a lot of internal support? Really good anti-air? Or is the Russian air force still in the figuring things out stage even after almost a full day. You would think they would want to squash this early and brutally.

The below video talks about some gossip to explain the lack of air power.

Videos that tell the Wagner Story

Wagner Commander’s Message To all oF Russia.

Hacked Russian Television Channels Playing Prigozhin Call To Coup

Translation is below the video. Note he has gun in his lap, I think that is to show he is serious because a man of his rank would not normally have that kind of gun on him Russian General’s Desperate Plea To Wagner Group

Military Vehicles Seen Moving To Establish Checkpoints In Moscow

Russian Armor Rolled Into The Streets Of Rostov

This is the video that Wagner released that kicked all of this off. It supposedly shows the aftermath of the Russia strike on their position.

Overview Of The Current Status Of The War In Ukraine

Executive Summary For Those That Don’t Want To Read The Entire Thing: My best guess is that that Ukraine is currently trying to fix into place Russian troops in preparation for a break through. I think that Ukraine is trying to make up for their inability to create strategic surprise by fixing the Russians in place with the idea that Ukraine will be able to shift their attack faster than the Russians can react. The new found aggressiveness of Russian air assets are a significant threat to this plan. Ukraine’s only hope is that weak Russian logistics and shortage of quality infantry will enable Ukraine to push through in spite of this threat.

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Why? *Edit*

I don’t understand this at all. Who really benefits from this? The only thing I am pretty sure of is that it was not done by “shelling” as Russia is accusing Ukraine of doing.

Edit: They took down the video I posted this morning. Here is a new one.

The example of underwater gas lines in the above video is unfortunate because there is a good chance that Ukraine did that but there is very little chance that Ukraine blew this up.

A real life evac

So much of what they tried to teach me is in the below video from Ukraine. Granted, were were being trained to do things in austere environments and not combat but we were taught to improvise litters and we did do carries and how to swap out while in motion. Our evacs were easier but I am not sure what my teachers would have made of the splint. Hard to tell from the video but it does not look like they put much effort into forming it. But then, they were under fire…..