Prigozhin and Wagner have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said on Saturday, in a de-escalation of what had become a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power. This is being reported by Reuters. The fighters of the Wagner private army run by former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin were already …
Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, appears to have moved fast and taken Rostov – southern military command. He knows where the Russian military leadership is. UPDATE: The coup or whatever this event was ended one day after it started. Prigozhin struck some kind of deal with the leader of Belarus as the broker. It is all …
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin appears to have launched an armed rebellion on June 23 to force a leadership change within the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) which is unlikely to succeed. Prigozhin amplified a video from a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel on June 23 which reportedly shows the aftermath of a missile strike on a …
There are reports of fighting between Wagner group mercenaries and regular Russian army. There are reports that Putin is in hiding. UPDATE: The coup or whatever this event was ended one day after it started. Prigozhin struck some kind of deal with the leader of Belarus as the broker. It is all very strange. We …
Ukrainian forces are “shifting to offensive actions” in some areas, the country’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar has said. On Monday evening she said Ukraine’s troops had made gains of up to one mile (1.6km) in several directions around Bakhmut. Ukrainian military sources told the BBC that a series of small scale armoured offensive operations …
The recent Bryce Tech quarterly report on the global space industry shows SpaceX launched over 80% of all payload mass to orbit. SpaceX launched 233 tons to orbit while second place, the country of China, launched less than 24 tons to orbit. SpaceX launched about 5 times more than China and Russia combined. SpaceX launched …
In the Kherson region, Ukrainians have increased their bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River to the point where many Russian sources started raising the alarm. Ukrainians established control over the proximate island with a lot of places for docking. Ukrainians are present in the residential area of one of the biggest and …
Many forecasters, like Peter Zeihan, were predicting economic disaster, disruption and shortages from the Russia-Ukraine war. The over $1 trillion semiconductor chip industry would be wrecked from a shortage of neon gas. 70% of the gas is made by Ukraine and Russia. The prices did shoot up but now have come back down and semiconductor …
The Russian-Ukraine has mainly become a war of attrition. The questions for such a war are which side has more endurance and can either side make breakthroughs that accelerate the collapse of the opponent. Russia and Ukraine will both attempt knockout blows and major offensives in this Spring and Summer. If there is no knockout …
More accurate counts of tanks in Russian storage tell us when Russia’s ability to replace destroyed tanks will drop. This will be a further drop in Russia’s military capability. The other key take away is that traditional military assessment sources like the International Institute for Strategic Studies (British research institute) are likely less accurate than …
Saudi Arabia, Iraq and several Gulf states (OPEC Plus) said on Sunday they were cutting oil production by more than one million barrels of oil a day. OPEC Plus includes the main OPEC countries and Russia and a few other countries. The reduction in output is being made by members of the Opec+ oil producers. …