alyaza [they/she]Jun 24, 2023

MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now

https://beehaw.org/post/742740

MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now - Beehaw

please post any subsequent updates here unless they’re huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don’t have to be their own thread

Show threadConstableJellyJun 24, 2023
I think I read Wagner forces number about 25,000? Can anyone contextualize how big a headache this will be for Russia?
Show threadroofuskitJun 24, 2023
Add to that a brigade (2,000-8,000) of Russian special forces that defected. Those guys are probably worth 2-3 national guardsman.
Show threadmiket
Question is, is it true?
Jun 24, 2023 at 4:20pmWeb
Show threadroofuskitJun 24, 2023

Hard to tell. What is abundantly clear is that they are meeting little to no resistance. Otherwise they would have never gotten this far. Whether troops really are joining them I can't confirm. It's all coming in very rapidly from sources I have no experience with.

I'm going to update my previous comment to add "allegedly."