Russia and Ukraine

[Deesse23]

Well played, sir.

2:0 😁

[The Grand Nudger]

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[Fake Messiah]

Putin facing mutiny from biggest Ukraine war backers as impending coup fears soar

Vladimir Putin is facing mutiny from his biggest war Ukraine backers amid fears of an impending coup. An unprecedented wave of defeatism over the war has gripped the “toxic” Kremlin dictator’s most ardent supporters.

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This follows a wave of crippling Ukrainian drone and missile strikes which have paralysed Putin’s oil exports and savaged his key military factories. Russian gains on the frontline have ground to a virtual halt, with some reversals, amid catastrophic losses of 8,000 or more soldiers a week. “We've been kicked in the balls again,” raged state TV propagandist and war pundit Aleksandr Sladkov, after five days of strikes Russian’s leading oil exporting hub unimpeded by Russian air defences. “The port in Ust-Luga on the Gulf of Finland is burning again.” He appeared to mock Putin, 73, likening him to dimwitted Baldrick in British comedy series Blackadder, as the tight curbs on criticising the Kremlin warmonger were abandoned. “Much is being said behind the scenes about our possibly cunning plan,” he declared.

“But some doubt it: what kind of cunning plan is this, which sees our businesses swatted like flies with a flyswatter?”

Russia's largest pro-war “Z-blogger” on Telegram, Yuriy Podolyaka, accused the Putin regime of military ineptitude, claiming: “I don't think we'll be able to turn the tide here in the next few months.”

He openly praised the Ukrainians.

“Our enemy is very, very serious, and, incidentally, very fast-learning, much faster than we are.”

The unprecedented backlash further hit Putin with another war fanatic Maksim Kalashnikov candidly stating the Russian elite has lost faith in the 5ft 7 inch Kremlin tyrant.

“Now our ruling [class] view the current top leadership as a toxic figure - not even an asset, but a liability,” he said.

“They very much want this war to end, for the return of the old good times, when one could freely travel to the West, not fear sanctions, sell hydrocarbons, and regain the European market.”

Putin’s own ultra-nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin met troops on the frontline and found them in “a frenzied rage combined with despair.

In four-plus years of war, a paranoid Putin has never gone to the frontline to talk to ordinary soldiers - unlike his foe Volodymyr Zelensky.

In a chorus of gloom over the war, another Russian propagandist, war correspondent for Putin’s favourite newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Grigory Kubatyan, admitted Russia’s vast army was failing, and peace talks were now needed to end the conflict.

This comes amid fury across Russia that Putin’s is poised to use April Fool’s Day to block Telegram, the country’s popular messaging app - vital on the frontline but also for businesses and regular communications.

This follows the blocking of internet across Moscow and other cities and regions amid unspecified “security fears”, triggering claims of Kremlin fears over coup plots.

Some observers are forecasting a coup - until now seen as unthinkable - perhaps from within the regime.

“The events of blocking Telegram and creating reasons for public discontent are deliberate and reminiscent of preparations for a state coup, a….revolution, or something similar,” warned commentator Evgeny Andrushchenko.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/218...ar-backers

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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Belacqua’s gonna be so depressed.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Putin facing mutiny from biggest Ukraine war backers as impending coup fears soar

Vladimir Putin is facing mutiny from his biggest war Ukraine backers amid fears of an impending coup. An unprecedented wave of defeatism over the war has gripped the “toxic” Kremlin dictator’s most ardent supporters.

Some observers are forecasting a coup - until now seen as unthinkable - perhaps from within the regime.

I've been thinking for a couple of years that a coup will be the likely outcome of this war for Russia. I'm pretty sure I've posted as much upthread in that timeframe. It seems to be the favored way to overthrow the Russian autocrat du jour -- wait for defeat in war and then out come the knives.

[Jackalope]

Putin facing mutiny from biggest Ukraine war backers as impending coup fears soar

Vladimir Putin is facing mutiny from his biggest war Ukraine backers amid fears of an impending coup. An unprecedented wave of defeatism over the war has gripped the “toxic” Kremlin dictator’s most ardent supporters.

I've been thinking for a couple of years that a coup will be the likely outcome of this war for Russia. I'm pretty sure I've posted as much upthread in that timeframe. It seems to be the favored way to overthrow the Russian autocrat du jour -- wait for defeat in war and then out come the knives.

I wish they'd, you know, hurry it up a bit.

[The Grand Nudger]

Early this morning Ukraine hit a production facility in the occupied territories making artillery shells. The strike went on for over an hour without any return fire from russian air defense.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/30/u...o-be-seen/

Is that bad for an artillery based force?

[Leonardo17]

Today is the 4th anniversary of the Bucha Massacre. Kaja Kallas and other European leaders have visited the site where 120 people (according to the OHCHR) have been tortured and murdered by Russian troops in April 2022.

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