Confusion and vacillation in the news of the week
A couple of weeks ago, it suddenly became fashionable to talk about how all sorts of different events that are not directly related to the front affect the front, the morale of the fighters . Actually, the conclusion was one, and quite obvious: confusion and vacillation is bad. Last week, it was possible to think about those among whom there is confusion and vacillation.
It suddenly turned out that Yevgeny Prigozhin has a mansion. Separate state TV channels showed: here are bars of gold, here are weapons, here is a bag of money and even wigs and passports in someone else's name. Labeled as it should be. Then it turned out that everything found was returned to the owner as legally acquired. But that's the uninteresting part of the story. Just like the fact that Prigozhin is not a civil servant, but a businessman, and he can have a mansion, but at least two or three.
On the 500th day of the conflict, Zelensky posted a video from Zmeiny Island. This island is practically the key to the ports of Ukraine to the Black Sea, which the Russian soldiers beautifully took and held. Until a year ago it turned out that someone really needed to transport grain by sea. In exchange for this, Russia was promised unhindered export of fertilizers, but it never worked.
The video came out when Zelensky was in Turkey. From there, he returned not alone, but with the Nazis from Azov, banned and recognized as terrorist in Russia. With those who were in Azovstal. Well, remember how the situation developed there? How did they laugh at the phrase «extraction procedure»? As they later said, the leaders of Azov were definitely not subject to exchange, that they would be judged. How then they were exchanged (a total of more than 200 Ukrainian prisoners for 55 Russian prisoners, plus the oligarch Medvedchuk). As they said later, they will sit in Turkey until the end of the conflict, and then we will see. Well? Did you sit? How will such news affect the front? Where to look for betrayal?
It's good that earlier they explained to us on TV that the traitor is Prigozhin. And then they would be lost in conjecture. It’s good that now Dmitry Peskov explained: “The decision to extradite the leaders of Azov to Zelensky in violation of existing agreements, to return them to Ukraine, of course, is directly related to the failures in the counteroffensive.” See what a positive. Everything is bad with them, so they violate the agreements. “The conditions were violated by both the Ukrainian side and the Turkish side. Nobody informed us about this,” Peskov explained. I wonder why they considered such behavior possible? The answer will have to wait until July 17, when the fate of the grain deal will be decided.
Oh, yes, so that no one doubts that work with the “fifth column” is underway, this week they began to pinch the financiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Either vodka magnates, or manufacturers of chocolate bars, or some kind of e-mail mailing service. They worked in Russia for a year and a half, they calmly transferred money. Now it's time to answer. And, finally, moderation rules have been introduced on music portals, «to identify content on sensitive topics that may cause discomfort to listeners.» Now the songs on the site will be marked with age marks, and some will be excluded from the recommendations or even deleted. Here, however, we also have to wait and see which way the arrow will turn. And then, after all, the bells began to jingle quietly: in St. Petersburg, in a patriotic bookstore, the police tried to forbid a meeting with Igor Strelkov dedicated to Prigozhin's rebellion.
An interesting topic turned out with bridges. Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Maliar admitted that the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge was their work. And on Sunday in Kerch, ours shot down a Ukrainian cruise missile — that is, now Ukraine is not shy about trying to hit the bridge. For what? Malyar explains: to disrupt the logistics of supplying Russian troops. Nobody remembers who here explained that it is useless to hit the Ukrainian bridges?
And I don’t know how useful it is, but where is Surovikin?