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Leader of Wagner mercenaries says forces entered Russian city of Rostov facing no resistance (www.pbs.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rostov holds the HQ of the Russian ministry of defense, and is also a major logistics hub.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This doesn’t sound like a civil war. This sounds like a shake up at most.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, I agree. I think this will fizzle out before long. However, on the off chance this does blow up into a full-blown civil war, who knows whose hands the nukes are going to fall into?