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Re: END For PUTIN-Wagner Chief Says Russia Losing Badly -Skulls Uncovered in Drained
Skulls Uncovered in Reservoir After Being Drained Following Ukraine Dam Breach
The Nova Kakhovka dam burst earlier this month, an incident deemed a major humanitarian and environmental disaster by many.
Wagner Chief Admits Russia Losing Badly Against Ukraines’ Counter-Offensive
Wagner Group financier and internally recognised war criminal Yevgeny Prigozhin issued yet another rebuke of the Armed Forces of Russia stationed in Ukraine on Tuesday in what he claimed was merely his update on the ongoing Ukrainian counter-offensives.
BBC 14 JUNE 2023
The human remains are believed to date back decades, as one skull can be seen wearing a World War II helmet.
Eight decades ago, the area became the theatre of the Battle of the Dnipro, during which thousands of German and Soviet soldiers lost their lives.
During this key WWII fight, the Soviet Army launched a counter-attack against the Germans, an operation which involved more than six million troops.
In late 1943, the fight focused on Nikopol, where many of the skeletons were found.
The level of water in the Kakhovka Reservoir continues to decrease. The human remains are believed to be dating back decades
At the time, Nikopol was a site of metal ore mines Adolf Hitler was determined to hold on to.
However, after sustaining a series of attacks launched by Soviet troops led by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky during the last months of 1943, German soldiers were eventually abandoned the town in February 1944.
The human remains may be mostly of Wehrmacht troops, Oleksii Kokot, an expert on German military relics in Ukraine, said.
The commentator explained the Soviet fallen were buried, while "dead German soldiers were just left lying in the fields … therefore, these could really be German soldiers".
Wagner Chief Admits Russia Losing Badly Against Ukraines’ Counter-Offensive
Wagner Group financier and internally recognised war criminal Yevgeny Prigozhin issued yet another rebuke of the Armed Forces of Russia stationed in Ukraine on Tuesday in what he claimed was merely his update on the ongoing Ukrainian counter-offensives.
Wagner Group Stage Military Rebellion as They Refuse to Work for Russias' Army
Russian forces are “not doing enough to fight back against” the rapidly advancing Ukrainian troops, the Wagner Group leader has claimed. As Russian President Vladimir Putin baselessly suggested during a meeting with military journalists on Tuesday that his forces had destroyed 160 Ukrainian tanks and 360 armoured vehicles since the beginning of the counter offensive, Yevgeny Prigozhin shrugged off the claims as inaccurate, saying Ukraine had suffered only “normal combat losses”.
A US official familiar with American intelligence said Putin’s comments were “not accurate” and cautioned about putting any stock in Russia’s public assessments as more footage emerged purporting to show Ukrainian successes on the battlefield.
The Ruble Could End Putins' Reign Chart Maps Russian Currencys' Staggering Collapse
The ruble has now lost 34 percent of its value against the US dollar since its high point just over a year ago, making imports ever costlier for all suffering under Putin's regime.
Mass disinformation campaigns and an iron rule may be enough to prevent the Russian people from overthrowing Vladimir Putin, but the country's business elites are unlikely to suffer vanishing profit margins for long.
Last June, 100 units of the currency bought $1.85 at the peak of Russia’s exploitation of skyrocketing prices for its energy exports.
This has fallen to $1.21 today.
Combined with labour shortages this has the effect of intensifying inflationary pressures, and the Russian central bank has indicated it may have to hike the country’s interest rate for the first time since the early days of the war.
Alarm bells have been sounded by foreign analysts and policymakers in Moscow before, but the Russian economy has so far been able to defy doomsayers.
This time, however, the situation on the home front is heating up just as Ukrainian forces claim the first victories in their long-anticipated counteroffensive.
The ruble has now lost 34 percent of its value against the US dollar since its high point just over a year ago, making imports ever costlier for all suffering under Putin's regime.
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