“Strengthening Anti-Western Solidarity to Accelerate World Reconstruction”

Accelerate the reconstruction of the world framework by strengthening the solidarity of the anti-Western camp

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Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery near Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, May 15, 2023. Photo: AP/Aflo

(Kaori Fukushima: Journalist)

During Golden Week, a video circulated on Twitter of Prigozhin, the head of the Russian private military company Wagner, calling out Russian Defense Minister Joigu and Chief of General Staff Gerasimov with furious cursing.

According to the Washington Post (May 14), among classified US military documents leaked to the chat app Discord, Prigozhin provided information on the location of Russian forces to Ukraine in January of this year (2023). It is said that it contained information that he was approaching the provision of

Speaking of Wagner, it is the main force of the Russian side in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, and has maintained the front until now, even though it suffered many casualties. However, Prigozhin had repeatedly offered to provide information on the location of Russian troops on the condition that Ukrainian forces would withdraw from the vicinity of Bakhmut. The Ukrainian side reportedly did not trust Prigozhin and rejected his proposal.

If this is true, there is speculation that Putin may have been betrayed by the troops he thought were his allies, and that he would be in a state of so-called hiding, counting down the countdown to defeat. At the same time, some people have expressed the frightening prediction that a cornered Putin will use tactical nuclear weapons as soon as he dies.

Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasia affairs and former ambassador to Russia, who has been dispatched to Kyiv since May 16, is attracting attention as to whether he will be Putin’s savior, or whether he will be the one to lead him. is.

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