How Russia's state media reacted to the Wagner Group rebellion | DW News

Saturday's alleged coup attempt by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group has been marked by uncertainty and a great amount of speculation. For Russian news outlets - used to sticking to the Kremlin's script - interpreting the developing news posed a real challenge.

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[mrbaywatch]

I wish Russia the best in fighting its war against Russia

[gluteusmaximus]

I think it is safe to say that a big part of Russians wanted the Wagners to slap the Czar in the face!

[cbm]

The Russian media was confused. It could not figure out which side they needed to be on. They wanted to support the government but could not figure who what side that was. They did not want to choose the wrong side so they became very confused in their coverage.

[andrewbogle]

Prigozhin’s march on Moscow was a ‘special military operation’. What Russia is prosecuting in Ukraine is what is universally recognised as a war.

[JacobStein]

Can we imagine 25, 000 American soldiers, heavily armed, leaving a military base in Georgia under the command of their officers and marching on Washington in protest of an American foreign policy. On the way they shoot down air force planes which attack them. Then just before they get to Washington they are told that all criminal charges have been dropped and they are free to go to Canada, so they turn around and drive back to base. Wouldn’t that show a little bit of weakness in the US government?

[kylebaddog]

It’s almost as toxic as my work environment

[rabbitt-eeyu]

When Pregozyn was 200km away Putin got on a flight to St Petersberg running away from Moscow.

Shoigu got in a Helicopter and few away from Moscow to, leaving other generals to hide.

Putin now has the nerve to stand in front of his army and thank the soldiers who he has given orders to be shot if they take "1 step backwards" when he ran away himself.

How does that sit with the soldiers on the ground?

[edwardkennedy]

You should also monitor the reaction of Russian trolls on this topic. It was just hilarious, especially considering that the main troll farms belong to Prigozhin, but their task is to glorify Putin.

[LuisBrudna]

I know this portion of the population. They applaud any authoritarian and war-supporting figure. They are not interested in what it will be, but that they satisfy their thirst for violence and authoritarianism against foreigners. Here in Brazil we also have people like that.

[DarxKies]

"almost mafia structures"? Why almost?

[Pootie_Tan]

The Russian script this weekend was better than all the WWE scripts ever written

[MrBothandNether]

A couple of small facts he may have missed

Mercenary don’t do anything unless money is involved

Russia cannot afford its own mercenaries anymore

Those mercenary tried to auction off Moscow to the highest bidder


But nobody wanted it

[CJusticeHappen]

Putin believes that Russia has an inevitable destiny. He believes that this destiny is to one day be recognized by the world as a super power. I agree with the first part, there is an inevitable destiny awaiting Russia if Putin remains in control.

[-xirx-]

Does this mean an end to exploding statues?
Prigozhin's troll farms have been offline for a few days now too, shocking how noticeable it is.

[dk]

Lessons learned by the rest of the world: centralised media systems provide control but remain catastrophically fragile to unexpected perturbations.

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"Everything is going according to plan." 🤭

[beefsuprem]

This is like 1984, the war with Oceana goes well...hang on weren't they allies yesterday? 🤔

[sebastianverney]

Russians can now see, at last, Their Emperor Has No Clothes.

[cobbler]

When you have people recording events on their phones then uploading them you cannot control the media.

[lashlarue]

6:26 No, not "almost being... mafia structures" — LITERALLY they are mafia structures. The line between organized crime and government is non-existent in Russia.