I imagine there's some fanatics of the commander that are completely disillusioned right now as well.
Plenty of them. I already posted (formerly) AP Wagner disavowing Progozhin.
Convicts from Storm Z unit who voiced support for Prigozhin's march yesterday recorded another address to Prigozhin accusing him of backing down. While they use a lot of convict speak and look convincing, it may not be sensible to reveal themselves like that. Regardless, such sentiment is not uncommon in the Russian forces after Prigozhin stopped without reaching Moscow.
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It remains to be seen what happens to the small people and men on the ground who believed Prigozhin.
This whole clown show likely did not help already terrible morale among Russian troops.
What I find funny is that the Chechens somehow managed to be too late everywhere to actually do anything and only arrived at the scene after everything was resolved. They did manage to film tiktoks of their column standing still in various places and patrol near Moscow (post Wagner withdrawal) though.
Failed counterattack? The Ukrainians haven't really started their counter attack yet. I don't know how it can be failed. From what I understand they are still probing the Russians lines.
From what I read they did probe, but found not real weakness, so instead of a punch through the lines they continued their slow and methodical advance while grinding down what is left of the Russian military. For some reason the Russians conducted some disastrous (for them) counterattacks, which certainly helps. The main issue seem to be the minefields that make any quick movements or exploitation of openings impossible, combined with Russian airforce being able to attack from beyond the range of front line air defenses. There were some notable losses of Ukraine air defense systems recently, so it seems like they moved them closer, but the losses show why that's a difficult decision.
Here's an example of what was happening in Ukraine while Russians were killing each other.
1st Mechanized Battalion, 3rd Assault Brigade storms Russian trenches near Bakhmut
So while the counteroffensive did not outright fail, it also did not succeed either. Still, the fact is that the Russian army has few, if any, reserves and is incapable of conducting more than small local counterattacks, while the Ukrainian army has not committed most of their NATO equipped and trained troops and can pick their battles.
Russia lost the ability to win this war militarily half a year ago, but that doesn't mean Ukraine has won it.
Another topic: Ziggers are kokokoing about how Ukraine is stupid for not exploiting this, but the frontline minefields and troops were unaffected by all the chaos and didn't go away. Funny because at first they were kokokoing about how it was a trap to lure Ukrainians into making costly attacks. Or that it was a show to conceal Wagner movements (???). Now the new delusion is that Wagner will invade from Belarus. The innocent souls don't live in reality, so they are unaware that the border between Ukraine and Belarus are trackless woods and swamps that are now flooded, mined and defended by TDF. There's reasons why the Russians left and never came back to that region.
I remain weirded out by their extreme emotional investment in this conflict in combination with a refusal to engage with any facts, or with arguments outside of their heavily curated social media bubble. They say Prigozhin factually describing the action of the Russian government, facts which are known to actual Russian military personnel, which is why expressing them openly gave him his good reputation among them to begin with, is him "repeating NATO talking points". They think it means he is on a CIA payroll. Elite schizophrenics have connected that with the recent discovery of the incorrect valuation of US arms supplies to know for a fact that he was paid 6.2 billion dollars for this.
