- 🇷🇺 BREAKING: Wagner convoys were seen by locals in the city of Stepanshchino, just past Kolomna

They are about to enter Moscow's 3rd outer ring, still about 2 hrs to Moscow.

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- 🇷🇺 BREAKING: Deal reportedly reached by mediation of Lukashenko, Prigozhin agreed for his Wagner fighters to stand down

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- This supposed "deal" sounds very strange to me

What is Prigozhin going to get for agreeing to stand down? He won't just do all of this for nothing.

If Putin agrees to fire Shoigu and Gerasimov, Putin's political career will come to a screeching end, as this would be a huge sign of weakness, and his legitimacy would be at stake.

As a president, you cannot cave in to the demands of an armed rebellion. If you do, what prevents others from using violence to achieve their goals from you in the future?

The only option is for Putin to take resolute action to destroy the Wagner company on its way, and to punish all of its members that participated.

However, perhaps Putin made a 'fake' deal with Prigozhin to borrow some time, to shore up the Russian defenses, before this can truly happen.

We will see.

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🇷🇺❗❗New Prigozhin voice message - "We came within 200km of Moscow without shedding a drop of blood, now there is the possibility of blood being shed, understanding this responsibility we will turn around our convoys and return to our bases"

- If Putin legitimately makes a deal with Prigozhin, he is negotiating with someone who is an open traitor, someone who killed Russians for his own personal ambitions

Putin will massively lose respect for the type of leader he is still perceived as being. You simply cannot do that.

- 🇷🇺 BREAKING: Sources say that Wagner fighters under Prigozhin's command are not happy with his decision to reach a deal

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- 🇷🇺 Wagner Fighter: "They said we would go to Moscow, so Moscow is where I want to go, none of this bullshit"

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- Inb4 Wagner troops turn on Prigozhin & drive to Moscow anyway, overthrowing both Putin and Prigozhin, leading to a military Junta

🇷🇺⚡️- PMC Wagner fighters in Rostov are loading their equipment onto vehicles and preparing to leave.

- Ok, so apparently this was it

A military rebellion drove to Moscow, shot down multiple Russian airplanes and helicopters on the way, and now a deal was made and everyone will pretend nothing happened.

I guess violence is the solution?

- 🇷🇺 Girkin: A civil war was avoided

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- Average NATO enthousiast

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- So wtf is Prigozhin gaining from this?

- 🇷🇺 Kremlin: We have no idea where Prigozhin is right now

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- 🇮🇷/🇦🇪 A few days ago, the Iranian foreign minister visited the United Arab Emirates

He got a very warm, almost VIP-like treatment, being driven around personally by Prince Abdullah bin Zayed, the UAE foreign minister and the son of the late Sheikh Zayed, founder of the UAE.

Before he left, President Mohammed bin Zayed gave him personal goodbye wishes, which is normally only reserved for heads of state.

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- Back to the boring "normal" programming

- 🇷🇺 BREAKING: For some reason, Wagner PMC forces still control the military airfields in Rostov and Millerovo

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- They left now

- 🕋 🕌 Tomorrow marks the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca

Each year, millions of faithful Muslims from around the globe flock to the Ka'ba, to rid themselves of worldly desires and reaffirm their total submission to God.

Above is a prayer known as the Talbiyah, that Muslims recite constantly throughout their pilgrimage:

"Here I am, at Your service, 'O God. Here I am. To you is no partner nor any equal.

Here I am. To you alone belongs all Praise and all Excellence, and to you belongs all Sovereignity. There is no partner to you.

Let us Muslims unite amongst one another, and amongst the Abrahamic faiths, for God is the only source of goodness in this world.

Let us let go of our worldly and carnal desires, to glorify the One and Only.

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