The past two days have been hectic on Social Media. Real news, fake news, nonsense, and the usual idiots. I know it’s been hard for you guys to really parse out what was going on and why. So I’m going to do what I do best and break the important parts down in chronological order.
SHOIGU! GERASIMOV!
Over the winter the Ukrainian battlefield was pretty stagnant, there was only one person actually making gains and that was Prigozhin and his private military Wagner Group. They were fighting in and around a small town called Bakhmut. This created some friction between Prigozhin and the Russian ministry of defense.