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[-] downpunxx@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

The Wagnerites also seized the buildings of the head office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB department, the administration of #Rostov and one of the police departments, according to local channels. Nobody in the city understands what's going on.

https://press.coop/@nexta_tv/110596856860216270

[-] andobando@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Like watching Cobra attack the Decepticons.

[-] mookulator@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Can you explain the significance of these buildings?

Are they the head offices of those departments, or the offices that are in that city?

How powerful are these departments?

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Rostov is the admin centre of Rostov Oblast (state capital city). I would assume the main offices are in Moscow and these are the regional headquarters.

So while it is big if they have taken them it is not as big as if they had done so in Moscow.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

The city is apparently the base for the Russian southern military district command which is key to the war efforts in Ukraine - according to the Institute for the Study of War via the Guardian

[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nobody knew what was going on in 1968 czechoslovakia as well, when the russians came with the tanks. I don't really wish them any harm, but I'm glad they can experience the same confusion now. May this experience serve as a warning.

[-] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Actually Russians didn't come here. Soviets did, but not from Russia.

[-] Pili@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I doubt the people in Rostov are the ones who were in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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