Russia had another bad week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to plant the Russian flag on the moon‘s south pole ended in failure when the Luna 25 spacecraft crashed on the lunar surface.
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Then, on Wednesday, the Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian S-400 missile system in Crimea near the village of Olenivka on Cape Tarkhankut, further weakening the air defense umbrella for Russian forces on the peninsula. Suddenly, freeing Crimea is becoming a possibility.
That same day, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aircraft plunged 28,000 feet from the sky north of Moscow. The founder of Russia’s Wagner Group mercenary force and nine other passengers and crew, including Prigozhin’s second in command, Dmitry Utkin, purportedly died on impact.
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, denied any Kremlin…
