The Chairman’s Response:
As soon as the news about the start of the republican revolution on eastern Visrodin reached the capital city of Sarnitsa, Chairman Anton Todorov immediately decreed the mandatory conscription of large numbers of able-bodied men, mainly from the provinces the military holds a firm control over.
Todorov has called members of the USSR, the SRA and any Visrodin citizen who may join them traitors, and condemns the spread of socialism and communism over the country. With this argument, Todorov has also issued a public statement, destined for other international leaders, calling for possible aid for the military dictatorship, saying that: “his rule will be preferrable to the existence of any socialist regime in Pacifica”.
Viktor III Rucheyski, despite being the Knyaz and official Head of State of Visrodin has reportedly not been allowed to hold any public statements. The Knyaz remains in the Royal Palace in Sarnitsa, recovering from his recent heart attack.
A Republican Zimnitsa:
Zimnitsa, the coastal province immediately south of Maglenets, the main birthplace of the revolution, has seen itself under attack by the SRA from the Nevenovo direction. SRA militia already made their way to the large city of Lazurovo, and have fought several skirmishes with some soldiers of the Visrodin Army.
However, these skirmishes were short-lasting, as the garrison of the Visrodin Army unexpectedly surrendered. It is being reported that a large group of soldiers from the Visrodin Army ambushed and shot the main commander of the Zimnitsa Garrison, and forced other high-ranking commanders in the garrison to surrender power to them.
This event is just one of the most impactful mutinies and defections that are ocurring in the recently established front. The Chairman may as well have completely gotten rid of disloyal officers, but due to the revolutionary nature of the conflict, the loyalty of lower-ranking soldiers may be the hardest thing for Todorov to earn.
With this, the city of Lazurovo us now under republican control, as well as the city of Voivodets, in the province of Zimnitsa, which may very well become the main center of the revolution.