if it is indeed confirmed, how does ukraine act on this information? i does ukraine act on this information? does ukraine act on this information? ~ ~ ., information? i think ukraine has nothing information? i think ukraine has nothing really information? i think ukraine has nothing really to - information? i think ukraine has nothing really to say - information? i think ukraine i has nothing really to say about prigozhin. what ukraine does have a lot to say about this when and where they mount their main attack. the one part of that might be determined by a weakness, a distraction on the part of the russians that are concerned about who is loyal to putin and who was not. we are just today, the same day prigozhin was apparently killed by russian forces, they also demoted one of the genitals associated with prigozhin. all today the russian military chain of command is inward looking and worried about who is loyal and who was not. putin is loyal and who was not. putin is worried abo
by bringing them into nato and the tearing any further aggression in europe. what do did the applications aggression in europe. what do did the applications might - aggression in europe. what do did the applications might be l did the applications might be for wagner group fighters who have also been of course on the battlefield in ukraine? battlefield in ukraine? yes, i think there battlefield in ukraine? yes, i think there is battlefield in ukraine? yes, i think there is a battlefield in ukraine? yes, i think there is a different - think there is a different strategy here for the wagner group. what russia would like to do is reconstitute the wagner group into something else that is under kremlin control but is still operating independently as a military contractor outside of russia, so that they can do the kinds of things the russian military wants to deny. so there is a goal of the kremlin to preserve and external contracting military force that they can actually control wh
think this means for the war in ukraine? :, ~ :, :, think this means for the war in ukraine? ~ :, :, ., , ukraine? we don t know how many of those wagner of those wagner fighters are still in ukraine. to the extent that they might be deployed in and around ukraine. again, we don t know where their loyalties lay. certainly those who went with prigozhin towards my scalp seemed to vote with their feet. my scalp seemed to vote with theirfeet. even those my scalp seemed to vote with their feet. even those who did not, we don t know how they view this particular incident. at the end of the day, mr prigozhin paid them a lot of money, employed them for a long time, formed relationships. we have to see how they do this and whether any action is taken as a consequence of what has happened today. compliment, really good happened today. compliment, really good to happened today. compliment, really good to get happened today. compliment, really good to get insights i happened today. compl
sooner. we don t know what exactly caused that crash, russian media are saying investigators are looking into a number of different possibilities, including what they are calling external actions. and earlier on wednesday, us president biden echoed that sentiment. i don t know for a fact what happened but i am not surprised. there is not much that happens in russia that putin is not behind. i do not know enough to have an answer. bill taylor is the vice president of russia and europe at the us institute of peace and former ambassador to ukraine. president biden says not much happens in russia that vladimir putin is not behind for that looking at this news, do you agree? looking at this news, do you auree? ~ , ,., , , looking at this news, do you auree? ~ , ,., agree? absolutely. it is almost certain that agree? absolutely. it is almost certain that if agree? absolutely. it is almost certain that if prigozhin - agree? absolutely. it is almost certain that if prigozhin is - certain t
of that time, he s said a group of patriots was born , which later acquired the name wagner battalion. and soon the wagner group reached far beyond ukraine. the fbi accused prigozhin of interfering in the 2016 us election. in syria, wagner fighters supported pro government forces. more recently there are multiple reports of wagner s military and commercial activity in africa. with the eu accusing the group of committing. torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings. and then came the war. when putin wanted to give his invasion of ukraine impetus, prigozhin and his fighters were called in. but as wagner s death toll grew, so did prigozhin s fury. expressed first in video rants. and then in a short lived mutiny. in the aftermath, putin condemned the the mutineers and traitors. but for prigozhin, charges were dropped, no arrest followed. and we asked, why wasn t putin punishing prigozhin?