not only battle hardened fight he ers but also very serious criminals who were taken out to prison. and we saw a restaurant being attacked by a russian missile. do you think any of this is linked to what we saw in terms of insurgency? i think it is key to remember that wagner was instrumental in the land war that russia fought. any success largely could be notched up to wagner. but russia can still fight the air war. and they can do that without wagner. so this was adding to the very bleak list of mass casualty events for civilians in ukraine. nine people now killed including a 17-year-old girl, two twin 14-year-old sisters in the restaurant. and kramatorsk is only about an
right. two wars. a tale of two wars. one is the land war. here the ukrainians are making progress, slow but i think fairly surefooted and the recent events are going to sap russian morale. i think the ukrainians are going to pick up a good head of steam as the tanks come rolling in. hopefully we ll also add the long-range american cruise missiles, the atacms, to the mix. that land war is going in favor of the ukrainians. but you re exactly right. on the other side of the wars, the air war is going in favor of the russians. and putin still has a thousand combat aircraft that he hasn t fully committed to this fight. when he does that, it s going to require a significant response from the ukrainians. those f-16s can t get there soon enough. and you and i have been talking about f-16s, you can back and roll those tapes, six, eight,
over the last two weeks, getting more and more out of control. and finally, directly going after this most senior secretary minister of defense. the commander of the armed forces, russian armed forces. it s just astonishing. unconfirmed reports now are saying that some of the russian army units are not opposing him. and that the fsb may refused to arrest him. we will see. but this will be an enormous interest. not just the ukrainians, because it will obviously affect to the ground and air war in ukraine, but at the end of the day, we don t like, with u.s., the european union, nato, don t like a nuclear armed country involved in civil war. and prigozhin is not a step up from putin. he s just another gangster. okay, but maybe prigozhin has lost his mind. but haven t we ve been saying, since the start of this war, that putin has lost his? well, he was in a bubble.
and that the fsb may refused to arrest him. we will see. but this will be an enormous interest. not just the ukrainians, because it will obviously affect to the ground and air war in ukraine, but at the end of the day, we don t like, with u.s., the european union, nato, don t like a nuclear armed country involved in civil war. and prigozhin is not a step up from putin. he s just another gangster. okay, but maybe prigozhin