over the past 16 months since the invasion of ukraine, the ultimate question, of course, being where does this leave the war in ukraine? does russia s military rivet internally begin to collapse or are we going to see this episode short-lived, and a bid by putin to try to salvage some sense of control, but, really, the way his regime functioned just 24 hours ago, unlikely to ever return. wolf? so just to given us some perspective, nick, i know you ve covered all these events very dramatically over the past several years, just some perspective, have we seen actual battles unfolding, hand to hand-contact between the wagner group and the russian military? we ve anticipated that unfolding soon, if it hasn t started yet. we don t know if that is the stage. the fact that the governor talks about, quote, combat measures by the military would suggest they
on moscow. perhaps in the previous hours, yevgeny prigozhin may have convinced them he could take over and leave putin to adjudicate who he d like to stay the winner. putin had remained silent, but what we heard in the past hours makes no mistake here, yevgeny prigozhin is now a wanted man as well as thousands of fighters seasoned in battle across ukraine. they ee now targets of the russian military. what level of response will we see from the russian military is unclear. it s obvious at this stage some kind of clashes have begun. it seems and certainly the governor of the area has said that combat measures have indeed begun from the russian military side. but the big question really, wolf, in all of this, outside of the future of who is in charge of a nuclear power that s been, frankly, torn down militarily
wagner military convoy that appears to be trying to move towards moscow, at least now it says it is the ambition, may be threatening to continue move, the area, where we ve seen the wagner military forces have at least moved into, or moved through, the governor is telling people to stay indoors, to stay calm. that may simply just be a bid to ensure their safety, but this is yet another stop on the highway from rostov-on-don, the military hub, that wagner seems to have calmly walked into last night and another stop on the highway to moscow. absurd that i m reporting this, the notion of an armed insurrection inside russia that has calmly got its sites set on the capital. we heard from the key town halfway up to the capital, the combat measures have begun by the russian military and the video suggesting damage to an
a key important one, captured according to the wagner chief without firing a shot. and some of the video shows a very relaxed situation, him talking to military commanders there, based there, and one in fact seen on the internet, on television, the day before, urging people not to go along with this insurrection, and he was later pictured with prigozhin, the wagner chief, and another commander, talking, prigozhin at one point admonishing one of the commanders for using the informal you singular, lack of respect there. and extraordinary scenes in rostov that continues on the highway up to moscow. the town of voronezh, the governor of that region has said there has been combat measures by the russian military, there has been a report in state media of mi-8 attack helicopter taken down in that particular area. further up the road towards moscow, indeed, the government has told people to stay at home