from the kremlin. on the road to the capital, wagner mercenary forces seize military headquarters in two, cities prompting an angry response. this is treason in the face of those who are fighting on the front. this is a step in the back of our troops, and the people of russia. wagner s leader and its forces are cheered as they withdraw from rostov. you have ghani prigozhin, the man dubbed putin s pitbull will now move to belarus with repercussions in russia s military offensive in ukraine. also this morning the prime minister is criticize for reportedly planning to block pay rises for public sector workers next year. plus, how glastonbury went from, grime to glam. hello, good morning. the russian president vladimir putin has faced the most serious threat yet to his leadership, the mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin whose forces have fought for the kremlin in key battles joined the war in ukraine, seized control of the russian city acting as the merchant for the invasion,
have training some of them are but training. what could they have really done? with the putin on the brink quite a good headline. rush on the brink to. on the brink of what? i think we need to turn the ukraine. and ukrainians in the middle of a very fairly difficult summer offensive chirac big gains. territory clawed back from russia and russia but one of the names of the offensive is destruction, is really to upset the russians and extraordinary thing happened behind the scenes, in the leadership, in that as a colic. i m surprised it really hasn t come up too strongly in the here. much lee for a psychological war the cranes haven t done too brightly over the past weekend, in fact, because the upset, the
equilibrium in moscow. and i think this is the big consequence, putin is a survivor. he s a hard man. but the very to watch how he recovers from. this he is out of touch ever since he gave in to the absolute that he had about covid. zelenskyy has gone on record as saying that actually frightened amidst chaos russia. the sunday times there, suggesting that putin has been humiliated. would you agree that that is a fair description, christina? absolutely. and i think zelenskyy messaging and communication and truly russia and putin on that front. he is absolutely right that putin looks weak and