flying overjapan and taiwan. a new development in the uk s most notorious racist murder the killing of stephen lawrence. the bbc is naming a suspect. and eltonjohn closes this year s glastonbury. he did it in a record breaking way. we have all the reaction. first, we start in russia after those extraordinary events over the weekend. in the last half hour or so, we have been told to expect statements from vladimir putin. that information coming from various news agencies, we will keep across that for you if and when he does speak, we will of course bring them to you. we have, however, already heard from the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prighozhin. in his statement, made in an audio message, he shed some light on what happened over the weekend. his aim, he says, wasn t to overthrow the government when he took mercenary soldiers up through russia. he does admit shooting down russian jets through russia. he does admit shooting down russianjets in retaliation, he claims, for
through russia. he does admit shooting down russianjets in retaliation, he claims, for air strikes against his soldiers. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports from moscow. after a weekend of high drama, there was no sense of victory in the russian capital. the mutiny had failed, but what next for president putin? and what with the russian authorities tell the russian people about what had happened? vladimir putin said nothing today about the mutiny. he was shown discussing engineers. it is not clear when this was recorded. but yevgeny prighozhin, head of the wagner mercenaries, who has not been seen in public since saturday, the talk today about his rebellion. in an audio message, he claimed his fighters had not wanted to overthrow russia s government. it had been a protest, he said, in a way of
only fraser s over the weekend was meting out punishment and betrayal. we know that the head of the wagner group spoke earlier saying that he turned his trips around but never intended to topple vladimir putin, never intended to topple the government, his targets were clear, it was the military leadership that he was unhappy with, he was unhappy with their decision making, and with their performance and with their supplies to the wagner group, and he said he had to make his point. he did admit shooting down some russian armed helicopters, but then we don t know where he is. we know that the audio message was released, but we don t have any video of yevgeny prighozhin. these are the statements that we are watching right now. it
puppet leader? i think we havejust lost you? puppet leader? i think we have ust lost ou? , , . lost you? there is very little that can be done lost you? there is very little that can be done now. lost you? there is very little that can be done now. russian - lost you? there is very little that can be done now. russian troops lost you? there is very little that - can be done now. russian troops are on the march, they have taken over the country. as you heard from the defence secretary, they are not actually pushing from the donbas region, they are coming in from the north and from the south. we need to ask ourselves what more can we do to support the ukrainian armed forces? they are asking for more weapon systems, like heavy weapon systems, counter cyber capabilities and particularly anti aircraft capabilities. a fantastic effort to bring down russianjets, see if that will boost morale. it is ownership of the air space that is critical for russia if they want to advance their infan