he recently described vladimir putin as a non entity and a cowardly waste of space. so, earliertoday, knock on the door, law enforcement officers arrive, come with us please , mr igor girkin was arrested on extremism charges. he was brought to court, he told thejudge he has heart problems and requested house arrest but in the end the judge remanded him in custody of police until 18 september. he faces up to five years in prison. a little bit more about him. in 2014, igor girkin was also known as igor strelkov, was a key figure in the fighting that erupted in ukraine s donbas region. that conflict was basically orchestrated and engineered by russia. his role there was to organise and to command pro russian militias.
say and other charges. he s been charged with a laundry list of minor offenses during his time behind bars. obviously all of that is almost entirely trumped up, i would imagine all of it s trumped up. what would an additional 20 years mean for him, if it s all layered on top of one another? does this mean he s essentially serving the rest of his life behind bars? well, the first thing i have to just point out is yeah, please. the fact that in contemporary russia you can take a murderous army, to ride this army to 150 miles of the kremlin, to murder in the process, in this crew that prigozhin organized a few weeks ago, and a few days after the coup, prigozhin is invited to have caviar and tea, while navalny is languishing in prison on extremism charges. if we were going to make another film, we might have to make a
he has been vocal in his criticism of how the russian authorities have been waging the war in ukraine. and, more recently, vocal in his criticism of the russian president. he recently described vladimir putin as a non entity and a cowardly waste of space. so, earliertoday, knock on the door, law enforcement officers arrive, come with us please , mr igor girkin was arrested on extremism charges. he was brought to court, he told thejudge he has heart problems and requested house arrest but in the end the judge remanded him in custody of police until the 18th of september. he faces up to five years in prison. a bit more about him. in 2014, igor girkin was also known as igor strelkov, was a key figure in the fighting that erupted in ukraine s donbas region. that conflict was basically orchestrated and engineered by russia. his role there was to organise and to command pro russian militias.
by the last name strelkov, is a russian nationalist and former military commander. he s publicly accused putin of not pursuing the war in ukraine harshly or effectively enough. our russia editor steve rosenberg has more. so let me paint a little the picture of igor girkin. he is a pro war nationalist, a former officer of the fsb, russia s domestic security service, who has become a prominent blogger. he has been vocal in his criticism of how the russian authorities have been war in ukraine. and, more recently, vocal in his criticism of the russian president. he recently described vladimir putin as it non entity vladimir putin as a non entity and a cowardly waste of space. so, earliertoday, knock on the door, law enforcement officers arrive, come with us please , mr igor girkin was arrested on extremism charges. he was brought to court, he told thejudge he has heart problems and requested house
south, towards that zaporizhzhia access. where ukraine seems to be extremely focused on an attempt to punch through russian defenses and potentially sever or disrupt that land bridge that connect the crimea to the rest of the russian occupied territories. but they are absolutely facing stiff resistance from moscow s forces. there are land mines, anti-tank equipment on the ground, more soldiers arriving according to ukrainian officials. this is going to be a major challenge of course. salma and nic, thank you both. a new trial has begun for alexei navalny. this time on so-called extremism charges which he and his supporters say are absurd and politically motivated. navalny appeared in court monday.