believed. is if the reporting is to be believed. ., ., ., ., . believed. dramatic situation. we have a development believed. dramatic situation. we have a development on - believed. dramatic situation. we have a development on what i believed. dramatic situation. we have a development on what we | believed. dramatic situation. we i have a development on what we been reporting. that is prigozhin has put out an order message and has said to avoid bloodshed we are returning our convoys to basis. prigozhin himself has confirmed this news that came out of belarus that the leader has broken some deal between vladimir putin and yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the wagner mysteries. prigozhin has confirmed in an audio message and i said we are returning our convoys. i will keep you there because i have my colleague here who s been listening to the audio message. you vejust who s been listening to the audio message. you ve just been listening to it on your phone. tell us about what you ve he
command of the southern military district which is in charge of the war in ukraine. there must be confusion there. something to be exploited. confusion there. something to be exloited. ., , ., ., ., ., exploited. confusion and also a distraction exploited. confusion and also a distraction because exploited. confusion and also a distraction because of- exploited. confusion and also a distraction because of course . exploited. confusion and also a distraction because of course if| distraction because of course if prigozhin is cis saying, we don t know, the speculation in terms of the number of wagner forces who are with mr prigozhin at this stage, but it is, if russia is going to want to push that is going to have to look at how many troops it has in ukraine and perhaps take troops from there. there are some reports to that effect already but we don t how reliable they are. russia has committed, it looks like, everything it has got to ukraine. but it is an extraordinary act of braver
say that that is one nil to president putin and that however that conversation went, the net result is that prigozhin is backing down. i would result is that prigozhin is backing down. iwould not result is that prigozhin is backing down. i would not want to put a lot of money on his political future right now but the fact is he probably expected people to rise up and join him, that did probably expected people to rise up andjoin him, that did not probably expected people to rise up and join him, that did not happen. i very much doubt he had the full 25,000 troops that he talked about at his disposal. wagner has those trips but they are scattered around different locations and the fsb state security services not with this man, it is with president putin. so prigozhin was heavily outnumbered, overreached himself, there will now be some negotiation but remember there is an arrest warrant for him, it is a tricky one because the wagner group has been useful to the kremlin. president
agency. let s bring injohn simpson. an extraordinary day, and now we are getting this latest bit of news from yevgeny prigozhin who says we were 200 kilometres away from moscow and had decided to go back to our base camps to prevent any bloodshed. it is the most remarkable psychodrama, and it is going on in the heads of two people, possibly three if you include the belarus presidents. i think essentially we are talking about what is going in prigozhin s heads. this started because of his extraordinary emotions, spending day after day, night after night on the front seeing his own men, the wagner
to be about the worst case nightmare that vladimir putin or prigozhin could face. why would he want to take his chances defeating the russian military in the heart of russian military in the heart of russia when russia still has air power, nuclearweapons? most of russia when russia still has air power, nuclear weapons? most of the loyalty as wealth. i can sympathise with what he is thinking in that he realises putin has dragged his country into it, but prigozhin was part of the problem, the idea he will poll a rabbit out of the hat is just a dream. the only question is, what terms is he being offered? what assurance does he have the terms will be honoured? and what prospects does he have for staying alive, not politically but personally as wealth. these are the real question is if the reporting is to be