groups coming across from ukraine into russia and now an armed rebellion, armed mercenaries making their way to moscow, demanding the removal of the defence minister, which vladimir putin appointed. has it made russian lives safer? we don t see greater security, we see greater insecurity over the last few months. that s a problem for the kremlin. ., ., , , ., kremlin. you give a sense of the resilience kremlin. you give a sense of the resilience of kremlin. you give a sense of the resilience of muscovites - kremlin. you give a sense of the resilience of muscovites in - kremlin. you give a sense of the resilience of muscovites in the l resilience of muscovites in the russian people saying we have survived things like this and will survived things like this and will survive whatever comes now, but are they having a moment of reflection and powers thinking how did we get here? i and powers thinking how did we get here? ~ , ., , ., here? i think it is too early to tell. public here? i
in russia s defences. russia has three successive layers of defence of trenches and tank traps and minefields. interlocking arcs of fire, waiting to hit ukraine s new challenger tanks that are going to be trying to drive south. those defences are still in place. a fair degree of bewilderment among the russian forces probably thinking what a net is going on back home? some will be wondering is this really what i want to lay my life down for when the wagner group we looked up to, they looked up to and respected seemed to have mutinied against the russian state and been called traitors. if putin is smart, he will be able to move on quickly from this and quite possibly send wagner back into the battlefield. we wait to see any sort of clue as to
institutions, this apparatus putin created, a level of infighting. do you think it didn t come out of strength but out of some decay? decay is a good word because it may convey a sense of process over time. putin is under appreciated in the west in what he did to get russia s pride back, in the first decade of the 21st century. we underestimate how they can still be grateful for what he did for their country. all that has been gradually slipping away in the second phase as his bitterness at the west, his anger, may be other things with his psychology that we don t understand. but just as psychology that we don t understand. butjust as pure hatred of his opponents, mostly abroad, but at home. they have intensified, leading to the great mistake which was very 24 last year. if you were reporting
last year it was only a matter of time, you were reflecting the wisdom of the cia. a lot of people agreed with it, and putin had some basis for thinking maybe his military was more capable than it turned out to be. it turns out to be his great mistake, and everything has intensified since it in terms of the decay of the russian economy and state. however, let s not get too carried away with the news. until today, russia was a country that despite the losses was still politically unified, were still holding together economically and was still tolerating this would be dictator. putin had managed to marginalise his opponents. the questionnaires, will they continue to do so when, as you say, all of those things until today existed, but no doubt this has rattled some
like to believe it, because we have been telling ourselves putin may have brought russia to the brink of collapse, but opinion polls don t show it. ijust don t see how prigozhin worked himself up into the state, except through an emotional reaction to what he saw to his own troops. irate reaction to what he saw to his own troo s. ~ . , reaction to what he saw to his own troo s. ~ ., , ., reaction to what he saw to his own troo s. . ., , ., ., ., troops. we have seen that emotion over the last troops. we have seen that emotion over the last few troops. we have seen that emotion over the last few weeks troops. we have seen that emotion over the last few weeks with i troops. we have seen that emotion over the last few weeks with these | over the last few weeks with these videos, these outbursts where he would use a vulgar language to attack the defence minister, to attack the defence minister, to attack the defence minister, to attack the head of the armed forces, to sort of say the