emergency security measures had been imposed around the russian capital amid fears the convoy could reach the city earlier vladimir putin said russia was facing a battle for its future calling the rebellion an armed mutiny . hello i m matthew amroliwala welcome to our continuing coverage of the unrest in russia. we start with that dramatic breaking news, in an extraordiantry day in russia. the leader of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, has ordered his mercenaries, to turn around and return to their bases, to avoid bloodshed. a huge convoy had been heading towards moscow in what vladimir putin had described, as an attempted mutiny. progoshin said his troops had advanced 200 kilmotres towards the capital in the last 24 hours. in his nightly address,
that russia had no choice but to invade ukraine because ukraine backed by nato was going to be a threat to russia. he said that is not true, this invasion was started in order to promote sergei shoigu to a marshal and enrich the pockets of the oligarchs, his words. not everybody watches the wagner telegram channel, they tend to watch the television instead. putin enjoyed a large degree of support but nevertheless the genie is out of the bottle and somebody who has fought for russia in the donbas and scored them their only real victory in the last eight months is saying these things. will he be forced to retract him? will he be put on television to say it has a terrible mistake i do not know. the next 24 will be interesting. for this mutiny the scene appears to be taken out of it. ., ,. ., ., ,
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
other, his former patron, vladimir putin. this is him here giving his address earlier today. he is very angry, he has a controlled anger going on because in a way he has created a kind of frankenstein s monster. the wagner group has been useful to putin and he deployed them in africa and libya, in mali and syria, and of course in ukraine since 2014. they have been a useful tool for the kremlin to essentially do denial below operations. that now means that it is kind of embarrassing for president putin, almost as if he was the owner of a rottweiler that has turned around and bitten him. in the meantime on the ground various things going on, we have footage trying to verify, we can show you one bit when a helicopter flies can show you one bit when a helicopterflies inside can show you one bit when a helicopter flies inside russia can show you one bit when a helicopterflies inside russia but before that we are seeing a convoy of wagner equipment, that is a
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