russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin cause of his rebellion after 24 hours of mayhem. roadblocks to stop his wagner forces are filled in as the crisis is a diffused. after a direct threat to his leadership, the questions over vladimir putin s future. forces in ukraine assess how the turmoil will affect the progress of the war. also this morning, the public tolls they can now call 999 after a technical default. labor calls for mandatory help for homeowners struggling to meet rising mortgage payments. good morning, the rebellion by the russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin appears to be over. the russian president, vladimir putin called it a knife in the back of our people, and said his forces were but a deal has now been negotiated by belarus and the kremlin, so that the rebel leader will be allowed to leave the country, and his fighters will not be prosecuted. our moscow correspondent diane mcenany reports. yevgeny prigozhin, cheered by supporters after bringin
truth to it? i think it s a strong tradition in russia of using doubles. lenin did, stalin certainly did. so i would not be at all surprised if putin was using a double, particularly if he is not well, which is what we understand to be the case. i think last week there was a strange incident in moscow, where putin appeared, chairing a security council meeting, at the same time as putin appearing, supposedly live, laying a wreath somewhere. i think there s a lot of speculation now as to whether he is using a double. or we can defy the space time continuum? i think even putin could not manage that. but certainly, i think some of these things are serious points, and will create a degree of distrust and uncertainty within the leadership, along those lines. interesting. and filip, in terms of what it means for what is happening in ukraine, the ukrainians, talking to dominic over there, they are disappointed, thinking this might be the end of the putin regime, and therefore the
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would not have done it on his own initiative. all, right diana magnay for us there in moscow. we can now cross over to our international affairs editor, dominic ryan corn in the ukrainian city of dnipro. good morning to you, dominic. president putin will certainly, in the very short term have had his eye taken off of the ball with what he was trying to achieve in ukraine. in medium term, possibly he will be distracted by threats to his leadership. what does this mean for what is happening in ukraine, and how our ukrainian forces potentially taking advantage of it? well i think for now what it means for most ukrainians is just a sense of disappointment, it s what is said to us. we are very sorry, we have had hope, and the hope was that they would see russians fighting in killing each other, we are often told here that the only good russian is a dead russian, and by now they hoped they would have seen a lot more directions now. if that seemed bloodthirsty,
imagine your country being violated, rampaged, invaded by a force that rapes, lutz, murders, kidnaps and massacres and attacks civilian targets almost constantly. so they are disappointed. this seems to have fizzled out. i think there was a sense of agreement with mini timmaraju analysts, propagandists in the west that putin has been weakened by this. the law of the jungle in russia, and he has shown weakness and therefore they hope that his opponents will smell blood. i think maybe they might be surprised as anyone else, it seems to be easy to now take an army that close to moscow, in less than one day. i think the overriding question for ukrainians is probably this, if putin was able to outfox they warlord leading a band of battle hardened mercenaries, what else could possibly bring him down? he has survived the greatest threat yet, the question is very important to ukrainians, because as long as he remains in the kremlin, this war goes