Fastsigns. Make your statement. The pentagon says it is concerned that north korea is weighing providing arms and Military Equipment to russia as it appears that kim jong un is on this armored train. As you see there, bound for russia to meet Vladimir Putin. South korean Government Official tells cnn that kim is believed to be traveling to the eastern russian city of vladivostok. The u. S. Says there have been alarming signs of a growing cooperation between the two countries. Russias Defense Minister visited pyongyang in july in an effort to buy Artillery Ammunition for the war in ukraine. U. S. Officials tell us there are major worries about what north korea could then ask for in return, and that pyongyang wants technical help, not just for its satellites but also nuclearpowered submarines. Cnn Senior International correspondent will ripley joins us now from taipei. Kremlin spokesman has just given some details on this trip. I wonder, what does the kremlin say . What does the u. S. Be
flying its own flag the wagner group says it s been central to russia s so called special military operation in ukraine. its moment of triumph came in may, when it said it captured the city of bakhmut in eastern ukraine after months of intense fighting with ukrainian forces. chanting the russian ministry of defence said wagner fighters must be absorbed into the army by the weekend, but it s not even clear if they re still on the front lines. wagner s record is farfrom clean. wagner has been accused of carrying out human rights abuses in a number of places in ukraine, including bucha, which has become a symbol of some of the worst atrocities of this war. but this isn t the only conflict where they ve been accused of targeting civilians. thousands of miles away, in the central african republic and mali, the un says they ve carried out summary executions and torture. wagner has worked in africa for almost a decade. it provides private security for presidents and fight insurgents.
on message. the presenter claims that russians had united to support vladimir putin, and denounced treachery. our enemies were in ecstasy during the mutiny , she said. the traitor evgeny prighozhin did a good job for western propaganda, she said. but at the newspaper kiosk i discovered a different reaction. in the dailies, it was less blamed the west and much more where is russia heading? and russian newspapers are really interesting on this today. even though the media landscape here is heavily controlled by the state some of the papers are saying things that kremlin isn t. for example, this paper says that with the mutiny russia has demonstrated its vulnerability to the whole world unto itself. and this paper calls what mr prighozhin has done an unprecedented challenge to vladimir putin and said it will have long term consequences for russia. events seemed to take the kremlin by
what do you think i mean that s the well i guess that is the explanation we would expect to come from the kremlin isn t. absolutely of course nothing will be admitted anyway but. that is as he said to be expected and although frankly speaking having a russian national at least a test of the russian possible detained by the german police is something that is quite serious and that makes sense quite a distinct fang from the events that happened over the killing of. alexander litvinenko in london in 2000 sake saw an attempt on the life of set against the pilots or the very last yet so there is a suspect and this suspect will be worked on by the german police by the german less tickets so there may be quite unpleasant surprises for russia in store but of course it s total denial and i m sure this investigation continues we ll see
sailors now in russian custody court least two months on charges of illegally crossing the border ukraine s position has always been and still is that the seas illegitimate on the boss of russia that ukraine has the right to pass the straits of coach and that russia has no position to decide who has access to the sea of us of you mentioned western pressure nick poroshenko says he requested a dialogue with putin didn t get a response and has turned to berlin for help what more can you tell us about that well quite extraordinary scenes as described by present go that cool that was rejected by the kremlin on the weekend we heard yesterday from the kremlin that they had rejected official offers of mediation from germany but it s clear that this is not going to be resolved at a bilateral level the sides just talking to each other what form that will take whether that be some kind of more formalized set up for now that seems kremlin