as putin s plans for a quick victory faded, prigozhin s forces undertook some of the heaviest fighting. some of them came from prisons. here s prigozhin recruiting them in return for an early release. laying flowers on the graves of those who died helped him cultivate an image in russia as a nationalist hero, one who would fight harder in ukraine. but battles like the one in bakhmut have led to growing tension between prigozhin and the regular russian military leadership. he angrily accused its leaders, like the defence minister shoigu and military chief gerasimov, of using his men as cannon fodder and denying them vital supplies. prigozhin claimed russia s soldiers had been let down by their leaders and his attacks on them became increasingly outspoken. it was clear one side or other would have to move, bringing what had been a simmering crisis to the boil.
like defence minister shoigu and military chief gerasimov, of using his men as cannon fodder and denying them vital supplies. prigozhin claimed russia s soldiers had been let down by their leaders, and his attacks on them became increasingly outspoken. it was clear one side or other would have to move, bringing what had been a simmering crisis to the boil. in the last hour, i spoke about about the conflict in russia with william taylor, former us ambassador to ukraine. is putin still in trouble? he is certainly diminished he is certainly diminished. both sides, both putin and prigozhin, made statements that indicated that they were up for a fight. you ve reported both of those. putin said this is treason and he s going to crush them,
as putin s plans for a quick victory faded, prigozhin s forces undertook some of the heaviest fighting. some of them came from prisons. here is prigozhin recruiting them in return for an early release. laying flowers on the graves of those who died helped him cultivate an image in russia as a nationalist hero, one who would fight harder in ukraine. but battles like in bakhmut led to growing tension between prigozhin and the regular russian military leadership. he angrily accused its leaders, like defence minister shoigu and military chief gerasimov, of using his men as cannon fodder and denying them vital supplies. prigozhin claimed russia s soldiers had been let down by their leaders, and his attacks on them became increasingly outspoken.
days to come? i administration be looking for in the days to come? days to come? i think we will certainly days to come? i think we will certainly be days to come? i think we will certainly be watching - days to come? i think we will certainly be watching closely| days to come? i think we will. certainly be watching closely as days to come? i think we will- certainly be watching closely as the reports we have seen indicate, and it is not clear that any particular action is needed on the us part. there has been a lot of kerfuffle up and down the m4 highway in russia, but not a whole lot that might be actionable in terms of policy changes from the us side. if you look at the conflict between prigozhin and shoigu and gerasimov, they are really arguing over the most expedient way to destroy ukraine and kill ukrainians. in that sense, i don t think the imperatives in moscow or washington have changed. they need to step up even more support for ukraine having seen these events in moscow
dissent, orany president who does not tolerate any dissent, or any opposition. the very fact that a man who had been very close to president putin, remember the rise and rise of mr prigozhin, who started off as a hot dog seller, who started off as a hot dog seller, who rose to become a caterer to the kremlin, with very lucrative contract catering to president putin and his cronies who grew very powerful, and went on to command this private army. it has been said that when he criticised the russian military leadership, including the defence minister general shoigu and general gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, general gerasimov, the chief of the generalstaff, he general gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, he was doing it with tacit approvalfrom president general staff, he was doing it with tacit approval from president putin. he had been very careful not to criticise the russian president directly. we saw today for the first time that he did criticise him in public, and o