Russia plans to recruit 420,000 military contract personnel by the end of the year, likely exacerbating the country's labor shortage, the U.K. Defense Ministry said in its intelligence report on Sept. 11.
prosecution and also given everyone within wagner until this weekend a deadline to make a choice. go to belarus with prigozhin, sign a military contract or go home. so, by this weekend, prigozhin will know if his fighters stayed loyal to him or if they ve seen the writing on the wall and chosen the russian state. and if you re lukashenko, you re looking good right now because you ve been given the credit for having negotiated this deal. but suddenly you face the prospect of thousands of these absolute cut throats being sent off to your country. they become your responsibility. that s right. i wouldn t want to be in that position. or the country s neighboring them. i ll get yelled at, steve, real quick before we go, what are you watching in the next day or two or four ahead that we should key on? i a i agree with bobby. you have to see what will happen to the inner circle here. is anybody going to make a move? there s nothing but damage control going on. looking very bad to th
of the evidence. others talk about degree of confidence. i asked ratcliffe how much confidence do you have it came from a lab as opposed to a wet market? he said i have a high degree of confidence. the only step up from a high degree of confidence is certainty. then the important part, why? why has the biden administration showed a willingness to hide the truth? and as ratcliffe said there is enormous implications. what are they? first of all, why and how were they developing this in this lab? this lab had military contract, chinese military relationships in that lab. why and how were they doing that? what s our own culpability. how do we help create this as the united states of america. did our tax dollars go to funding this gain-of-function research? what do we do about it? if it did come from a lab, what
terms of death and destruction. people i ve been speaking to here, including a member of ukrainian intelligence said one clue is who s been doing the fighting. the bulk of this if not all of it on the russian side is done by a private military contract,er, a private army, a private oligarch. and some of these soldier, his private army, who many were recruited from prison with the promise of pardons. he s been leading these men to slaughter. they call them here in ukraine meat waves the style of fighting where he throws men at the oncoming troops. it looks as though he s trying to use bakhmut to ascend the ranks of the kremlin himself over the corpses of his own men. matt bradley, vivid reporting, thank you.