the last day or so has seen an extraordinary turn of events in russia. the russian president vladimir putin has survived an immediate threat to his power after the leader of the wagner mercenary group agreed to end his mutiny against the russian army. yevgeny prigozhin called off his wagner troops march to moscow late saturday night after negotiations with putin s ally and belarus leader alexander lukashenko. he also agreed to leave russia for belarus, and the kremlin has said it will not pursue punishment against him or wagnerfighters. but there are many questions unanswered about what s happened. to help unpack some of these i m joined now by a panel of experts. joining me live are vitaly shevchenko, who is from bbc monitoring, jade mcglynn is a researcher at the war studies department at king 5 college london. she s also the author of memory makers: the politics of the past in russia and russia 5 war. she joins us from oxfordshire. justin crump is a military veteran and
at this hour, president zelenskyy is in washington pushing for critical aid for his country s existential fight against russia. his visit capped off by a meeting at the white house with president biden. in a few minutes the two leaders will hold a press conference. we ll bring you that live when it happens. we begin with a stunning revelation by the special counsel jack smith in the federal election interference trial. for the first time, the special counsel s office says it has data from donald trump s cellphone, and they plan to show how trump used his phone in the days and weeks after the election, including on january 6th. in a court filing last night previewing expert testimony, the prosecutors plan to bring to the case, jack smith says he plans to call to the stand an expert who extracted and reviewed data from trump s phone and the phone of another individual who s currently unidentified. special counsel said the expert will, quote, testify that he or she analyzed da
are claiming victory. we have won this election, we are in the lead. we have been surprised by mr mnangagwa has been declared, you know, the leader, because he s not! in the uk, the metropolitan police is investigating a possible data breach after unauthorised access was gained to the systems of one of its suppliers. hello, i m luxmy gopal. authorities in russia have confirmed that the head of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgenny prigozhin, was killed in a plane that crashed north west of moscow on wednesday. they say that the identities of the bodies recovered correspond with the flight s passenger list, which named mr prigozhin. the mercenary leader had led an aborted mutiny against the russian military injune amid growing tension with commanders
that he organised two months ago with his wagner fighters. marina miron, post doctoral researcher in war studies at king s college, here in london and an expert on russian politics. she s currently in munich and when i spoke to her, i began by asking if what the kremlin was saying should be accepted without any questions. well, for the kremlin, it was important to wrap up this chapter about prigozhin being alive, and to end all potential conspiracy theories about prigozhin being alive, so they wanted to close this chapter and move on, specifically because it isn t clear what will happen to the wagner group and potentially there will be a new leader. as a matter of fact, putin has suggested a different commander in chief for wagner back injuly who used to be, according to reuters news agency, the defacto commander in chief of wagner, andrey troshev
and what effect do think that will have not only on their operations in africa, but also on the war in ukraine? wagner was a very effective force in that. for operations in africa, i think they are more endangered than the operations in ukraine, because wagner has been very active in africa, not only in the military capacity, but making sure russia can project its power there. i do think that dissolving wagner in africa would not be beneficial for the kremlin which is why i believe this commander in chief, troshev, might take charge of the operations. as far as ukraine is concerned, some of the fighters signed the contract with the ministry of defence, so will be incorporated into military structures meaning they might be going to ukraine again. and as far as the operations in ukraine are concerned, wagner has redeployed from ukraine