that the regime can be swept aside without a lot of bloodshed or civil war. mr khodorkovsky, thank you very much for talking to newsnight. thank you. thank you, thank you. bye bye. what now for the brutal mercenaries, the wagner group, which is a money making outfit still operating in syria and parts of africa? and what now for its leader, former hotdog seller yevgeny prigozhin? today, he said in an ii minute audio message on telegram that he hadn t wanted to overthrow president putin. here s our international editor, nawal al maghafi. in the ten years since its founding, the wagner group has evolved from a small guns for hire operation into a sprawling network that has been proven to be active in at least four continents. once one of the most secretive organisations in russia, it s emerged from the shadows and into the spotlight as an incredibly powerful force in ukraine. so powerful, some would say,
has said that china, if you really are neutral, we would like some meetings too. but me the excellent ski would dearly love to sit down with xijingping. 0ne ski would dearly love to sit down with xijingping. one other thing i should add, the chinese foreign ministry was asked about this report that a chinese drone company is preparing to supply drones to russia, the foreign ministry spokesperson here said it did not know about this report, these allegations regarding the drones, but that there was a fair bit of misinformation moving around in terms of china and its involvement in the war in ukraine. that was stephen mcdonell from beijing. i m joined now from kyiv by our international editor, jeremy bowen. hello, jeremy. this must be a time of great reflection for you watching events over the past year? indeed, i have spent
the polish president, andzej duda, speaking, says the strikes may have been a one off incident and won t happen again. nevertheless, he said poland will likely trigger article 4 of the nato agreement. all of this comes as russian forces launched waves of missile strikes across a wide area of ukraine, targeting power stations, in one of the biggest co ordinated attacks by the russians since the start of the conflict. ukraine s public broadcaster reported that the strikes had targeted kyiv and the wider region, as well as kharkiv, poltava, mykolaiv, dnipro, lviv, cherkassy, 0desa and chernihiv. the strikes follow russia s retreat from kherson and the west bank of the dnipro river last week. in a moment, we ll be hearing from our correspondent in russia, plus we ll hear how this is playing out at the 620 summit here in bali. we start with this report by our international editor, jeremy bowen, who s in 0desa in southern ukraine. in the hours after the missiles hit, it wasn t clear whether