but he said he had 25,000 wagner fighters who were ready to get rid of evil, he said, in the russian military leadership. so it was clear last night that he was laying down the gauntlet and this challenge, to try to remove the russian military leadership. and then waking up this morning, the reports that wagner fighters had crossed overfrom ukraine back into russia, that they had entered rostov. the reports this morning that wagner is now in control of military sites in rostov, including the airfield, including, it seems, from another video, the major regional military headquarters in rostov. there was this extraordinary video that we saw this morning, again, posted on social media, showing yevgeny prigozhin sitting between two very senior russian military commanders, including a deputy defence minister, arguing with them, basically
thought, that perhaps this was a ploy to give vladimir putin a way out of this war which has not gone to plan, to make the russian military leadership the fall guys here for russian military failure and then yes even, even more astonishment as mr prigozhin claimed that the russian military, his own side, had launched a missile attack on a wagner base camp, killing he said lots of people, although he provided no evidence of that, and then announcing that wagner had taken the decision to start a march ofjustice, he said it was, military coup, but he said he had 25,000 wagner fighters who are ready to get rid of evil he said in the russian military leadership, so it was clear last night that he was laying down the gauntlet and this challenge to try to remove the russian military leadership. and then waking up this morning, the reports that wagner fighters had crossed overfrom ukraine back
this is the first time that they are going to get something hot to eat and drink, warm up, reassess what it is they will do next. because these people have literally just crossed the border and they are now in poland. tired, bewildered, and just exhausted with their trip so far. poland has created a huge infrastructure to help these people. because of course poland has taken in the highest number of people coming overfrom ukraine. if you think about it, 1 million people displaced, leaving ukraine, in the space ofjust over a week. it s a staggering number of people. ukraine nationals and nonnationals as well, because of the diverse community within ukraine, the workers there, the student community. poland saying everybody is welcome, everybody can come here and seek safety.
ago, he was here, he went inside this enormous warehouse to see for himself how the people that have just crossed over from himself how the people that have just crossed overfrom ukraine, how they are. we are seeing just this overwhelmingly emotional scene, the children are exhausted. predominantly mothers of course because the men had to stay and fight. ukrainian nationals have to stay and fight. exhaustion and bewilderment. anthony blinken was here. he said about his visit that it was one of the most urgent moments in the long history between our two countries. and the us secretary of state added that the deployment of us soldiers to poland would continue. and he came here to see for himself what these people have been experiencing. this is the first part of their gnowjourney in poland and the next step is what do they do next? because such a huge
enormous warehouse and seen for himself the number of people crossed over from himself the number of people crossed overfrom ukraine, how they himself the number of people crossed over from ukraine, how they are because we have seen this overwhelmingly emotional scene, the children are exhausted. predominately mums because the men have to state and fight. exhaustion and just a real overwhelming tiredness. he said about his visit is that it was one of the most urgent moments in the long history between our two countries in the us secretary of state saying that the deployment of us soldiers would continue. he came here to see for himself what these people have been experiencing. this is the first part of their journey experiencing. this is the first part of theirjourney in poland and the next steps, what did they do next.