he s a leader of the wagner group, which are soldiers for hire, violent mercenaries with reputation for ruthless violence. they have fought for russia in ukraine and in conflicts across central africa in the middle east. saturday, prigozhin stage in our midst mutiny leading his mercenaries on a march that threatened to reach moscow coming within about 120 miles of the capitol. the crisis ended when prigozhin agreed to pull back his forces in a deal it allowed him to leave russia and avoid arrest. well rebellion appear to be aimed at ousting russia s military leaders, they dealt a massive brew blow to putin strongman image. we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go and when they get there but certainly we have also have new questions that putin is going to be addressing in the weeks and months ahead. this is a challenge coming from within to putin and that s where his focus has been. it s going to unfold over weeks and
Today the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee to start work on what comes next. We want a newcomer in forms, evidence based eu migration policy. Weve commissioned the mac to look into it, an independent group. The Home Secretary Set out a vague timetable, sort of, that there will be three phases. The first will end on the specified date, the day we leave the eu, probably march, 2019. Eu citizens who are already here, who have five years residency, will be able to apply for a settled status and those with fewer than five years residency will be allowed to stay to clock up those five years. Even the apparently simple thing about what to do with eu citizens here already, and to take the big one, the European Union wants its own court to have some jurisdiction over these people to insure that their rights are respected, something the government doesnt like at all. The second phase is a slightly woolly transition phase, where it seems that eu residents will be able to come
over the last year has become a friend of our. show igor, i always say good to see you, but it s always under such duress and stressed environments. we have been speaking since the beginning of this truly awful war. what was your reaction when you heard the news of this rebellion? well, my reaction my reactions a bit different from everyone else is, because my job is to know pretty much everything to do with the context. so i was not as excited as pretty much everyone else, because there are a couple nuances that people seem to be missing. first of all, prigozhin s revolt if successful would ve meant that it was prigozhin running things, and you know, he s not exactly a squeaky clean character. he was the guy that was a convict, and he is more ruthless than putin. and he is more of a populist. so he would ve called for more violence, and more
On today’s episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan discussed current events including Briytney Griner being sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison. 05.08.2022, Sputnik International
they have not pardoned the northern border and small interventions that the ukrainians can do now. they will line that long, long border with drones and with mines. there s a lot of low-cost things that they could be doing now and they re not doing it. and they re also not preparing the people. the job of a leader is to prepare people. i know that zelensky doesn t want war. no one wants war. in fact, the government here in ukraine has been saying that they have been preparing people and a lot of reserves who are ready to fight and a recent survey just last month and, excuse me, in december said that more than 50% of ukrainians are willing to pick up a gun and fight against a russian incursion. whether or not they would do so responding to a survey is quite different than picking up a gun and fighting in the street. hard to know if they ll do it, but all eyes are on german chancellor who is headed this week to kyiv and moscow.