the gunman was carrying a handgun and an ar 15 style rifle while wearing a mask and tactical vest. the sheriff says it s believed the shooter acted alone with no evidence that he was part of a wider group. the shooter had authored several manifestos, one to his parents, one to the media and one to federal agents. portions of these manifestos detailed the shooter s disgusting ideology of hate. plainly put, this shooting was racially motivated, and he hated black people. this is a dark day injacksonville s history. any loss of life is tragic, but the hate that motivated the shooter s killing spree adds an additional layer of heartbreak. there is no place for hate in our community, and this is not jacksonville. ben ryan is a reporter at the scene with a local tv station in jacksonville. he gave me the latest. it s a heartbreaking, heavy and sad day here in jacksonville. the jacksonville sheriff, tk waters, confirmed that three people
well, not yet. the gru would not be a good leadership model there, so i think it would have to be the russian military. it would have to be one of their leaders. they perform poorly. the few leaders that have performed well have recently been arrested because they took a compliant approach or were perceived to take a compliant approach during prigozhin s mutiny two months ago, so my suspicion is that the troops in belarus will not go back into ukraine in a meaningful way any time soon. so this is a battlefield loss for the russians over time, but it was probably inevitable after prigozhin s mutiny. you know, we only have to think back to that mutiny, as you were just mentioning, to see that quite clearly there was that disquiet within the ranks of wagner. is there any potential, do you think, for a situation in which someone from within the group, from within wagner itself, perhaps a high ranking mercenary, tries to take control in opposition
is there any potential, do you think, for a situation in which someone from within the group, from within wagner itself, perhaps a high ranking mercenary, tries to take control in opposition to the kremlin here? well, i ll take out a short term life insurance policy on anyone who does that. i mean, i think wejust saw how putin treats people who lead mutinies or who lead mutinous troops. i suspect if someone takes over those troops, it will be an fealty to putin and to eventually rejoin the fight in ukraine over some period of time. putin has been very careful with them. i d also remind, almost two months ago, right after the mutiny, he immediately collapsed the internet research agencies, the troll farms, the disinformation ops anything he saw as a direct threat to him at the time, he thought, so he got rid of it. he obviously waited a few months on prigozhin, but he eventually got his revenge on prigozhin. so i don t see anyone leading
rifle, while wearing a mask and tactical vest. the sheriff says it is believed the shooter acted alone, with no evidence he was part of a wider group. the shooter had authored several manifestos, one to his parents, one to the media and one to federal agents. portions of these manifestos detailed the shooter s disgusting ideology of hate. plainly put, this shooting was racially motivated, and he hated black people. this is a dark day in jacksonville s history. any loss of life is tragic, but the hate that motivated the shooter s killing spree adds an additional layer of heartbreak. there is no place for hate in our community, and this is not jacksonville. ben ryan is a reporter at the scene with a local tv station injacksonville. he gave me the latest.
a direct effort against putin, but i do think someone could emerge to try to lead the wagner troops within a russian military context. the problem there is the money. theyjust will not get the kind of compensation from the russian general staff that they were from prigozhin. yes, and so i m interested we ve also got this development with the rusich group, who were sub unit of wagner, and they have also said that they will no longer fight in ukraine. what do you think that tells us, and what does all of this mean essentially for russia on the battlefield in ukraine? so this is a loss for them. and prigozhin was this intense mix of he was aggressive, he was a risk taker, he looked for short term gains, he was wealthy. he was all the things the russian military isn t, and he really provided a spark to their fighting. it s good that he s off the battlefield, it s good for the ukrainians.