prigozhin of course has made significant way since the beginning as he started as prior of some services to the kremlin many years ago, providing services that the state did not want to be implicated, some military adventures in africa or sy syria, or meddling in different elections. and then last fall he suddenly started something that is very similar to conducting full-scale pre-election with troops in the region and foreign policy issues, exposing this mood and the search for who to blame for the failures in the war and for
i saw them at the beginning where they were going to places like syria and their forces back then were pretty much doing base protection for the russian military that was on the ground in syria. but from there, things really did evolve. they started getting involved in the oil business in syria and then things like gold and diamonds in african countries. but it wasn t really until the war in ukraine that wagner turned into pretty much a full-on army with really heavy weapons. if you look at the battle in bakhmut for instance, some of the firepower unleashed there by the artillery, by the tanks that wagner had in its possession, that certainly seemed to be a very professional army and now prigozhin sealed to be at the he seemed to be at the height of the power but it appears he s gone one step too far. earlier kim brunhuber spoke
suspended operations because of security concerns, not against them, but clashes against various different groups being a concern that might happen. the desperation will grow as our attention around the world possibly moves somewhere else, fred. nick paton walsh, thanks so much for that. today a california-based o organization direct relief sending medical and humanitarian aid to turkey and syria. mike, tell us more about this effort. reporter: sure, fred. the name of the game is to get 17 tons of supplies out of this 3 1/2 acre warehouse on a direct flight from lax down the 101/405 freeway all the way to istanbul, a 13-hour flight. let s give you a tour to show you all these pallets are bound
for turkey. those exclusively white pallets are bound for syria. they re going to go from los angeles to istanbul, cross the border and get to syria by the middle of the next week. if we walk over here, we re going to show you in terms of what s in these boxes, we have these sturdy backpacks meant for first responders. we have bandages, a makeshift tour tourniquet, water purification tablets. take a listen to what we heard about the two main types of supplies bound for turkey and sy syria. it s a combination of two things. the first set of supplies are to address really the acute emergency, so crush wounds, more critical care items, iv fluids,