there s increased security in moscow with what s being called anti terror measures the m4 motorway which links the russian capital with cities in south, such as rostov ,is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. the kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. here s mr putin s television address to the russian nation. translation: any actions that split us is a betrayal of your people, - a betrayal of the comrades that are fighting on the front line, a knife in the back of our people. this struck russia in 1917, when russia was waging the first world war, victory was stolen from us. politicking behind the back of the army and the people turned into huge upheaval, the destruction of the army and the state. the loss of huge territories. as a result, it was tragedy, russian killing russians, c
talking about the events in russia. how do you think you have response to this and utilises this disunity within russia to potentially make progress in its counteroffensive? when you consider that possibly one in four russian front line fighters are from a wagner or have been and that the only claimable success in the war in the last year has been achieved by wagner forces the war in the last year has been achieved by wagnerforces in bakhmut, clearly there is a risk between fighting breaking out between fighting breaking out between russian troops and wagner troops both inside ukraine and russia. this is a massive boost for the ukrainian counteroffensive and morale and we can see some very dramatic of elements i think in the next week or so. we could see some. next week or so. we could see some. ., ~ next week or so. we could see some. . ~ ,, next week or so. we could see some. . ~ i: ,., next week or so. we could see some. . ~ i: . next week or so. we could see some. . ~
don. this is the key city that we are focusing on at the moment today, that wagner forces have been progressing on to. we can see heavily armed soldiers, armoured personnel carriers, some vehicles are still on the streets, people going about their business, but obviously a very different site in the city. these forces that were crucial in the fight against ukrainian military forces in and around bakhmut. ukrainian military forces in and around bakhmut. this video was shared earlier today on the telegram account of a company linked to the chief of the russian mercenary group wagner yevgeny prigozhin. in it, he denies moscow s claims that wagner s work hs caused things that wagner s work has caused things to crumble on the frontline. the main commanding centre is functioning as normal, without any problems at all, not one officer has been pried away from their work, so when they tell you that the private military company
internal security army, they neither resisted wagner, nor have they joined wagner. everyone is worried, waiting for orders from above. no one wants to take initiative, this is not how the system works. when it comes down to it i suspect that will see this e55entially turn into a 5iege, that ro5tov will become besieged, and they will try to negotiate yevgeny prigozhin s 5urrender negotiate yevgeny prigozhin s surrender to the authorities. whether he will be willing to go quietly, way mill may be another matter. that is the. using military force would be further down the list of options they would like to take. . «a the list of options they would like to take. ., «a ., ,., ., to take. talks about the other leaders of to take. talks about the other leaders of state to take. talks about the other leaders of state putin - to take. talks about the other leaders of state putin has - to take. talks about the other i leaders of state putin has access to? ~ . leaders of state putin has acc
the 2016 us presidential election. hundreds of young people who are acting as trolls, taking on fake personas, going on to the internet, influencing the election process, particularly in the united states, and yevgeny prigozhin has admitted this. and one crucial question in all of this is whether there is any dividing line at all between prigozhin and the russian state. in 2020, a joint investigation by bellingcat, the insider and der spiegel concluded that. there are other documented links between wagner and russian intelligence. for example, multiple reports show how they shared a base in molkino in southern russia. vladimir putin s never addressed the connection between wagner and the russian state but we know that prigozhin s operations around the world allow putin to exert influence at arm s length.