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
but in the last day of cause and with prigozhin now pretty openly challenging the very basis of the war itself, so that challenges put in terms of criticising defence minister shoigu and chief of general staff gerasimov for the war. but this is mr putin s war and there is no escaping from the fact that what prigozhin essentially is doing is criticising both the decision to go to war and the conduct of the war. on that basis, on the basis that so much of this is on president putin s shoulders, he did not lead the troops but he sent them into ukraine, do you think that this will ultimately be his undoing? it is too earl to ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict how ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict how this ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict how this ends, - ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict how this ends, but| early to predict how this ends, but i think w
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still people being killed in a kyiv overnight, the battle is raging in ukraine itself, but the bottom line is that this war has not gone putin s way and it has not gone from the very start. what we are now beginning see i think is very clear signs of a leadership that itself is in trouble. i do not know where this leads, there may be some way for this to go yet, but what we are seeing is the consequences of the weight mr putin has set up and run at the russian state for over two decades. this is putin s war, the way the russian state is built and operated, that is on mr putin. one final point here, we are going into an election year next year in russia, 2024 is the next presidential election in russia. because, in russia, it is not a elections are not about asking the voters to choose a leader, it is about asking the voters and the leaders to validate peter s decision
to stay on whether to hand over to a potential successor. to stay on whether to hand over to a potentialsuccessor. to stay on whether to hand over to a potential successor. putin s decision to stay on. and now this war considerably compared that process on the time comes. tote war considerably compared that process on the time comes. we are runnin: a process on the time comes. we are running a little process on the time comes. we are running a little short process on the time comes. we are running a little short of process on the time comes. we are running a little short of time - process on the time comes. we are running a little short of time here l running a little short of time here on bbc news, how do you think ukraine, the west, leverages this fracturing of unity in russia at the moment? i fracturing of unity in russia at the moment? ~ . fracturing of unity in russia at the moment? ~ , ., , moment? i think it is a little bit too early to moment? i think it is a littl