[speaking in a non-english language] tens of thousands of convicts took the deal, and after little training, they were shipped off to the battlefield in ukraine. putin desperately needed victory. he set his sights on a small ukrainian city of bakhmut and sent in his fixer. prigozhin made a public promise to putin and he would capture it for the kremlin. it was an absolute insult to russia s top generals. army chief and defense minister sergei shoigu. they were outraged and humiliated the president putin had entrusted the mission to
[speaking non-english] tens of thousands of convicts took the deal, and after little training, they were shipped off to the battlefield in ukraine. putin definitely made it a victory. he set his sights on the small, ukrainian city of bakhmut. and sent in his fixer. prigozhin made a public promise to putin, and the, world that he would capture bakhmut for the kremlin. it was an absolute insult to russia s top generals. army chief, gerasimov, and defense minister sergei shoigu. they were outraged, and humiliated that president putin
helped pro eastern ukraine. we re able to the branch out as governments including president assad, hired as acuity and combat services. it s particularly active in africa where it s been accused of committing atrocities while propping up dictatorships, and happening too the u.s. estimates that wagner employs about 50,000 soldiers, most of them believed to be assigned to the war in ukraine. our moscow correspondent, diana magnay has more now on the background to the group and its controversial leader. roversial leader [bleep] you ve got me prigozhin s the bruising boss of the wagner forces recently captured ukrainian city of bakhmut. he says what he thinks about the war way the war is going
sfb, security service or anyone else. here s former cia station chief and fox news contributor. quite significant for ukraine and they re responsible for operations inside ukraine and this is a zero sum game and russia is focused on their own internal dissent and treasonous dissent. they can t take it as they otherwise would. reporter: they ve forced military convoys to scramble across the capitol city advising residents to stay off the roads in washington white house national security counsel spokesperson said we re monitoring the situation and we re consulting with allies and partners on the developments. just a month ago, the wagner groups assault units hailed by president putin for the capture of ukrainian city of bakhmut and
While Moscow is trumpeting a ‘mission accomplished’ moment in its war, Ukraine even as it insists Bakhmut has not completely fallen sees an opening to seize the initiative from the city’s outskirts if Russian forces are no longer pressing forward inside the city’s centre