within the map of russia. it has nothing standing in its way. let s do a quick review, we debate whether to pronounce it waggoner or waggoner, it is named after the german composer wegner. in 2014 during the annexation of crimea, it has evolved to become a private contractor for russia s military. it is not legally registered, i guess legally recognized by any government anywhere in the world. it is a shadow we contractor that is taken on the military responsibilities for much of russia especially in ukraine. rachel: the prisoners are promised you fight for six months, we will take away your sentence and you will be free if you fight on the front lines. you wonder why would russia depend on this group? one of the reasons is they want
so, the so called special military operation on february 24 - was launched for a completely different reason. live now to vitaly shevchenko, russia editor at bbc monitoring. thank you, could you explain what seems to be going on? what thank you, could you explain what seems to be going on? what makes these remarks seems to be going on? what makes these remarks from seems to be going on? what makes these remarks from yevgeny - these remarks from yevgeny prigozhin, the ones that he made in the evening, is that he has moved on from criticising the russian military using very salty, rude language. he has moved on to making direct threats across the top military commanders of russia who he accuses of carrying out missile strikes against a number of camps used by his waggoner mercenary
sophisticated balloon, not a silly balloon. and now put troops in our back door. they get rewarded with a meeting. it is truly astounding and dangerous. this is how wars start. if you contrast that to just a few years ago with trump, what happened there? iran hits the embassy and kills an american. the field general is dead. isis gets out of control and continues to attack us in europe. baghdad dead. the russians cross the red line in syria. 300 russian waggoner mercenaries wagoner mercenaries dead. and deterrence was restored. that is how you keep the peace. that is how you prevent wars. you have a bunch of academics right now like blinken, austin and others that think if i can just get them to the table and be nice enough and make enough concessions, then they will be kind of back. it could not be more dangerous.
left standing. in a bunker, they direct artillery fire to support their inventory. their last line of defence on the western edge of the city. this drone feed of bakhmut tells you a scene of utter devastation, not a building left here in the city that hasn t been either destroyed or damaged. itjust destroyed or damaged. it just tells destroyed or damaged. itjust tells you how fierce this fighting has been. waggoner, they mostly waggoner fighters? the us estimates more than 20,000 russians have been killed in the last five months, many of them here in bakhmut wagner. reserve tells me that i care about their people. we watched two russian soldiers as
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