that mutiny came to a halt when wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin told his troops to stand down, just hundreds of kilometers away from russia s capital, moscow.the whereabouts of prigozhin were unknown until today. belarus s leader aleksandr lu kashenko announced that the wagner chief was flown to the capital of minsk, where he has started his exile. lukashenko discussed his interactions with prigozhin while speaking earlier. our first ourfirst round our first round of talks lasted about 30 minutes and we talked mostly in swear words are, almost only swear words. later, it occurred to me that there were ten times more swear words than normal words. i m not asking for a lot, let them hand me over, shoigu. i also need to meet putin. i say no handover shoigu. you know putin as well as i do. now, the strength of vladimir putin s grip on power has been cast in doubt. earlier today, he addressed the nation s military, telling them they had
i m sumi somaskanda. thank you forjoining us. we start in ukraine where russia continues its violent bombardment, despite its own domestic turmoil. the latest missile strike killed at least four and injured more than a0 others in the eastern ukrainian city of kramatorsk. it remains under ukrainian control but is close to russian occupied parts of ukraine. moscow s attack struck a restaurant and shopping center at a time when the region s governer said the area was crowded with civilians. a witness told the bbc he could hear people screaming as rescuers tried to reach them underneath the rubble. that witness a belgian freelance journalist also estimated that up to 80 staff members and customers were in the restaurant at the time of the strike, and said he fears the casualty numbers could be severe . president zelensky, meanwhile, said the attack showed the world that russia had to be defeated. the strikes comes after a weekend of instability in russia, where the wagner mercenary
what does ukraine need to do to capitalise on the instability we have seen in russia? are you getting the sense that there is a change of strategy there in kyiv? i don t think there was necessarily a change in strategy, i think to the ukrainians were quite close to the matter, they certainly understood the dysfunction of this war. they had been watching this fued between wagner, which has tens of thousands of troops, and one of the most formidable military units that the russian federation fielded and, frankly, gave quite a pounding to the ukrainians around the city of bakhmut, even though the ukrainians inflicted heavier casualties the russians and wagner were able to seize it. they have been watching this viewed slowly boil over and the fact that vladimir putin, who could have at any moment put a stop to this, he could have said ipay your bills, prigozhin, idon t want to hear anything
for a 24 hour insurrection, a short lived coup in russia is pretty thin. so people are trying to understand what the implications, quite frankly, what happened, and what the implications are long term. what about ukraine itself? what did ukraine need to do to capitalise on the instability we have seen in russia? are you getting the sense that there is a change of strategy there in kyiv? i a change of strategy there in k iv? ., ~ a change of strategy there in k iv? ., ~ ., , kyiv? i don t think there was necessarily kyiv? i don t think there was necessarily a kyiv? i don t think there was necessarily a change - kyiv? i don t think there was necessarily a change in - necessarily a change in strategy, i think to the ukrainians were quite close to the matter, they certainly understood the dysfunction of this war. they had been watching this viewed between wagner, which has tens of thousands of troops, and one of the most formidable military units that the russian federation fielde
down and killed during that much of the wagner mercenaries on moscow. although the circumstances of that are still unclear. so about, as i say, reasserting this idea that putin is strong. at the same time today we have been hearing more about what has been happening to yevgeny prigozhin. it has been confirmed by the belarusian president he has arrived in belarus, that his plane landed this morning, and that he will be given somewhere to stay there. he has been told that he can bed down there for a bit if he wants to, and the belarussian s will essentially look after him. and, indeed, any wagner militants who want to follow and join him in belarus. what exactly they will do that isn t exactly clear. mr lukashenko said they could join the belarusian army, the bela rusian defence ministry. one thing is clear he won t want an independent army, potentially a threat to his own power established in belarus.