to victory with up to 44 percent of the vote, across ukraine, there s been intense speculation about how events in russia will affect the counteroffensive currently under way. the bbc s mayenijones is in kyiv. like millions of people around the world, ukrainians followed this weekend s events in russia closely. for a brief moment it seemed like president putin s iron grip on russian politics might be coming to an end, but as many people here in kyiv wake up on sunday morning, they still don t know what to make of it all. translation: we hoped things would advance, . that prigozhin will change his mind and join the ukrainians. but money does miracles. he was obviously paid off. he has basically surrendered. translation: for me, both prigozhin and putin are war criminals. they bomb peaceful cities while people are sleeping. for example, yesterday everyone was talking about prigozhin when ukraine was hit by missiles. i m not interested in him. he is a criminal. translation: ev
Seen reports from officials where wagner troops were purportedly located yesterday, saying they have left, the mayor of rostov was on tv saying the damage caused to the roads in the city by the tanks, the marks on the roads would be repaired within a couple of days, and this is all being on their 24 hour rolling news channel. the other news channels have just been with the usual weekend schedules, showing entertainment programmes and films. the other key message we are seeing on russian state tv, we are seeing the some news broadcasts actually from the evening, it has been shown in moscow yet, it s been shown in the far east of the country, which is several hours ahead, with a key presenter, and he tried to spin this by saying the country had demonstrated its unity, that the whole country had come out in support of putin and no one had
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Entertainment programmes have been removed from the tv schedules and i think other russians, of course, can look for information elsewhere, this is the message that they get and, ultimately and polls suggest that ultimately, they are behind the so called special operation. trier? so-called special operation. very interesting- so-called special operation. very interesting. thank so-called special operation. very interesting. thank you so called special operation. very interesting. thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to speed with what the russians are seeing on their television. with what the russians are seeing on theirtelevision. under with what the russians are seeing on their television. under her much focus they putting on this on twitter in russia. what is the fate of twitter anyway, the current boss as he just never current plans are for the company was the takeover is complete. the tears they found a stroke at £34 billion deal to take over the social media platf
Hear on current affairs programme, but it s presented in a more kind of friendly way. they have now replaced some entertainment programmes, like the russian equivalent of dancing with the stars or who wants to be a millionaire. these were gone last weekend. well, if i may say so, you re, i think, half russian and half ukrainian. what do people like your parents because there are so many mixed marriages between ukrainians and russians what do you think they think? i think for many people from mixed marriages and from mixed families, it s what s happening in ukraine isjust unbelievably tragic. just simply because, you know, an invasion of a country where half your relatives live is almost like, you know, bombing your own neighbours and your friends, your relatives. and ijust. i mean, it s a very emotional topic, because my grandmother still lives in ukraine.