, thanks to you and everyone who works in our defense sector, it was possible to produce three times more weapons and equipment than last year. This was at a meeting with the employees of the defenseindustrial complex at the end of december, so the Production Capacity of the Ukrainian Defense industry in general has tripled. But what is the Ukrainian Defenseindustrial complex, who in ukraine produces weapons and which ones. Of course, there is a lot of data during the war classified but at the end of the year, the government announced quite specific figures in the Ukrainian Defenseindustrial complex there are 500 enterprises, 3,000 employees, and mostly private enterprises in the defense industry, four out of five of them. The Ukrainian Government wants to produce six times more weapons this year, but it cites three key challenges not enough money, not enough gunpowder and explosives, and constant shelling of enterprises, that is, the Ukrainian Defense industry operates in such conditi
wagner group sees that early on as a key objective, they pretty much walked in. they have held it since. they left a reasonable force, we think, in that area. although, at the moment, there is some local opposition from the chechens who are approaching rostov. they are very loyal to the regime. that is sort of developing in the city at the moment. so they have seized the city, they didn t have huge strength there, but they do have their headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters and the south controls on the communication. so it s really strategically important. prigozhin isn t a critic of the war, he is a critic of the way it is being fought. he thinks it should be fought. he thinks it should be fought more strenuously than it is. they have no interest in stopping the war in ukraine there, it is continuing but under wagner supervision at this point. there is this flying column that is making its way towards masco and we know that i
weekend, it is almost to the west because we have a frontal system are pushing in and it will take awhile to get here but it will eventually bring some heavy thunder and rain and behind ita bring some heavy thunder and rain and behind it a westerly wind and a return to something a bit fresher but ahead of the weather front, we can see highs of 30 or 31. on sunday afternoon. to sum it up it will be very warm indeed, the knights will be humid, it could be uncomfortable for sleeping and increasing chance of thundery downpours. that is what i have got a few. thanks, ben. and that s bbc news at ten on thursday the 22nd ofjune. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with mark urban, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. but from the ten team, it s goodnight. if more pain for borrowers as the rates go up again. the bank of
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
the last day or so has seen an extraordinary turn of events in russia. the russian president vladimir putin has survived an immediate threat to his power after the leader of the wagner mercenary group agreed to end his mutiny against the russian army. yevgeny prigozhin called off his wagner troops march to moscow late saturday night after negotiations with putin s ally and belarus leader alexander lukashenko. he also agreed to leave russia for belarus, and the kremlin has said it will not pursue punishment against him or wagnerfighters. but there are many questions unanswered about what s happened. to help unpack some of these i m joined now by a panel of experts. joining me live are vitaly shevchenko, who is from bbc monitoring, jade mcglynn is a researcher at the war studies department at king 5 college london. she s also the author of memory makers: the politics of the past in russia and russia 5 war. she joins us from oxfordshire. justin crump is a military veteran and