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Circle, folks that he didn t really need to worry about, folks that he basically developed and kept in place mainly for loyalty. even if their competence is questionable, may not be as loyal as he thinks. in this case, he, frankly, is totally responsible for the insurrection and near coup attempt because he was aware of the infighting between sp prigozhin, he thought he could use it as a foil to put pressure the ministry of defense to be more effective in his work. he doesn t have firm control over his own elites that he s nurtured and developed for a long time and in a lot of ways he needs to demonstrate that to himself, to the elites and frankly around the world with some strength. we could see him lashing out in different kinds of ways to demonstrate that he s still the strong man that he pretended to be before this war. good point. the ukrainian president zelenskyy today acknowledged ....
Here. we want to receive the chief of general staff and shoygu. until they aren t here, we will be located here, blockading the city of rostov, and we ll go to moscow. president putin calls the alaskas by p actions by prigozhin a betrayal and a backstab to the people of russia, and those who follow him will pay the price. translator: all those who chose the path of trejachery, wo chose mutiny, who use blackmail and terrorist methods will face pan punishment and answer to the law and our people. joining me now, chief international correspondent nick paton walsh. nick, what is the view from london? reporter: yeah, extraordinary how fast this is indeed moving. it appears as are wagner s vehicles, we don t know how many, towards the capital moscow. that is their stated aim. prigozhin saying they re headed in that direction. initially, it seemed to remove ....
Defense of the security apparatus of russia. they had some autonomy, but they relied heavily on russian support, russian munitions, russian transportation assets, logistics. they were at arm s length, but they were kind of integrated. over the course of this, over the course of probably, you know, several different complications, they ve distanced themselves and, frankly, been ostracized by the ministry of defense, as prigozhin has been increasingly critical of minister of defense, the chief of the general staff, and other senior leaders. so, to me, i ve always perceived them to be kind of distant extensions of the state, but certainly, clearly, over the course of months and this war, they ve become increasingly difficult relations. they ve separated. they ve gone their own different ways. prigozhin and wagner have become increasingly radicalized. ....
translator: i repeat, any internal turmoil is a mortal threat to our statehood, to us as a nation. this is a blow to russia, to our people. so our actions to defend the fatherland against such a threat will be severe. all those who deliberately chose the path of treachery, who prepared a mutiny, who chose blackmail and terrorist methods will face punishment. joining me to discuss is retired u.s. attorney alexander vindman, on the national security council. remember, he was the key impeachment witness who had been on trump s call with ukrainian president zelenskyy, then raised the alarm that trump appeared to make aid contingent on an investigation of joe biden and his son hunter. he is the author of the memoir here, right matters. colonel, many are getting up to speed. let s go over the basics. who is prigozhin? prigozhin is a convicted criminal and, frankly, associate ....
Fight in the west, they try to reduce the attribution to the state, to putin s government, by outsourcing some of the conflict. they basically start to rely on oligarchs and oligarchs developing kind of tricks and tools to fight in this hybrid warfare against the west. one of them was this disinformation enterprise that s been long running. prigozhin has been sanctioned for that. they ve been playing in the internal politics of the u.s. and europe for some time. prigozhin also established this private military company, was funding it to run coups and mercenary activities out of the central african republic. he was involved in syria. when russia doesn t want to use its own troops, when russia wants to outsource to contractors, it relies on wagner, the most prominent of these kind of institutions. so wagner has been doing this for years, has some very trained ....