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i raised 5 times to raise taxes slots to pounds, fishing industries, places in new for us. 12 years off to the fore, pushy, many pages often counts from the cost on. i'll just say era. the mutiny in southern russia, bob and investor a say they've taken control of nature installations in vol. stuff on the on carries also the ssl just air of the items. the whole set coming up us in preston that imap boots and threatens the hoss response. as most cosy as a counter terrorist state of emergency, the head of the wagner group is threatening further actions on demanding a meeting with russia's military leadership. the
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process, the president, that in a potent has addressed the nation off the wagner, most of the forces claimed control of victory sites. and most of them don't describe the move as treason and said, decisive action will be taken because he does have questions to we will defend our country, we will defend our nation. we will defend our citizens against the threats we face today. some people are trying to use their interest against our country. we need to make sure that we are fighting in ukraine for the sake of our country, and to be sure the traders must not be there. a lot of people have sacrificed their lives for russia, and those that are trying to so rebellion and create chaos, and it will fail ultimately. pretty good. although i'm going to tell you if you've got any for those in a queue, say is a rough as military leaders of ordering as strikes, which kills thousands of his men. he's vowing to see what he calls justice for the dead. michael apple has the latest this video appears to show wagner
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forces and a leader. you have any precaution entering military headquarters in raw star, one of the city that somebody's buick. in a subsequent video, he's seated between senior come on does one of whom had early abroad costs the video urging precaution to reconsider his rebellion order. the medicine, re bosses his main control important sites in the cities. not within subscribe. you see him. so we are in the headquarters, it's 7 30 am military installations including the field and roast of under our control. so monday, across go and schedule. there are no problems. we took control to prevent f o strikes against as to the fullest, can continue a tax and the ukrainians units of the tension between wagner and the crime labs armed forces escalated during the battle of buck moved with the medicine res,
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played a crucial role in the drawing up, fight to capture the city. a precaution accuses the russian army combined is of withholding ammunition and other supplies from his men. ingenuous, you'd see more recently russia ordered. wagner medicine raise to sign contracts with the russian defense ministry by the end of june. russia's military leadership is accusing precaution of carrying out an arm. the mutiny. okay. on your pause. the moment you must do this before it's too late. obeyed a willing come on to the left. the president of the russian federation stopped to come when we return to bases and places where you'll stationed. security and moscow has been tightened. military vehicles can be seen guarding government buildings and rushes capital. for gordon says he combines 25000 men with more reported to be joining buttoned his rank as they made their way into russ stuff. well, in st. petersburg, police rated wagner is headquarters, mike level,
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which is era. while we have full correspondence following this developing storage and a holler will give us, we action from key for that also speak to him about the russian strikes that i have . some is in russian control during the ask. so when i get jago is for developments from london, but 1st 2 units off of out of a in must go. yeah. what do you make of what we've heard from the russian presence that in my food to a well indeed hayes by a while ago and now we're guessing some official reactions to his speech. we know that foreign ministry spokesman spoke about to unity within the country. while it seems like there is a new form of expression of loyalty to let him in prison and the russian armed forces, officials and that social networks rides the name of the region. all that will be nice ation with was we all, with the president, signed his page to the nation. mr. pacing has said that roches financing for its
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future and its identity bill source he's in russia will not allow the country to be divided and they will, of course, protects its people. he called the situation in the country, internal betrayal, saying that any internal unrest is a, is a deadly threats to the, to the nation and to the states. and that he also mentioned the conflicts with ukraine saying that being ty, what's the military machine was directed against russia? according to him, volume is fine to those who participated in the special mid shop ration in ukraine, our heroes. and now they should have joined the ministry rebellion, which is taking place right now in the country. i also some kind of growing channel associated with the wagner group claim that there was some classes with the ministry of defense in the wrong is region and ministry correspondence, right about the work of aviation along the full highway that but we calmed independently, verified. those reports, while the ministry of defense itself issued an official statement addressing
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flights of the blog and the group saying that they had go enrolled in pre goes criminal activities and participated in an under and beyond rebellion. and so they also guaranteed, oh fine says save, see if they surrender. and we also see that's a, according to some media reports, some fights has indeed returned to the initial positions as they had been off to by the army. however, according to various sorts, this is the 1st publications of it goes on statements, and his actions haven't been confirmations of like big clashes between wagner and as the regular army forces under the rules. to report that the wagner group not controls the come on sense and the number of security administered facilities in russia's southern region of real stalled, including an ad filled with, according to reports, ministry planes that continued carrying out the emissions. so the reports about the situation in their owners, but we can't verify those reports either. that's gonna have captured the facilities
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in their own is. so there was some pictures um, with progression to get negotiating with some high ranking army generals. and that we, we, we've had that they were born a forgotten about the consequences of his actions. and, you know, we understand that security has been stepped up in the capital. well, yes, absolutely. uh, indeed, the it has, i mean the security has been a tysons of russia in moscow on the terrace measures had been taken and the police controlled the rose in under ron moscow. several flight address was posted in the resign region, a huge traffic chime. it is not reported on the full don't highway and they will starve. and verona is regions. hundreds of people have this stock that since friday evening, and they're all sort pulls about um, with vehicles on the roads of all those regions as well. so we understand that's what is going on here right now is the tensions and the situation is really
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hastening up. so we, we do continue monitoring the situation here. we are assigned to. well, joining us now from down the ask is audi has some uh they what's happening in the last of on don't as far as your away as well. since this morning, got the statements from the wagner group about taking control of the central command in natural stalls. and later on, president clinton himself acknowledging that there is a problem in your stove and dropping a headquarters on locked and that is a need for solving this problem. as he said, now why restore since yesterday? when wagner has 1st statement came out, i can ask amanda vega of guinea through goshen. i claimed that the defense minister blind talk on his, the, the, the attack on his forces from restore them that he's going to march with his forces
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to restore, to take revenge. and that's what happened, at least with respect to the evocative group, being in the city. no, no, no reports, as you just said about resistance or flashes or any kind of military confrontations in, in las to barbara affiliated, a telegram channel with the bmc. wagner, that posted a picture of a helicopter wash, and i think up to that they came, drive down close to the metal noise area. and this could be the 1st off. it's kind of a confrontation or an engagement between the wagner group and the russian ministry just in case this is going from now on the other sides or roads surrounding restore the block to, to what's crusted off towards doing yes. towards the bottom nice. and this is a, these are measures that's worth taking by the local authorities and uh,
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entitled it with these developments. and natalie, how could these developments shape the situation on the battlefield itself? what carry it over here, for example? and then yes, good. we've been hearing since yesterday, lots of bombing, lots of volatility coming, getting out of the city. this could be related and at the same time, the ministry of defense. yes. today spoke about that and you are ukrainian count total offensive in the city of basketball building on what's happening inside russia. so these are the 2 main developments that we can talk about now. how this is going to impact the whole front line. it's also going to be important to understand who is really in control. we don't know is who is in control right now. of our enough chief says he is in the command and draw stove in the central ministry command. however, who is not in direct control. this is not something that we know for now. this is
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also not going to impact only uh, russia's front line with ukraine was reno wagner. group has it's a mess. cities in several countries out on the wall that they used to be described as bushes on in africa, in syria, in libya. so this is also going to have a big impact on a rush as foot straightened out on the door. okay, for now at a sign when, meanwhile, there's been no pause in rushes offensive in ukraine. let's cross, lots of don't know how and keep. so how is this volunteer developments being viewed? that of the, it almost goes without saying, doesn't it, that ukraine's political and military leadership will be watching extremely closely the way that these events are unfolding. politically. we've heard from me, kyla photo yak, who's a senior adviser to president zelinski,
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who points to what he described as obvious splits in the russian elite. and he said, events in russia are just beginning, so they will have expectations that this has some way to go yet. militarily, of course, they will be questions about how this could affect the overall cost of the war, given how important rust of it, the rest of and on ease. as a ministry come on posted types, the headquarters of the southern military district in russia is where combined and control is being exercised across much of the battlefield in ukraine. and clearly they will be wondering here the extent to which combined and control is potentially going to be disruptive, but i think more specifically on the battlefield itself in ukraine. they'll be looking for 2 things distinctly. the 1st will be the extent to which we caught onto this independently the extent to which wagner mess and ray forces have been re deployed from areas of the battlefield,
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where they have been active in order to hit the rest of and on. and other places, potentially vacating defenses. the places like back moved in the east of the country, but they fought so hard to win control over, and therefore allowing ukraine to redouble its efforts. there it is, one of the pressure points of its counter offensive. and the other thing they will be looking for is the way in which russian forces, traditional russian forces may also be re deployed in order to confront popular forces inside russia. russia is heavily, heavily extended inside ukraine. some might say over extend this, and if the defense has to be mounted in the country itself, they may have to find those on the front side. and ukraine has been mounting, probing attacks for weeks now in the early stages of its counter offensive. it will have getting the pretty good idea of the way rushes defense is all laid out. and it will be watching play state to see whether any new spaces are opened up for them to probe further. and sort of the spiteful of this overnight strikes has continued
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that way you are. yeah, i'm sure you can see behind me i'm in a, a pretty rubble strewn parking lot of a high rise apartment building here in key that was struck in the early hours of this morning and remind me of course, the one we needed that the will very much goes on the pieces debris of some 20 cruise missiles that were fired at the capital brought down by a defense using what was a very noisy and active defense night here in the capital. at never that i struck this building, fighting huge holes out of 3 sides of it, igniting a fire on 3 floors. 3 people are known to have died. emergency service workers believe that could be more people under the rubble. and as we speak, people going through belongings at a strewn across the roadway. here, looking at the rec and rubble of cars, i can see uh items, personal items that have been blown out of apartment buildings has a pillow beside me here. and what looks like some children's, uh,
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some children's pajamas. they would have been an ad, right? electing place, of course. but frankly, these ad right alerts happens so often that in the hours of the morning that quite a lot of people probably decide that they are safer in their apartments. then having just been knocked off to 19 underground bunkers. okay, that's the is the situation in chief at the moment we're going to continue with this and bringing the sonya diego who's in london for us. now, what's the reaction been from the british capital as well? that has been a sofa and an intelligence updates that's just been issued from the ministry of defense, where they've stated that in the early hours of, of the 24th of june the last day that said the feud between pedagogy and, and the, and the russian emoji has escalated into outright military confrontation, they've spoken about in this, in this intelligence update about how the bob know group forces of crossed from
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occupied ukraine into russia. and, and rust of on the, on how walk that has almost certainly up to provide a key security sites. and also how over the coming out was it states in this minute, in this intelligence update, the loyalty of russia, security forces, and especially the russian national guard, will be key to how the crisis plays out. this represents the most significant challenge to the russian state in recent times, about the british ministry of defense, giving its own intelligence updates the ongoing situation that but so far that hasn't been any outright, a governmental reaction from this. i think the tendencies for that to be more of a very, very well, let's watch and wait to see exactly what's happening here with the military intelligence. keeping those abreast of the situation as to how this is going to be playing out. but it's going to be interesting to know going forward,
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depending on how it plays out, how this is going to affect the, not just the how the british government response to it as well, but also in the european union as a ness. don't forget also that evolved the forces uh all over the world as well in venezuela and syria, and right across africa, you have some 3033000 troops stationed there as well. this is going to be a very interesting point, especially for fonts. seen some countries in the across africa who previously had ties with the french defense and a system that to turn away from that. i'm focus that on that ties to, to the vogue. now, a group is going to be also a very interesting opportunity for, for us to be able to say, look, what's happening, what's playing out that fronts can really be on your stable defense point the head . so it'll be interesting to see how that is going to be
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a going forward in terms of how the situation on the grounds in russia and ukraine is going to be playing out with the rest of the european union. sonya, i got you. okay, thank you for that. well, with this fast moving situation, the child stratford joins us now is on the road to buck moved in eastern ukraine. charles, what can you tell us? yeah, sure. right. we're on the road to eastern part. what we've seen a lot of troop movements this morning, but moved behind us. there's a lot of showing that we're hearing. well, we've seen um troop carrying helicopters in the area are cool. spot moved was pretty much the present football, vault, big push. it was where we sold for goes and make those repeated criticisms all the russian defense ministry criticizing them for not supplying on off of and it was the place really that involved not was,
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it was so instrumental in taking control of that city. so we've been speaking to ukrainian soldiers in this area for the kind of reaction especially morale amongst ukrainian soldiers seems to have risen. and they were very boy demand that we spoke to one man saying that they were now ready to exploit what he described as the tales in russia and push even harder. he said that in the last couple of weeks since this counter offensive has started certainly around a possible to the situation. the progress made by ukraine in forces in that counter offensive has been slow flanking attacks from the south. but the east and, and, and the west. he now said that they are going to push even holidays. so it's going to be very interesting in the next 48 hours or so. and that's something that something an ambulance man told us. um, there's a lot of ambulances positions, as you can imagine, along this road, ready to take you to be trained in troops out. and he said, yeah,
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we're going to basically sit for 48 hours, but not to put too fine a point on it. we're very happy with the situation in rush here at the moment and this kind of kyle, she's going to be exploited. we can imagine by ukrainian force, he's probing for weaknesses in russia's defensive lines in the hours and days ahead . so stratford to, thanks so much for that update. but let's take a closer look at the involved in the group itself. the private most me force was established in 2014. while you're gonna need precaution when it took parts and rushes annexed ation of crime near it since been involved in conflicts and it'd be a syria, the central african republic and money that goes in. as a businessman, with close ties to present that in the uprooting, is catering business, received contracts with billions of dollars from the military schools and government departments. when the group has been east, have tens of thousands of fighters in ukraine. many of criminals released from
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russian jails and promised freedom if they survived. the fighting development group has been the full frontal fighting in bucklin. russia captured the city last month . officers forces suffered heavy casualties. as entre if the travelers as a security and defense policy is done the editor in chief of the swiss ministry review, he's in geneva. i'm with the slides that welcome to the program. so in your opinion, how serious the challenges this to the russian ministry leadership is a very serious challenge. not so much for the russian military to fight despite what so we aren't hearing so, but definitely for the position of the russian president is very interesting to now is that all of the criticism as a tax by the goes, you have to be against units of the russian military,
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this escalators to direct confrontation, criticism of the military leadership and the command. but he has always been very example, not too much of science directly. political leadership. moscow is imposing what it calls an see tyrant meshes. what do you make of that as well? the situation for russia now, he is to react extremely quickly to this insurgency, to this rebellion. so within the next 24 hours, a very strong response is to be expected of the numbers and marries know exactly what is going to happen, which is the most probably we can expect and they are expecting someone called, or airborne calls. i special forces by special forces from the military or the ministry of the interior, because the next 24 hours may be decisive. and this is why my house, i've seized
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a number of mental treatments as factors, logistical interest factors probably haven't gotten their hands on to some very powerful lessons, tremendous centers. and so they are going to resist and spend time with their weapons in their hands. these are foss moving developments, but how does this change potentially the overall dynamics of, of the war and ukraine? directly. it will not change the dynamics of the complex because the units of the russian army majority generally are tasked with descending portions of the front line. and so these units are going to stay in place in their bunkers, in their trenches, and they are going to continue assuming their mission. and in order to fight against this rebellion, new forces are going to be necessary and they're going to probably come not from
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the front line, but from other areas of the russian federation. at the same time over the longer term. yes, there is concern over how the russian military is going to face the ukrainian pressure and the 2nd semester counter attack. there are 2 problems that are going to happen. uh, 1st of all, all of these forces that are going to be committed to dealing with the rebellion are not going to be available in order to rotate in and out. i'm trying to relieve the forces that are there. and number 2, all of this munitions that it has been essentially stolen or, or taken by our number is not going to be available in the just x axis to some of these units in this house is essentially cost. while this insurgency is under way, wagner has less rays in several different countries that mustn't be forgotten. now,
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could this have much why the consequences as a result of that? here, i'm not so sure because it has been so successful as a private. so, mean the tree company has become essentially a franchise and so you have different, really, very distinguished organizations that carry the same brand to them. yes, they coordinate some of their actions. they have some of the same uh, customers, of course. and they are fighting pretty much for the interest of the russian foreign affairs department. so there are possibilities, perhaps we will see you in the coming hours or days. some of these are responsible people in the the activities are buying or term out the world. we may hear some interesting statements that they either signed with their leader or their
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directors, or that they, on the contrary distance themselves. and i think that, um the, there are people in the, in the russian intelligence services that are going to be carefully monitoring everything that is being treated and, and re, to social media or interviews that are going to be given by these different partner executives. well, you've got a 1000 is, is very vocal agency, but in terms of actual ministry capability, are they capable of achieving his a? it is because you are talking about somebody who is a habit of 25000 seasoned veterans arms to the teeth and they have been tasked with some of the most possible and difficult missions that the russian army has has to handle over the past 6 months. so i'm not
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sure that these people should be taken lightly. there are definitely the people who are straight out of jail and prism may have less latree experience. but on your hands these people have absolutely nothing to lose. so i think that yes, it will be very difficult to handle these people, especially considering that a lot of the russian special forces has been committed to the site in ukraine. so i turned to one of the people you interviewed, just talking about the russian national guard, but we need to understand that the national guard is a relatively low. we're not, we're not as well trained. it's a series of units. and these units are essentially supposed to deal with terrorism issues, not always, uh, thousands of very heavily armed troops.
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accountants, andre the travelers will leave at the thank you for joining us here, analysis era. thank you. and we're hearing about more developments from russia's national anti terror committee. let's go back to moscow and speak to you the shop of out of that. usually what can you tell us a well actually when guessing a report rise, now that you've got any progression, but 1st let me tell you a little bit about that. so you've got any progression actually replied to mr. pace and statements. and he said that that no going to surrender. that's uh they, they are patriots and they will continue fighting with the system against corruption and the country as well. so we did receive some reaction. some official reactions on patients was here like a foreign ministry,
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sparks woman said about to unity within the country. a full mouth for probably a russian president. we trim innovative, also said that the country has to unite uh for the president. well, it seems like there's also a new full expression of loyalty to religion, a person and the russian. um full says officials and the social networks, right. the name of the region with was we all with the president and the in his speech as we remember, mr. person has said that roches financing for his future and its identity, and they'll still works. he's a, russia will not allow the country to be divided, that will protect its people. he called the situation in the country treason and the betrayal saying, but any internal on west is a deadly threat to the states and the russian people. and the he also mentioned the conflict with ukraine saying that the entire western ministry machine was directed against russia and according to him. 6 on his finances, who participated in the special ration ukraine. heroes are not,
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they should know drawing the ministry. rebellion uh, also some telecom channels associated with the blog and a group. a claim that they will actually clashes with the ministry of defense in the bar owners region, but to ministry. so i'm going to show correspondence right about the work of aviation and long beach and full highway. but we can't verify and those are reports . uh well, uh, the investigative can be say, it has launched a criminal case against the beginning progression and the f as be appealed to the fights as of the log and the group, and urge them to detain progression and the room they had evolved in a quote on his support as to join the ranks of his ministry, a company. and so what types the tales that he quoted k os in the country saying that it was not a military crew but that was a.
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