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from the front lines in ukraine is leaders in keys host at tons of the offensive against the russian forces. ukrainian ministry are telling us that life please. so they say the majority of this village there is still ongoing fighting home the house goods. and they say they are facing fish resistance, promotion policies, the, the leader is evolved to most every group. if jenny precautions assessors, fighters will not turn themselves in. and he's added that russia's president is deeply mistaken, of accusing them of treason right now, con volume. wagner. fighters is heading off along the m for motor way towards moscow. they're set to be about 400 kilometers away. earlier they seized control of military headquarters in southern city, over all stuff on don, president vladimir putin describe that a 1000000000 as

a stop in the back is voted to punish the mutinies leaders. which action later on prison ally arms on catch it off, says he's sending forces to the area to help with rushes on me. michael apple has more fucking is false, is occupied russia's military headquarters and raw stuff on done early on saturday . the group claim to shut down a russian military henry call dead men didn't turn as long the military convoy came on to fly on a highway outside the city of hold on this picture is also an edge of almost $200.00 russian troops, surrendering to wagner. video of the missing reeds on the streets of the city and southern russia immediately flooded social media. some this and res, even finding the time to order foster food. it wasn't long before rushes president was addressing the nation involving retribution. this should give you much, and that will we will protect our people in our state hood from any threats

including internal be trail and what we're facing is betrayal. exorbitant ambitions and personal interests lead to treason, the russian leaders spelling out just how serious he thinks the threat from wagner is where we're moving his move to submit it to you know, any internal turmoil is a deadly threat to our state hood to us as a nation, this is a blow to russia, to our people. russia's defense ministry appealed to wagner fights is to abandon provision, saying they've been tricked into what was described as their lead is criminal, adventure, and participation. and then on rebellion, the tension between wagner and the kremlin is armed forces escalate to during the battle of buck mode. with the masonry is played a crucial role in the drawing. not fight to capture the city precaution accuse the russian army come on is of deliberately withholding ammunition and other supplies from his men in an audio recording precautions, denied pollutants,

accusation of treason, bipolar disorder origin that we are patriots of our homeland. we had been fighting and we are fighting now. no one is going to turn themselves in on demand of the president's f. s b or anyone else. because we do not want any more of our country to live in, corruption, lies, and bureaucracy. this is why we are the patriots, and those who are against us are the ones surrounding the scumbags police rated wagner is headquarters and some petersburg. while in moscow, security has been tightened and what's described as a counter terrorism states of emergency imposed mike level will deserve leave at 5 correspondence. following this developing story later, we're going to be speaking to a diplomatic attitude. james base, is that the un headquarters? but the international community is monitoring events. child stratford is near the training and time of bach moved recently taken over by russian forces. sonya jago

is following developments in europe from london. and mike, honda is good reaction from washington. first we're going to go to you and your shop of oliver in moscow yearly. i just talk us through what has been going on the statements going to be coming up from the beginning. precaution at the head of wagner, and of course president presented himself the time. but let me bring you the fast. uh uh, well base. basically, we're guessing reports about the chechen smart battalions on now entering the city overall. stop on don't, and probably probably they will take up slight to with the wagner group by the way it's fights is evolving. the group sciences have been reported in the lip, it's most cuz erroneous and real stalled on don't regions. while progression keeps posting his statements on the internet and in one of his latest messages, he actually talks about why the wagner group was so popular. so according to,

unless he's quite popular among the southern people himself, on the one hand, his no doubt very small and well spoken, even though he often speak says some colorful language really. but people like that and he likes publicity hanging joys it and he's definitely can organize people and things. and on the other hand, he is a full what prison the criminal himself, if you, if you will, a very harsh mind. and he was sending his people to die and for quite a long time he was playing a role of a bad guy saying, lucas, me while you, you're willing to do want to leave it like me. oh, i like mr. chavira of chechnya. or would you prefer mr. pacing? so basically that was quite beneficial for payton as he looks much better compared to progression. and now with all the slicing and with all the administrative

rebellion that we see, i'm that really frightens lots of civilians. patient once again, a looks better then progression according to unless of course, a, so basically the he is the p o evolve for many people. right now you were talking about the, the wagner, uh, companies that were moving towards moscow. we understand that the security is being stepped up in moscow, but of course that's been happening across the rest of russia as well. just it just gives us more details about what you know about what's been happening as well. we know that the old travels has been cancelled in a row stalls o bus travels, at least i should say as so. so the buses from lip, it's kind of erroneous to mosca, has been cancelled as well as traffic on the most cloud rebate. here and most could, has been temporarily suspended, or the public activities have been canceled and problems that schools have been

postponed for a week. so you can easily see a piece of mitre equipment in the streets of moscow right now. and the heads of several regions of the people to remain at home, as long as the uncertainty of lost in most co onto terrace measures have been introduced to the police and controlled the roads in mosca and ron mosca. so, so basically several find a chess were reported in the as on region and also the workforce about a huge traffic drum and not in that the are all stop and as a role in years regions. so basically what we see now is um, well as lots of and such and see that as you're thank you very much. indeed, you have yourself a lot of a talking to us from moscow. okay, that's got a view from the front lines about these dramatic developments. child stratford is joining us on the road to box those in eastern ukraine. what's the situation for you? i chose as well. interesting to just sit in the last

few minutes. we've heard what sounded like incoming shells landing in the surrounding fields, as you say, the road behind me leads to bo fluids. such an important city in this story because of course, that's with wagner, played such a fundamental role in taking full control full russian policies. a few weeks ago we've been speaking to ukrainian soldiers in this area. and it's fair to say that the morale is pretty high on the back of this news. so i'm going to describe as kyle. so they said that they were going to try and exploit that. chaos on the russian control side of the front lines and push hauled towards about fluid. does it say these are already a few main official statements. so you can see there's quite a lot of military activity in this area. we've seen a lot of middle tree vehicles as i say, we've heard a lot of incoming and outgoing selling this morning. we've also seen helicopters,

which we believe are used to carry soldiers, infantry to and from the front line, of course. but it is very much a sense um, all the one of these pushy is in this counter offensive. one of a number of pushes along the front line. and in recent days, the great news upset that they made a few gains suddenly to the south of the city. it's interesting that we put on confirmed reports this morning by ukrainians, saying that to the full season may have taken re taken another few roads inside the city. so you can imagine the situation here is very tight and 6 floors on what's happening in russia, but it could have some very relaxed occasions full this area. exactly. and i wanted to ask you about that because this is going to be a lot of speculation solves about how this is going to impact the fighting that's going on at the moment, particularly yeah,

it's, uh, it's been an interesting few days for say we visited 2 areas along the 1000 columbus a front line. yesterday we were in an area south of the town of a leak, another so could, which was basically one of the sensors from where ukrainian force he started pushing forward and trying to take control of a number of villages. sounds of the town. now, the ukrainian government, ukrainian military in the last week of said that they have taken full control all around 8 of those villages. we were in one of them yesterday. and it didn't seem to be the case. i told the ukraine and military in that village saying that there was still ongoing fighting on the outskirts of that particular village we were in. in the forest, the tree lines there, there was a lot of heavy shedding. and we also visited the area around 200 kilometers north of that place in and around or around. the russian occupies the town of camina. now, these are the front line, ukrainian positions very close to that town,

the ukraine. is it safe in control of that? the area in last year is counter offensive account drew offensive, that was very successful, the south of the city of called a cube, and then the know i know 10 months since that. and it's being very quiet tool quite be the wrong word, but it hasn't been any games made by either side. now according to the ukranian troops in that area is they say that, that oil change in the last couple of weeks coinciding with the beginning of this counter offensive. there was a lot of heavy shedding when we with that and some very no, but you current influences as well. saying that the russians have basically intensified their attacks using helicopter gunship as strikes motors. and it was small groups of russian policies. they said that we're approaching the positions. russian forces were around 500 meters from that particular trench. so the question is, is this kyle says that you currently is describe it going to have an impact on whether the russians are going to need to move troops away from these for lines,

which would potentially make ukraine's count true offensive easy. of course, that remains to be seen a lot of unanswered questions, but it's fair to say, yeah, that could well be some serious developments along the front line in the coming days. charlie, thanks very much indeed. does charles try for talking to us from eastern ukraine? we're going to bring in sonya jago, who's in london for us to sonya. obviously a lot of european car countries are allies of ukraine. they've been supplying cash they've been supplying material. what's the reaction to all of this across the european capitals as well? needless to say that all lives on the continental focusing on what is happening in russia at this moment in time. and of course, one of the most full throated supporters of, of ukraine is the u. k. and the prime minister refuse to not upset that he will be speaking with allies, as well as general policies in the conflict in russia to avoid home to civilians

has also been an emergency committee. the british governments emergency committee known as cobra. they've met on such a day to discuss the ongoing situation in russia. the british ministry of defense also say said in a regular intelligence updates, that's the loyalty of russia, security forces. and especially that of the russian national guard will be key to how the crisis plays out. and it represents the most significant challenge to the russian states in recent times. it also says that states that with very limited evidence of pricing between wagner and russian security forces, some have likely remain passive, acquiescing to tawanda. now that is what the british m o. d have said on the subject. going now to the european union, the european council president shaw. michelle, of course, leading the group that brings the leaders of the european union members together. said that again, the union was going to be looking at the situation with

a very focused on. and of course, underlining the support that the european union has ukraine and its president. all of them is the, let's be calling it on wavering. this is a sentiment that has certainly been echoed even among other european countries that have even been a little bit more so to me. issues such as sanctions, for example, literally it's the itself, the, the prime minister's office, the georgia middle. and he said that as well as keeping an eye on, on those events they, they, it shows that it's a salt on ukraine, is causing, used ability within russia, in itself. now going to germany, germany of course, has also been on the side of a steel battering a little bit more caution in terms of sanctions. the german foreign, minnesota also match with g 7, counter pulse in order to keep a close eye on any uh, any sort of movements that are happening there is all monitoring closely, again, with those kinds of thoughts. but it's interesting to know that it comes in

a recall to the european union because it's such a house, it's late to settle, but sanctions, and it's going to be monitoring every single hour every in the coming days. exactly how the situation will be playing out. so you know, thanks for bringing all that done. that's the european re responds that sonya is being taught things about. sonya eagle in london, we're going to go to my china in washington. the impression that i'm getting might so far from everybody that we're talking to, that they, the international response, is essentially just wait and see. what's the reaction from washington? well, this being a great deal of diplomatic collectivity. it when the course of the morning, the secretary of state and to me blinking has been in touch with his come to pods from the g 7. he's had a telephone conversation throughout the morning at keeping track of the situation and creating a co ordinated reaction to what is ongoing within russia and on its board is also the national security advisor. jake sullivan is in copenhagen days meeting. some

members of the brakes including brazil and south africa this say pre scheduled attempt to widen the support from a full ukraine from non a line groups. obviously, the situation is being discussed said as well. now, one must remember that back in 2016. yup. guinea precaution was essentially the 5 united states by the bomb administration. and the early of this year, his wagner group as well was the quit a terrorist organization. so there has been a president in terms of the us position on this. now, although support for ukraine is absolutely unlimited, this deep disquiet among members of the administration about the consequences of instability within russia itself. the global consequences of that is something that is a deep concern to the administration. and of course, to the military leaders within the us. what closely watching the situation as it and bills that seem as a possible global threats,

the any instability within rushes. so that is a deepest of concerns in terms of this unfolding situation. and obviously all of this is being closely monitored. mike, thank you very much. indeed my kind of bringing us up to date from washington dc. let's go to a different magic editor james base. he's joining his life from the year. and i would imagine, of course, that you and his paying a great deal of attention to what's going on. how concerned is the international community about this of the un leave and diplomats all very, very concerned un headquarters where i am at the moment. it's not today and it's closed, but just hours ago, friday the security council was meeting in close session. i spoke to 2 different diplomats who were in the closed security council meeting, discussing the israel palestine. and so dawn and they told me yes they were paying attention to the meeting, but most of the time they were looking at the phone and the following. the latest information off the progression announced he was going to march towards moscow. and

remember, if you're a diplomat on your phone, you're not just looking at twitter, you've got your diplomatic cables. and many of these diplomats so ready into the latest intelligence as well. so whole lives very much on the situation. and i think diplomat saying there are real concerns and opportunities that could arise out of the situation. western diplomats say the opportunities potentially could come from ukraine is johnny was telling you moments ago. of course, why has been a matched in the russian asset in ukraine since 2014. they played a key part in taking cried me a the fight the wagon a troops a no longer that will, most of them are no longer there. and the disarray that causes gives real opportunities to the crating and forces they, i'm sure i'm trying to get the very latest intelligence about where the gaps are and where the opportunities for them to evolve. because this comes just at the time, the, as the accountant offensive is getting underway, both the downsides, this as well, a different,

but it's telling me they feel that potentially the russians, if they do feel they're starting to lose badly in ukraine, could lash out suddenly be crating and say they were responsible for the collapse of the dam. we'd have to look at is that for each nuclear power plant and also the real fear, the use of a tactical nuclear weapons. so real concerns as well as the opportunities about the possibilities in ukraine was telling you that if there was any fighting between one canada and the russians within ukraine, we haven't seen any of that. ukraine is something it's on the security council. genuine security council could potentially be talking about myself. and one of the interesting parts of this and that are many interesting parts, is that all the main at the center of it were our men who have been appointed by vladimir, put in. but of the diplomats telling you about what they think is not a mere putting the chances of surviving this are of the well, i think most people believe that the numerical advantage is great for polluted.

because if you look on paper, that is 1150000 russian soldiers or troops, ministry personnel, and at least 2000000 in reserve, and production is talking. and we know that he always exaggerates, of having 25000 men. so it looks pretty clear cut on paper, but i don't think it's quite as easy as that. why can uh, uh, it's not the convicts that they, they, they recruited, but the actual why can a false is the, the messengers, they all, some of the bundle, hoffman's and elite troops, russia has, and many of them a force in syria. they fulton, libya. they folded molly, they fulton's crimea. they fought in the dumbass. we've already seen what happened . did most of them don't know what it was that they had no opposition whatsoever. everyone just turned over, let them come in. and that seems so far to be much of the picture as they move towards moscow. we know the way i can, uh, uh, many of the people were recruited from the special forces. they will have links

with the special forces with the spec now. so they'll have links, i think, with the fs be so real questions, i think for president putin, does he have the loyalty for these forces? i think another big question is about at panama, because if you go to color more marching towards most go of times and you're getting more and more worried about it, which i'm sure present put to news, then you could try and take it out with that power and we've seen some efforts potentially to do that. why cannot only has limited number of jets and, and how difficult has, is our understanding. so that could be k. uh, also diplomats telling me you've got to look at what the leads in moscow, the business leads to the only adults and those around putting what they think about this. yes, you was hearing voices coming out supporting putting right now, boss, if the march continues and people start to join percussion and what not, as in clinton potentially could be in some real danger. diplomats tell me that real worries and of course, is about russia being a nuclear power. remember,

russia has slightly more nuclear weapons that the us, it has about 6000 nuclear warheads. that's more than any other country in the world . so this is a very serious business. it seems you were talking about today, the countries and much will wagner offers, particularly in the end, the african continent is something that i'll just say the reports on regularly. is there any indication of how concerned these countries are, which of course are members of the united nations for the group is operating is that there is any indication about how worried those countries might be about the impact and the ripple effect if you like, of what's going on. yeah. what are you going straight across the frontier? you've got a number of places where, what now have been authorizing us as a set that goal. so we'll price them at least in syria, but libya in the middle east is also an african country, of course, the north african country, the central african republic they being and so don, not clear whether that still operating in saddam,

but i think the place to watch right now, is molly, because wagner of very, very important in molly. so important that the government of molly early last week decided to tell the un, forced to leave. molly said he didn't need the un anymore of the un. what doing more harm than good? the un should get out presenting a headache for the secretary general and the security council, an impact on thursday. next week, they'll be a security council meeting to try and endorse a new resolution which that desperately trying to work out how to withdrawal let troops and how long it's going to take to withdraw the un. but for the molly and government, they now potentially have a headache. if the u. n is leaving molly and the well 1300 un peacekeepers in molly . and they were going to rely on the $900.00 wagon the other half. and of course, why cannot have much tougher rules of engagement in human rights groups of accused them of human rights abuses, even war crimes. in molly, but he will gun to rely on black and as you'll force your strong force to keep

older. and molly, then i think you're going to be a little bit worried about the situation now because it percussion doesn't prevail . and most diplomat site is a big headache for payton, but they still think probably putting will we went in. the end of implication probably wouldn't be around and i would suspect back into what it be around diverse . so a big headache, i think for the government to multi this morning, you know, diplomatic editor james base life from the un. james, thank you very much indeed. well, let's take a closer look at the wagner group. the private military contract to was started by a russian businessman, if canny took ocean in 2014 box and it was very secretive organization. wagner is partially funded, so its ties to the kremlin, but it also accepts payment in gold, precious jams, and natural resources like oil and gas. so before russia's invasion of ukraine, wagner stationed about 2000 fighters in libya. they've been there since 2019 supporting forces. loyal to wall, i'll call you for hosta. the group is for the long side pro syrian government

forces since 2015. it also guards oil fields for the outside government, not for 5 years about a 1000 involved emotionally. so provided security against the level of tax for the government in central african republic. it's believe ok, no joined molly's deck, a long fight against on groups last year after funds withdrew is troops. so how might this and usually effect russia's international standing up with joins by mile and campbell. i'm the director of political studies at the out of center for research and policy studies. who's here with us in the studio? everybody knows the diplomats loves stability so that the moment so russia does not have that stability. how is this going to affect the rest of standing internationally? what uh, it's really interesting that despite the old indicators that about the growing cox within the ocean elite, nobody actually expected that this was coming. so it's very interesting as far as

what i chose, international standing is going to say. and i believe that the, the image within has been shaken by this event because everybody was expecting, or was looking at within as a strong amount of pressure. he was, he couldn't be a, is a spa, and, or thought the is undisputed. and then there might be a cox here, and the are among the division within the show about within is, is actually in control. i know, i think everybody is questioning because of questioning that to and we didn't need to see actually because you in the x is, is alone and this new to me, or he's supported by other elements within the ocean establishment. and if that is, if that is the case, then a president with an authentic and follow up inside the shot, would it be very much damaged? i believe. even if he manages as the 30th from this, from this conflict,

as you report has just mentioned the fact that it has been playing a very active role and civil conflicts around the middle east and africa and syria in the, in molly, in central african republic, as well, as in is we've done some of these conflicts actually have a uh and now a b and more quiet done. they used to be in the boss few you, especially in the city and libya. i bought some countries like maddie and also so that we might be seeing some consequences is so done in particular, where some of the conflict is taking place between the militia and that if you are army. because back in that is that many she had dined with the was created by the ocean, a buzzer then in order to escape the legal consequences, offices and actions on the, on the feed into done. we have exactly the same. we have that we have an issue

supported by backing up. we own the one that's backing that actually is support ticket that i would support the forces of committee in sudan against the particular army. so we still need to see how that's going to impact the con, the ongoing conflict, and this was done as well as in mattie, as your correspondence was sitting a few minutes a few minutes ago. so we might be seeing some consequences insisting conflicts in these, in these countries. we wouldn't, we wouldn't be seeing also a weakening position of the ocean presidents and the professional stage. that's when indeed have have a major impact. i believe in some conflicts in the region. in syria, we might be seeing that sifting sits in bodies would take advantage of the weakening position of a flush out and see if you have seen that, by the way, over to the boss over the past 18 months since the beginning of this conflict in

ukraine we have seen even on, for example, taking advantage of the bush as weakening position and cd because both and i was forced actually to withdraw some of his forces from celia because he need them another place. and you can, that we might be seeing also some consequences in libya and molly, in and in is with that. but as i said before, that's what it also depends on how the shop president is going to handle all of this. and is this going to take more time to be to be solved by him? is, are we are, we would missing the civil war and, and russia as some come and get that as i've been, have been seeing it since this morning when brokerage in b. a, a joined by a lot of my other by others who might be actually as he upset by the way the kremlin has been or the ministry establishment and the show has been actually i think this.