miss the growing tension. they now with more change their world currently go in and be insight starts joint on dw the . this is dw news y from berlin. vladimir putin says his country has been stabbed in the back. the russian president claims, as people have been betrayed and a televised wretch, the leader of the wagner mercenary group, directly, challenges the kremlin and says he's marching on moscow the

unlike local welcome. russia is president vladimir putin has vowed to crush what he called an armed mutiny in a televised stretch. it comes after of gaining precaution, head of the wagner mercenary group, said he wanted to oust russia's military leadership for goshen claims to have taken control of key military sites in the southern city of la stuff. on dawn, this includes the regions military headquarters, a key logistical base for russians invasion of ukraine. goshen denies, however, he is staging a crew. the kremlin is urging fighters and the wagner group to a band and their leader present input and also said decisive action will be taken to stabilize. the situation involves stuff and done. if you buy them with this vehicle to actions that split and now unity rent abandonment of l. people about

comrades in arms who are now slicing in the front entrance just enough. this is a step in the back about country and out people and you enough for me as russian was so it is declare a counter terrorist operation in moscow. wagner, chief of gainey for goshen, says his troops are prepared to fight to the bitter and rushes military scramble to its own defense. as the full out from the war and ukraine time, these vehicles patrolled the streets in moscow and the city of roast of on don't pricing for an rebellion from their own private soldiers. in the wagner group, the groups both fee of gain a precaution leave. the charge vowing to topple and rushes, military leadership after accusing them of launching strikes on his own troops.

to show that they still hope that they can win this war. but as long as there is no management, no military success is the leadership of the administrative defense as carefully deceiving the president and the president receives those reports that do not correspond to reality in any way. there are 2 agendas, one on the ground, the other on the president's desk of the for goes and claimed early success and the rebellion saying his troops faced no resistance at chick points to russia and managed to reach russ stoled. those claims have not been independently verified. the kremlin immediately laid mutiny charges against precaution interrupted tv broadcasts. to deny his allegations about the war and ukraine authorities even appealed to wagner soldiers directly to defy the

lead time. is that necessary? yeah, but as though that's the judge you, you have any progression to stop a junior. the enemy is just waiting for the internal situation to west and the country of so it is unacceptable to play into the hands of the enemy in these difficult times for our country. divided into groups be a heated the capture of the ukrainian in the city of bucks mood last month. a battle field succeeds that in bold and per goshen. to criticize the kremlin, that criticism now growing into a major threat to moscow and its entire military leadership, dw corresponded roman gunter ranko joins us now with the latest roman. uh, what do you make of put in speech this morning as well there, there are some key takeaways 1st it came very late. so um

a lot of people expected it at night. the country was left without an idea of what pushing these thinking about it. so they, the country was very, very nervous, and this is very dangerous for blogging mapleton. so his major massachusetts and has decided that he is ready to stop mister precaution by force. he tried to avoid the bloodshed. he probably negotiated about failed. so we can expect a major bloodshed in the coming hours of days. but of course both people try to um to make it as bloodless as possible. but the but things are getting often out of control for him. and um, it is a gigantic experiment that he started by invading ukraine. and now things are developing in a very bad direction for him. and she's it, and he's right. in one point he said he'd draw parallels with and the storage wash, that's always the russia 100 by the 100 years ago. 1917. 1918. when the 1st of all

will that story pollution in russia and the civil war? uh, and it would use absolutely right to draw comparisons. this is where russia is heading now, but we are not there yet. you can take experiment, a precaution claims. his troops have entered russian territory, specifically, roles, stuff on gone. how significant is this to? well this is a, this is unparalleled, this is very significant with i've never seen anything like this and an inverse interaction history, that there is a mandatory opposition to the military leadership of a country during a war. and it is not really surprising because a few weeks ago in late april early, may most difficult and criticized the defense minister, sega, chicago, and the head of the russian. um army and mr. glosson most in very hushed tones. so up from that moment on, it was clear that things are going into a direct confrontation by taking control over stuff and done at least part of the

stuff and done by the headquarters of the russian army ease, which is fighting in ukraine. it is, it is an unprecedented move and it shows how weak the russian power is and how weak the russian military is as well for going claims that rushes army launch the tax against his man. any reason to doubt those claims. and why would roger strike the very man who have largely spearheaded russia is defensive in ukraine as well. there can be 2 possible explanations. first am in the wall. things never go according to the plan we know of a friendly fire. but the 2nd 2nd explanation is, is more likely i think it could be really happening because we've seen and then take a nation. the confrontation between mr. gordon vaughn and the group and the russian army, the, the russian generals who were not happy that's and mercenary group was fighting better than them. the professional generals. so we don't know who exactly. now is

involved on the, on both sides. but we can assume that them might be also some russian generals, or the offices qual, backing to gordon, but they are still in the dark. we don't know the names from and as you know, precautions criticisms have consistently been directed at rushes, military leadership, but showed his actions now be seen as a direct challenge to put in as a leader of the russian state. absolutely, this is a direct challenge to bruton. because he's not only the president, he's also the chief commander of the rationale and the precaution. um, not just by what is happening. and now since since friday evening. but also before and 2 weeks before he criticized the russian defense minister in, in very, very harsh tones. these things were a direct attack on me stipulating some, supposed that maybe putting both behind that and maybe putting was trying to

somehow or the motorcycle. uh, because he was not happy with how the what was going and ukraine but i um, now i don't think that this see or is, is it is true because the damage to the russian state, the damage to prove to himself is to be at dw, corresponded roman country ranko many facts. a closer look now at the man who claims to be marching, his mercenary forces onto russian soil in an apparent open rebellion if can you prove goes for the part of you and your kind of walk yet. that's what i advise you, but as you would get the show keywords 2 years now, today goes by without commentary from rush house vocal oligarchy you've given you pretty gordon on the war and ukraine are. those are what i need to provide. so i was more than just an opinionated billionaire. he's a key player in the conflict as commander off the walk in a group,

a private army of mercenaries. and over the course of the war he constantly has ruffled feathers among rush has a lead. pity gordon has frequently blamed chief of staff by you to get i assume of and defense minister to suitcase i go for not providing ammunition to walk in or he has even threatened them or not. so you can watch go by pretty positive. yeah, there's the friends up to the bad breath. it just cut the pod so you will have to do the but who is big wars and why can you speak so openly? the st. petersburg native had a trouble started in life spending most of his 20 behind bars for robbery and stepped. after his release, he set up a chain of hot dog stands in his hometown and earned enough money to open

a restaurant. in the mid nineties, the new venture allowed him to mix with the rush off high and mighty, including vladimir 1414 broad, 4, and guess their earning p version, the nickname, 14 chef. but it was only after russia illegal annexation of crimea in 2014. that science began to merge, that the gordon was not an ordinary businessman. he became the commander of the wordly p. m. c. the private army for hire made a name for itself, fighting across africa in libya, syria and molly gaining a reputation for boot ality along the way. but despite the armies experience, the gordon says if lex organization, we'd love to have those restarted to this wonderful special operation. on february 24, i see 2022 of the restaurants around for month was and then came to a standstill was the we got our boss from any directions and what did we see?

an arm is that discrete? can no management. i don't know what the training and all weapons will property in, you know, kind of the standard. yup. model. it's a thought to myself, but that could be the only after months of threats, it appears the wagner bosses frustrations have finally exploded into an armed rebellion. that spring in dw special correspondent abraham, who's covering this story for us from t. i a how have ukrainians been reacting to the news of an apparent rebellion in russia? of the well, especially reactions had been slow this morning. michael, but now are trickling down. we heard from a spokesperson of, of ukraine, the military intelligence under use of who said the, what's happening and rush hour right now is a continuation of inter internal conflict that has been caused by russia's

aggression on ukraine. and he said that this is a sign, but the ring team in russia is collapsing. and that things in his perspective will only intensify and get worse. there's also that tweets that we saw from the ukranian ministry of defense a, as soon as the event started unfolding, it didn't really, it wasn't really directly commenting on the events. but simply stated, we are watching. and certainly, people here in ukraine have plenty of reasons to be watching what's going on in there and in neighboring rush are right now. this could have a possible effects on the battlefield. we are ukrainian, we cream is not in the middle of it's offensive in the eastern russian forces are internally fighting that could certainly be an opportunity for ukrainian forces to make gains. and there's also how this whole debacle plays into ukraine's

narrative on the world stage. what they've been saying from the beginning is said they are united defending their homeland defending their countries where as russians don't really know what it is that they're fighting for, or why they have entered the score. and certainly we can expect ukrainian officials to use what's going on right now to further that narrative on the global stage, perhaps to sway some of the countries that have been reluctant to our right support ukraine. i always hear that there were air attacks on keys and other cities last night. what do we know about the casualties or damage? they cause writers. it was another horrifying night across ukraine. the air raid sirens went off. i think $3.00 to $4.00 times within the span of 6 hours. i mean my team and i could barely get any sleep is as many here in the country. 50 ms files were launched by russia on ukraine

just last night. that's according to the ministry of defense 41 of those were struck down and we know that 3 people have unfortunately lost their lives here in the capital overnight. as a result of these attacks, of many, many things is always and of course will bring you all the latest on the turmoil and russia in the coming hours. but do stay tuned. up next sports life catches up with a ukrainian water skier and finds out how the war change his life. a michael oak who in berlin and i'll be back as always with more news at the top of the next hour . very well today. well, thanks to janet justin, janet love to hear about anything except for away from the spot. i'm not even allowed to go to my own car and everyone with later holes and every single day stuff getting.