as katrina doxey and associate director and fellow at the center for strategic and international studies. and nico of europe, you're an independent journalist who's location is undisclosed for security reasons . a warm are welcome to you will. thank you very much for being on inside story. i . if i can begin with, you piece it in the last week or so, a wagner group is claimed it now controls a key village near bach motes and is making gains around there. i mean, can you just give us a bit of an overview of how effective they have been as a fighting force, a new crime sofa. they've been pretty effective compared to like other components of the russian invasion. i see 3 major components, the regular army, the chechen battalions, and the wagner group. of course the question is that there are effectiveness was due to enormous brutality. the pentagon estimates the numbers up to possibly 4050000 people and 80 percent, or even 90 percent of the people are convict basically brought directly from jails. this is like a very reminiscent of the style and in practice during world war 2. and i would s

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and while we were there was perfectly safe, we were shown, doxey meters, and their readings were absolutely fine. and within the norm and in fact, well below the norm. and also, on top of that, this information is corroborated by repeated research and studies and readings taken by the international atomic energy agency. and according to the russian side, all this, this provocations what they call it, is being done to fertilize the soil ahead of the un general assembly, which is scheduled to take place on the 22nd of this month. and apparently ukraine is looking to push a resolution, very much prove ukrainian resolution and anti russian. and this is done well to will to prepare the soul and to win the hearts and minds of the you and delegates. again, it is important that whatever resolutions are will be accepted and will be voted on a, at the you and general assembly. it will have the non blinding effect. so it won't be, it will just be a call to the you and member states. it will be just a cool, but it won't really oblige any country or any side to anything. all righty, course done off. we

his condolences over the deadly tragedy. russian emergency services will be accompanied by rescue doxey, provide all the help they can mean. while the russian defense ministry has confirmed that over $300.00 russian service men in syria, already taking part in rescue operations. and with official dance as far away as israel videos posted on social media. so like shaking inside buildings and local residents running for safety. according to the spokes person of united and it's really volunteer emergency medical service, the danger has yet to pass as fans of deadly off the shocks remain early morning, most people receiving but some people walking up by your bed moving a little bit there weren't any injuries reported thank god, what we're really here is sending a mission to release mission to to turkey. so we're focusing on on assisting turkey . secretary need. we've also reached out to syria, to offer assistance. will be taken. but we definitely have made the offer 1st in line to the most important value that we all share. and whenever we are american aftershock, there is a pretty signific