jade mcglynn from king's college london. always great speaking to you. dr. mcglynn: and to you.icole: until recently, the war was largely confined to ukrainian territory but it is now spilling over into russia's southern belgrade region. incursions there appear to be the work of russia's militia fighting against vladimir putin's regime. it is not clear how much control kyiv has over those groups, if any. dw spoke to a former russian politician who now represents the freedom of russia militia, one of the many groups fighting against russia. reporter: russian militia members taking on the kremlin. fighters from the russian volunteer corps claim in this video that they now control a village in russia's belgrade region. another group, the freedom of pressure legion, told dw they were attacking a russian city nearby. >> officially we are totally on our own. so we are not guided by ukrainian military. we use the weapons we have procured ourselves. reporter: the freedom of russia legion says this drone video shows their members moving through a russian town. attacking russian territory

meanwhile, jade mcglynn is a researcher at the war studies department at king's college london.itics of the past in russia and russia's war. she joins us from oxfordshire. and justin crump is a military veteran and chief executive of risk intelligence firm sibylline. thank you all so much forjoining us. vitaly, i want to start with you first, please. a key question we are getting from viewers here bbc news is, just remind us exactly what is happening in russia right now. well, there is a certain sense of things de—escalating and tensions easing in russia. we are seeing reports from various regions in south—western russia of restrictions being lifted, particularly restrictions on traffic, the roads being reopened and in rostov, which is the biggest, the main city taken by wagner yesterday, the only thing that reminds local residents of the dramatic events yesterday is the torn up tarmac in central parts of the city. that's because of all the tanks that drove up and down those streets yesterday. tomorrow is still going to be a day off in moscow, but by and large things seem to be

. -- it's great to have you on the program -- >> -- >> i want to start with the mcglynn but i'm goingion. a week ago, two days ago, the biggest possible exogenous threat to shake up the economy, makes things bad would be a catastrophe around the debt ceiling and a default. that is now been removed. what is keeping you up at night when you think about this economy? >> i think we should start with how strong of a position we are in right now. as you noted, 13 million jobs created in this presidency, unemployment rate is at a 50-year low. data looks good in terms of consumer spending, business investment. 480 billion dollars of private investment, in part because of the incentives that the president put in place in his first two years in office. so we are in a very strong position to weather whatever headwinds we may encounter. however, we couldn't have anticipated that russia invaded ukraine and all the disruptions that caused for the global economy. we couldn't have it anticipated delta and omicron in 2021 which caused real headwinds to the economy. and through all of that, this econom

joining me live are vitaly shevchenko, who is from bbc monitoring, jade mcglynn is a researcher at the studies department at king 5 college london. she's also the author of memory makers: the politics of the past in russia and russia 5 war. she joins us from oxfordshire. justin crump is a military veteran and chief executive of the risk intelligence firm. sib-line a key question we are getting from viewers on bbc news isjust remind us exactly what is happening in russia right now.— us exactly what is happening in russia right now. there is a certain sense of things _ russia right now. there is a certain sense of things the _ russia right now. there is a certain sense of things the escalating - russia right now. there is a certain sense of things the escalating and l sense of things the escalating and tensions easing in russia. we are seeing reports from various regions in south—western russia of restrictions being lifted, in particular restrictions on traffic, roads being reopened and in rostov—on—don, which is the main city taken by wagner yesterday, the only thing that reminds local