they have a foothold on the -- very much involved in syria, but links to, africa's staff raqqa as wellclassic state run mercenary, so allow in syria, and then into africa, to do the states bidding, but then a deniable market, and they were operating deep into syria, and you know, not formally under the -- and then into africa, where they have been a major player in sudan and elsewhere, not of the full behest of president, putin but fundamentally for, prigozhin the mercenaries and it's about generating wealth. >> okay, what is the future for the defense minister? the russian defense minister? >> the long-standing russian defense minister, and general -- who heads the armed forces has been great many years, i think his first -- in ukraine, they need to some degree be the focus of president, putin but he has -- that itself is interesting. i guess he wants to keep his team close because they are not doing, well prigozhin has you, know been very, very critical of the defense ministry. he stopped short of really criticizing putin, so they were firmly in his sights, and whether putin will fee