w. as far as moscow bureau chief, you're your shadow, john, just now from the lap in capital riga. that's because the w is banned from reporting in russia itself. you're the russian version of the moscow times is reporting that general sort of beacon has been arrested. what more can you tell us? well, if it is all speculation, terry is a to be content every 5, some experts we've told to seem to agree that at least precautions to protest was well prepared. his troops moved too fast in the forest. alas of the march from different sides without facing any considerable resistance. all of us say that the vic who haven't any goals for political demands and couldn't be a success control. so why should sort of you can have taken part in a box any way the name of a general sort of you can, has been mentioned for days, was commander of or he used to be commando freshman forces, games, ukraine from october last year to general release here, as he's gonna see that one of the best military officers and was owned by putting personally several media indeed reporting she's arrest, allegedly nice that she's himself ne, security service has been responding for more than 3 days already. but there are also many adults about it, for example, is a moment he is the commander of the russian space forces and to be known as the precautions people attacked only from the air on their march. them also also during this include denise, it publicly appealed to precautions, people to stop immediately. so there are still many questions in dallas and walk you through. people are asked, what do you back, your 8 of the allegations that the russian military, the russian military leaders at least knew about precautions. rebellion beforehand, as well as the 2 things. uh uh the uh sir, as 2 things seem to certain to meet terry at 1st regarding the boss and extremely highly respected man in the russian until uh, vehicle i suppose. yup. like kind of he roll and to the front of books was the more he decides to the defense minister as a great that he's, but the letter to became russia. the 2nd thing is that the goals and of course, copyright that closely with xerox an army and certainly knew many of their uh, well, personally, but regardless of, of the forest is not as the only irregular russian calling about you to think ukraine's there is some limited information about the of the so called private armies. natasha, i've tried to gather some of this information in this report. superior training, better pay on the equipment that at least is the reputation enjoyed by private armies fighting for the kremlin. and you cried. the largest is made up by the mercenaries of the wagner group, headed by you have any precautions in the russian media. they've come to symbolize moscow's purport to admit a tree might notably during the protracted battle for basketball. but behind the scenes, the force has become a mounting headache, particularly for the defense ministry and its boss. pity goshen has publicly heaped score an onset again showing a broad became an arch enemy and blaming him and his chief of general staff thought i'd get him off for insufficient weapon supplies that have resulted in. holly wagner casualties will not see where 70 percent short on i'm oh sure i go get us the most. where is the munition? yeah, we're pretty bad credit. we're pretty goshen. we're showing you who would get the upper hand. president putin appeared hesitant, but at mid june, he decided that volunteer fighters in ukraine would have to sign contracts with the defense ministry from the official reason. of, of these things have come, fix is the only way to insure social guarantees for mercenary fighters because there is currently no contract with a statement with a no contract with the defense administered. the b, c, g for precautions to move would have meant signing a contract with his arch enemy showing that categorically refused. but unlike his former ally from chechnya rums on ca, date of his unit, asthma is also viewed as a private army at the kremlin plains its signed. the contract with troy. google in google, back out we saw up to 20 other private combat forces are said to have been integrated into the russian army will, due to unclear whether that includes mercenaries from redwood. the 7000 strong unit was among the 1st to enter ukraine, went to launch his invasion, or po, talk, a force. ukraine. secret service claims is supplied and equipped by russia's state, old gas joined gas problem. according to the british newspaper, the financial times, it includes guys, problems, security guards, its own clear how many men make up the suspected gas pro melisha, or how big a role they've played in the war. and ukraine. troops like redwoods and pot talk fulfilled 3 objective, says military expert deposit losing an interview with the w. he said they act as a counter wait to the regular army. they can operate outside the bureaucratic system and shield the political and military lead from assuming responsibility. analysts say moscow appears to be relying on merson re groups to compensate for weaknesses within the regular russian army that might work as long as they don't follow the lead of precautions. wagner group and rise up against the kremlin in the wake of their insurgency. some fact numerous and res, have accepted an offer of exile and batteries. others are still fighting in ukraine . don't care whether any have given in an integrated into the russian army or your, your report there mention several other per a military or mercenary groups besides by now, how significant are they for russia to africa, significant and to the operate, the successful of a senior team to be very successful because private armies don't seem to have to struggle with the bureaucratic problems that, that the regular armed forces struggle