i called the wagner group, and now they will investigate this. we are not hired killers, they just slanted my name. there were no murders of children and civilians during our operations. was it can simply force me and 2 of my comrades who were next to me . what we learned to the 1st last week when i of vladimir, i said again, announced publicly that he was about to sink you've data. but it garzon who is the, the leader will the owner of the wagner private military company. he said that he had information which would make mister pre goshen a leper. nobody would approach him and it would destroy his career. a little late. a few days later he published these youtube presentation. it is difficult to call this an investigation whereby there were 2 alleged wagner fighters who talked about all sorts of atrocities. now this is stuff pulled out of nightmares. you know, the, the whole slaughter of hundreds upon hundreds of men, women, children in out. it's almost by wagner fighters, as well as the mud of their own fights as execution of their own fathers,

a former wagner find our claims. he was black now by human rights group to lie about elijah transit. he's committed by russian forces in the war and ukraine. r t spoke to the soldier who implicated the founder of the so called lag new site planning. mere as such everything was said under the orders of our search kim. 2 years ago i ended up in pre trial detention center number one in serrato for a crime. and then i was transferred to the tuberculosis hospital. there i was tortured. they mocked me. oh, this was found on video and i was h can, has, is compromising evidence in my interview. more than 90 percent is a lie. i was forced to say it was such him posted is wrong. he took advantage of the situation. i called the wagner group, and now they will investigate this. we are not hired killers, they just slammed to my name. there were no murders of children and civilians during our operations. was it can simply force me into my comrades who were next to me. us what we learned to the 1st last week when a vladimir, i said

instability is small, wagner buys diamonds there, wagner buys oil there, now there is a rebellion ingner bought weapons there and exchanged them for the gold mined by wagner's subsidiary company , that is, in fact. it is necessary to clearly distinguish that this is a separate activity of prigozhina and not so much the politics of russia itself, because, let's say, if we talk about mali, about sudan, about many other countries, it is the same central african republic, they are so normal and did not go beyond the refi to make contact , they did not start helping putin in this invasion, although there, many people promised mercenaries and weapons , the introduction of sanctions, anything. weapons in developing countries, they set up semi-legal and illegal places for the extraction of diamonds and gold minerals, including, that is, you know the film of the early 2000s and the end of the 90s, the armed baron, this is roughly what prigozhin is doing now, because there a very large part of the film was just about africa and this is what we see now , this is the influence of one, well, let'

there is currently not a single wagner, p. m. c fighter. and sudan, i emphasize there is not a single one. it has been this way already for more than 2 years. there have not been any wagner fighter since, who don for 2 years, and there were none. today. various british media outlets from the daily mail to the times have released reports claiming to link the wagner group to the chaos and sudan wagner, members have been deployed in parts of africa to fight against insurgents and terrorists and actions coordinated by local governments. it's fighters have served as instructors for the armed forces of the central african republic as well as molly. and i've also conducted counter terror operations in that region. canada's national public broadcaster c v c says it's quitting twitter after being branded as 69 percent steep funded by the platform. twitters new labeling policy also saw britain's b. b. c. slap for the similar label last week, sparking outrage from the corporations management archie contributor rachel mars. it has been looking into the

but unlike the american poor mil to restructures wagner bmc destroys only the enemies of the world and does not commit crimes who arranged wars and revolutions in korean. a young man, they don't want it. it was for some fingers against a humanitarian law. and i think that his practice judge of a self propelled artillery unit in action. there cannot vehicle can be dropped by air. quibble ed ah, it's eminent army early capture trash to do a visit was on the truck helicopter of the muller processors on oh, for the crush us to know women also to provide l 2 victims. and on the mile an army in severity national currencies. russia is deputy prime minister claims the move and the euro are being used less and less given the problems we face. trend will continue. our colleagues from china are already paying for gang shits on rushes gas prom bank and to remove it from the international. given the bank's role in the russian establishment scheme to embezzle their proposal also suggest banning the importance of respite. many western countries already banning him ports of russian oil for 17000000000

the wagner group did not commit any crimes. they tried to seek various crimes in various parts of the world to us. but unlike the american poor mil to restructures, wagner, beam seated who arranged wars and revolution of ghana, stan libya, syria, muslim, big, central africa and so on. b, m. c. wagner later came to some of these countries and stopped the wars with an iron fist, but in no other attempt. of course, there was this one by the italian government now vaguely is responsible for the increase in migrate through the central part of the many, corinthian. and this is all part of mosque was planned to d, stabilize europe and those that support ukraine. i think it is now safe to say that the exponential increase in the migratory phenomenon, departure from african shores, is also part of a clearer strategy of hybrid warfare that the wagner division is implementing. using its considerable weight in some african countries. we have no idea what's happening with the migrant crisis. we don't concern ourselves with it really, that v

kosti recognized the russian group of wagner mercenaries and by a foreign terrorist organization, in addition to establishing a system for the transfer of confiscated russian assets to ukraine, as well as expanding the legislation on prosecution of war criminals on the territory of the united states of america, as for the very crimes that kosting listed during his speech, he in particular from such a figure that as of now, at least 80,000 war crimes have been recorded and relevant investigations are being conducted, and according to him, the number of e-e messages is constantly increasing also, among the crimes that were calculated by the hosting , mass gang rapes, direct gang rapes, rapes of children in front of their parents were named. torture and torture of this story. he told the stories of the witnesses who survived after all these tortures and abuses. he read the conversations of the legislators, how they reacted to hearing the reaction of the legislators was quite emotional, in particular, the co-chairman of the committee, the democrats and the republican, said that these cri

it really does lead wagner's been reduced to now my grand cravings. they could do in russia, who's interested back in a group defendant is involved in the health region and that helping the country, both the, the surety as well as hardway, in terms of defending himself against the numerous amount of rebel groups that continue to terrorize their collective country and the region all the while claiming large suite of land available when minister of was here in the continent. he expressed the fact that molly will continue to receive the support from moscow, and that was of military hardway and know how and as russians will continue to train the military of molly in order to be able to fight this effectively on it . so of course that might be just too much good news for the west kind of religious philosophy in jonesboro. a political advisor for sudan rapids support forces said the opposition group is open to peace talks, but with condition to dina manor. no, it was a we don't mind considering mediation. all we ask from the mediators is that they do not se

that wagner's been reduced. her now. my grand groceries. they could develop russia whose interests the vegan of group defense, is involved in the for health region and is further helping those countries both via security as well as the a hard way of defending themselves against the numerous amount of rebel groups that continue to terrorize their collective countries and the region all the while claiming large sweets of land as though when minister lover was here in the continent, he expressed the fact that molly will continue to receive the support from moscow, and that was of military hardway. and know how, as russians will continue to train the military of molly, in order to be able to fight this affair gently on it. so that, of course, that might be just too much good news for the west. a personal advisor for suzanne's rapids of all forces commented on the 3rd party mediation offers say that as long as such initiatives do not seek to profit from the conflict, the opposition group is open to p. folks. so we don't mind considering mediatio

c, wagner later came to some of these countries and stopped the wars with an iron fist . but in the other attempt, of course though, if this one by a italian government now vaguely, is responsible for the increase in migrate through the central part of the mediterranean. and this is all part of mosque was land to be stabilized europe and those that support ukraine in the country. i think it is now safe to say that the exponential increase in the migratory phenomenon departs from african shores. is also part of a clear strategy of hybrid warfare that the wagner division is implementing. using its considerable weight in some african countries. we have no idea what's happening with the migrant crisis. we don't concern ourselves with it really does lead vegan has been reduced to now migrating cravings. they could do better. russia, who's interested begging a group defend, is involved in the hell region that helping those countries, both the surety as well as the hardware, in terms of defending themselves against the numerous amount of rebel groups that continue to terrorize t

i emphasized once again that the wagner, p, m. c is in no way involved in the soonest. conflict and the questions of all the media regarding any assistance or nothing more than an attempt of provocation. therefore, we will immediately report such attempts to the u. n. that you're trying to rock, the sudanese boat is a, the west has failed. not only got it done, but the region as a whole. there is still insurgency, even despite the better part of 2 decades in that region, thing that they will help to stabilize it. this of course, follows lightly from the overthrow of the libyan government and one gadhafi, and then a set of the cad amongst the pigeons in the us a hell as it were. but no one dares to mention that russia has no interest in a broken sudan. in fact, they prefer a sudan less functional. the leader of the vegan, a private military group, has offered to send a plane full of medical supplies and offered himself as the mediator. if necessary to help resolve the existent conflict and for the future prosperity of sudan, i am r

is also part of a clear strategy of hybrid warfare that the wagner division is implementing. using its considerable weight in some african countries. we have no idea what's happening with the migrant crisis. we don't concern ourselves with it. really. the lead wagner's been reduced to now migrating cravings, thinking to russia, whose interest of begging a group defend is involved in the hell region that held those country. both the security as well as the hardware in terms of defending themselves against the numerous amount of rebel groups that continue to terrorize their collective countries and the region all the while claiming large sweets of land avail. when minister was here in the continent, he expressed the fact that molly will continue to receive the support for moscow, and that was of military hardway and know how as russians will continue to treat the military of molly in order to be able to fight this figure on it, so of course that might be just too much good news for the west and political advisors, sedans, rapids support forces, commented on the 3rd party mediat

the lead wagner's been reduced to now my grand cravings. they could do in russia, who's interested back in a group defend, is involved in the hell region that helping those countries, both the security as well as the hardway, in terms of defending themselves against the numerous amount of rebel groups that continue to terrorize their collective countries. and the region all the while claiming large sweets of land avail when minister was here in the continent, he expressed the fact that molly will continue to receive the support from moscow, and that was of military hardway and know how, as russians will continue to train the military of molly in order to be able to fight this is a failure on it. so of course that might be just too much good news for the way i got it. will it had a lot of be drawn back a political adviser for sid and rapids support forces said the opposition group is open to peace talks, but with conditions put it in a manner. and it was a, you don't mind considering mediation, all we ask from the mediators is that they do n

pkp and supplied weapons to wagner’s pkp, russia, in principle, it is quite let’s say that it hasestablishing relations with sudan for many years, it is trying to intensify and strengthen in the region because it has its own interests, this is the already mentioned gold eh, it is also control over the horn of africa over the red sea and the desire to get it eh russia considers getting a naval base in the port of sudan actually and that is why this country is quite large for it, it is also somewhere the exit to the red sea to control an important transport artery, negotiations are currently underway about this base, but for sure for now let’s say that they have already approved it, but completely information that the construction will be for sure it is not there yet. actually, although this conflict is so, let's say, internal, but this conflict can play quite well on the movement of russia, and if , again, there is no transition to civilian power, the country will become more and more it will be impossible to slip into the orbit of russia's influence, since it will be impossible to

, i want to talk wagner, the wagners all supported bashir at one time, yes, when there were democratictests, then they supported the coup in october 21st , literally fresh information from the dryzhdarian united states secretary anthony blinken said that he was overwhelmed by the possible involvement of the group in the events in the country, let's listen deeply now are concerned about the participation of the wagner command under the leadership of prigozhin in the events in sudan and many other african countries , the structure of whose actions bring even more deaths and destruction so about the wagner command journalists from the american cnn found routes for the export of sudanese gold overland to the neighboring central african republic, where the wagnerites control uh, also mineral deposits , yes, the bbc investigation and the bike evidence that the russians trained the sudanese military, we already said that the russians support none and possibly all parties, but what in your opinion, which side of the current conflict is closer to them, general burkhan or khameti or the one who

and 'ust the case of wagner, i would say. and just expand — the case of wagner, i would say.factor here. well, wagner has been in sudan since 2017.— been in sudan since 2017. first, they were _ been in sudan since 2017. first, they were brought _ been in sudan since 2017. first, they were brought by _ been in sudan since 2017. first, they were brought by omar - been in sudan since 2017. first, they were brought by omar al—bashir. he went _ they were brought by omar al—bashir. he went to— they were brought by omar al—bashir. he went to moscow in 2017 to forge this alliance between russia and sudan _ this alliance between russia and sudan. with the clear objective of building _ sudan. with the clear objective of building a — sudan. with the clear objective of building a military base in sudan. but also — building a military base in sudan. but also at — building a military base in sudan. but also at the same time, in exchange _ but also at the same time, in exchange of mining concessions in the gold _ exchange of mining concessions in the gold mines areas. and interestingly, at

the wagner group in saddam, it's in so many different countries in africa. an element that when it's engaged, simply brings more death and destruction because it's a lug nut at the s 4 wagner. it is a private military company. we have repeatedly talked about this with the central african republic. molly, so done, and others whose government sterns of such services have the right to do so. if you are concerned about this, look on the internet for the number of private military companies in the u. s. u. k . and france. there are dozens of them. and many of them have worked on the borders with russia, including inside ukraine. labor in human rights lawyer, danko valley believes that washington is simply annoyed, that african countries are turning to wagner for help. instead of the us. it means to be a sovereign country. you can choose your friends. you can choose your economic partners and you can choose your military partners. i mean, every country has a right to do that. and while again, the west may be upset that they are not the ones being called upon. mayb

troops from bachmut if the russian military command does not provide more munitions of mercenary wagnernote that these threats, they say , indicate that prigozhin fears that russian positions in the rear of bakhmut are vulnerable for counter-attacks, in one of his interviews with a russian propagandist, prigozhin said that wagner's mercenaries would continue to fight in bakhmut , but would be forced to retreat in an organized manner or stay and die if the situation did not improve separately. the delay in the advancement of ukrainian forces in bakhmut, prigozhin's mention of surovik , it is likely that i will try to publicly unite with surovik because the current chief of the general staff of the russian federation, valery gerasimov is losing putin's favor, the report notes. well, it's actually interesting that the national guard says the epicenter is maryinka and traditionally bakhmut, but we remember that in recent weeks there has been special pressure and we studied the situation in avdiivka as well. we will ask vitaly barabash, the head of the avdiiv city civil service the administr

how is the scaling of practice, which scales or vk wagner well, it brought some happiness to ours, itto fight for money sooner or later it will end eh, there is still no fanaticism, so if it is too early to talk about the end of wagner’s dude under bakhmut and on the other hand, on the wire of happiness , at least at some moments, the russians shoot themselves in the foot in order to mobilize additional resources for waging war against us. and there is a story that the counteroffensive of ukraine should take place . well , we have statements there or american partners or our officials in the coming weeks in order to have time to take advantage of this window of opportunity. well, it’s new, not new, but at least it’s clearly visible the tactics of the russians, when they, uh, rush there with all their might, we all use our means of fire on some one block, literally, and try to clear it as much as possible and then go there er, what does this indicate that the russians? well, there is no shortage of them. he complained for a while. he walked around for some time. he was a beauty. they d

wagner what positions? resistant, well, how do you understand the guarantee?nally cannot do something to the fighters of the private military company wagner. i spoke with the paratroopers who operate on flank directions. in particular , the paratroopers are working on the right flank. and the fighters of the tula division are there, firstly, well , they treat their own tasks with full responsibility, they understand what is at stake, they understand. and what task do they perform and work in close cooperation with the attack aircraft of the wagner group with the commanders of the wagner a group in this sense, but they conduct constant fire from artillery, the front line controls. but in fact, they understand their tactical depth and what is happening, and with other formations. our group didn't work. there is nothing special for me to say here, but i emphasized that between hmm the fighters of the wagner private military company and the commanders, as well as paratroopers, for example, uh, horizontal interaction has been established and an understanding of the

i mean there's a mix belief whether the wagner group is ringing. you're saying in, in that region whether wagner group is ring stability or not, and is this why the c p c is the thing. and this why they try to blame the wagner group of killing these 9 chinese miners. a good one. most of the international people that they want to have done, but actually have a government is funding the group plan for her gather to meet president emanuel michael on who was on a tuesday. police pushed back them as a, as a still on the course barricades determined to be heard by the nation's highest official. progressive grip frogs in january, when the government, due to raise the retirement age by 2 years. by us move on to other parts of the world. packing songs form is set to go to india to take part in next month meeting of the shanghai corporation organization in go up. now that's according to the statement just released by is of about the event tomorrow. the 1st visit of a package on the senior official to india in nearly a decade. relations between those neighbor

they take wagner not only and fill them not only with convicts, but they fill them.course, we are mobilized conscripts, that is, for reinforcements , let's say this summer and directed to this so-called special operation against the russians themselves because, but in fact, no one believed in it, everyone just it was laughed at and i analyzed the factories including the russians, well, no public, in fact, in the comments there, when people say that, no one seriously believed it, because it is absolutely obvious to all of you that the children of the kremlin elite are completely and permanently abroad. the kremlin elite does not exist at all, does not see its existence that's why in the russian federation they keep money in foreign banks , the property of them is ordered abroad by the russian federation, mostly to the european union, for joint ventures that belong to other people. by the russian federation well, of course, i would like to see at least one son or daughter of a high-ranking official from the kremlin who would study, let's say even in moscow, not all of

in this post from wagner's press office they issued the statement which says...hese men inside the town. again, we have geo—located these photographs. this one was taken at the western exit of krasna hora, and this one from within the town. this is outside the construction factory and put them down here on the south—western edge of the town. now, many of these men who were fighting for wagner at this time in eastern ukraine were former russian convicts who were offered pardons if they served and survived six months. in the past week some have returned to russia, but many have not. there are russian mothers and wives posting photographs on telegram of loved ones who have simply disappeared, and in february, around the same time 0leksandr�*s body was returned to his family, there was a film from novosibirsk in russia of scores of these unnamed coffins that had been returned from the same battle. many were killed — many were killed — and some were captured. 0ur colleague 0lga malchevska has spoken to the prosecutor general of ukraine about his investigation. russian

as for wagner, it is a private military company. we have repeatedly talked about this with the central african republic, molly, so dun and others whose government sterns of such services have the right to do so . if you are concerned about this, look on the internet for the number of private military companies in the u. s. u. k and france, there are dozens of them. and many of them have worked on the borders with russia, including inside ukraine. the laura nestles cross live now to researcher at the wits center for diversity studies, william moffatt, who joins us from johannesburg. thanks so much for joining us on the program today . now let's start with those latest comments from antony blinkin. why do you think that the u. s. secretary of state is so critical of the wagner group? and do you think that his assessment is fair at all? thank you for having me in this program. good evening. i think secretary clinton speaks from the context of intense geopolitical, but i got put it to and from it it had to then that american thinking an

you know, they wagner has had a voice in burkina faso for well over a year. there was some of the source reporting yesterday about a possible camp burkina faso, but we're hearing it was from 1550 people. so it's relatively small presence. we met russian fighters from the wagner group in 2018 in the central african republic . their operations have since spread from mozambique sudan to malia. now burkina faso. the 2 countries used to rely on their former colonial power, france to help them fight on groups linked to isis and al qaeda. but that military cooperation was brought to an end after the russian forces arrived. what wagner is doing in africa, is an extension of moscow's policy in the region established a foot whole for, for russia, displaced the influence of the west bracken foster's military. ginger says it has lost control of 40 percent of the national territory to armed groups on, on national television. a mass mobilization has been announced. the gent, i can now cease citizens, vehicles and properties akin also some in men and women above the age of

there is currently not a single wagner, p. m. c fighter and sudan. i emphasize, there was not a single one. it has been this way already for more than 2 years. there have not been any wagner fighter since who don for 2 years and there were none today. various british media outlets from the daily mail to the times have released reports claiming to link the wagner group to the chaos and sudan wagner, members have been deployed in parts of africa to fight against insurgents and terrorist and actions coordinated by local governments. it's fighters have served as instructors for the armed forces of the central african republic, as well as molly, and have also conducted counterterrorism. operations in the region. ukraine's foreign minister has reject it, or rocks offered to help negotiate peace between ki evan moscow. but at the same time claimed no other nations want peace more than you crane. to understand the difference between ukraine and russia is very simple. ukraine wants peace and russia once war. and there is no other country in the world. said on

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when we have it like that, eh, wagner is perceived as something separate, and it is as if the regularas a whole is withdrawn from under attack of the russian federation, as if they are so completely autonomous from each other, one or two groups, er, how to avoid this, er, this separation of wagner and the regular russian army, and to make the world understand that in general , russia, its leadership and its military machine from they are guilty in every way for what is happening, there is a very simple solution in general for determining those who qualify as a member of the wagner pvk or the armed forces of russia or some volunteer wives or the so-called army dnr lnr or something else, there is one definition, it is competent that is, according to the standards of international humanitarian law, they are competent who have taken up arms, who participate in an armed conflict, and accordingly, they have the same rights and the same limit of responsibility as all combatants, regardless of their status. is he registered as a member of the armed forces or is he a representative of the arme

in principle, there is probably someone who can lead the wagner dude.he question is that the very function of this structure, that is, putin's government, it stepped on its own throat when they started to launch this power structure in general, because , after all, in russia, the monopoly on violence was held only by the power of the fsb, the army of the national guard, and so on, it appeared here this one a gray structure that is unknown, in which it is subordinated to, how it works and in the end what will be the consequences of its work . and yes, it is worth attention in principle because this gray structure will most likely be one of the participants in the participants of the future civil war i am not in the russian federation, i think that it is quite possible that it will be a participant in the redistribution of e-e property in the russian federation because either, well, such racketeers, you know how it was in the 90s, but already in such a large format, putin is playing wagner. i agree with mr. tzubulko as he's such a bully that he's been pla

and legal research, was with us on the direct line, the mass burial of mercenaries, you from the wagners discovered at the gusino brod cemetery in russia's novosibirsk. this is reported by the radio liberty sibir reality project, the journalist published a video that they received from from an unnamed source, i will add that the russian publication taiga confirms the autoticity of the video burial of dozens of graves of those who died judging by the tombstones in the period from november 2022 to january 23 on most wreaths with the image of a yellow star and a black cross well, this is one of the symbols of the communist party wagner ivan preobrazhenskyi, a russian political scientist from prague, an expert on central eastern europe joins our broadcast ivan good evening i greet you, you know, today they talked about it at the institute for the study of war, she spoke about the fact that prigozhin most likely regained the loyalty of the kremlin. and how do you think this corresponds to reality and what could lead to it? the end and this is evidenced, for example, by his statement today th

here i served in the wagner pvk, it's not like that. corpses are thousands of corpses, you're walking, you're crawling because to someone he was just a human . here i have eight dead people from the group, and the group is only 10 people, imagine the scale, oh, the scale , go back, go back is not an option , when you go on the attack, there is a lot of talk about what they shoot their own, there is such a thing, well, i personally have not encountered this, but the rumors must be such, but how justified i am not ready to talk about it, because i personally did not encounter this , because the universes became numerous. there are all because the history of the ussr during the great patriotic war says that the former prisoners do not have a rosy reception . and in the homeland, of course, there are fears and apprehensions, we do not know what will happen. i do not know what will happen. ammunition without weapons, maybe the contract will end and we will go home, we don’t know, we can only assume that everything is in the hands of god, as