recently, the owner of pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhin said that in the near future youtube will be bannedka, however, as russia is rapidly approaching north korea-level freedom of speech, youtube in russia will be closed in the near future, and those who violate the ban will be punished such threats were poured out to fellow citizens by the owner of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhin video holstering he called the information plague and those who are against the traitors of their people of the previous and future generations if they didn't break their teeth scumbags who pretend to participate but in fact interfere with us in a special operation, wear russian flags, nada, but place relatives abroad and go to dubai to play golf in the near future youtube will be closed and those who actively use it will be found and punished what made youtube so displeased? it turns out to be russophobia. prigozhin is sure that half of the content is directed against russia, and really, why does the federation need to know an alternative opinion to the kremlin ? youtube and this internet russians do n’t need

after unsuccessful attempts to capture bakhmut, the owner of the private military company wagner yevgeny prigozhin lost power and authority in the eyes of putin, now he wants to shift the emphasis back to the regular russian army, the institute for the study of war reported according to analysts, the kremlin dictator appealed to him and army general serhiy surovikin so that the former would conquer as much territory as possible and the latter would morally break the ukrainians en masse with missile attacks, both attempts failed, because prigozhin's attempts to capture bakhmut ended, and surovikin's air campaign did nothing more than cause suffering to ukrainian civilians, using up most of the russian stockpile of high-precision missiles, american experts say the enemy continues to suffer significant losses, so the city hospital of the dnipro-rud zaporizhzhya region is full of wounded occupiers only recently, about 150 russian soldiers were delivered, it was reported at the general headquarters at the same time there noted that the majority of the hospital staff refused to cooperate with the occupi

statement after announcing full control over soledar the owner of a private military company, wagner yevgeny prigozhin state and propagandists are trying to pretend that some part of our city is part of a city almost completely destroyed by the occupiers, as if it is some product of russia, they will and are already serving it to their society in order to support mobilization, to give hope to those who for aggression , the border service of ukraine released a video of how explosively our defenders meet the wagnerites in soledar together with the units of one of the mechanized brigades of the armed forces of ukraine restrained the enemy's offensive on soledar, ukrainian air reconnaissance exposed a group of enemy infantry, this was immediately known to the command post of the defense forces, aerial reconnaissance tracked the enemy in real time, when the wagnerites approached the position of the ukrainian defenders, they were covered by cross fire from large-caliber machine guns and finally, the invaders were hit by artillery, which was also corrected by the drone of the border guards. the battles for s

russian army that attacked druzhkivka, why did the leader of the private military campaign, wagner yevgeny prigozhin, publicly admit that he cannot capture bakhmut, what happened, what is the purpose of such a confession, and the central bank of russia offers to distribute subpoenas directly in russian banks and the security service of ukraine , meanwhile, announced the suspicion of the head of the russian smuggling bank lviv, iryna biolnyi, what are the chances that she will end up on the dock together with the war criminals, we will talk soon. the ministry of defense of russia officially confirmed that it was the russian army that struck the girlfriends in the donetsk region. they claim that they struck a cluster of military equipment near the railway station of the city and even reported the destruction of himers systems. on the evening of january 2, the russian military launched two missile strikes at the girlfriends one rocket hit the center of the city, another hit the village of yakovlivka. as a result, the altair ice arena was destroyed. the arena was the home ground of the donbas hockey clu

according to analysts, the founder of the communist party of the soviet union, wagner yevgeny prigozhinoming more and more bold in his verbal attacks on the russian ministry of defense. on january 18, he criticized the ministry of defense's new instructions for the russian military in ukraine. because the latter began to set stricter requirements for the standards of care for the occupiers, in turn prigozhyn defended the occupiers who do not follow the standards of self-care in addition, putin's cook criticized officials detached from life, as well as the administration of the president, in turn, putin decided not to resort to censorship regarding such statements, according to military experts, the speech of the head of the kremlin in honor of the breakthrough of the blockade of leningrad by soviet troops showed that he remains unsure of his abilities significantly to influence the russian information space thank you dmytro vasylev - he is a political scientist, he joins our broadcast p dmytro greetings to you good night good night i congratulate you, i congratulate you, the confrontati

suffered heavy losses while the founders one of the leaders of the private military campaign wagner yevgeny prigozhin found an explanation why terrorists cannot take bakhmut let's hear it and the main question for everyone, yes, when you take artemovsk, artemovsk is a fortress in every house. and therefore, for every house, the guys are never searched for one day . they took the house, they took the third house, they took what happened, baron, and i will tell you what it is, break through the defenses, break through the defenses. this morning , one house took a break through the baron . если сказать 500 верное ошибёт, as they say, in fear, the eyes are big well, it's about the same well, priozhen meant that each and every house is a fortress, if there are 500 houses, it means 500 lines of defense according to your e-e, why the russians, why the russians complain that they cannot take bakhmut well, of course, we owe it to the armed forces of ukraine and we understand why it is a-and it is for the russian army, what does it mean for the russian army not to take bakhmut well, let's start with the fact t

one of the leaders of the private military campaign, wagner yevgeny prigozhin, found an explanation whyrorists cannot take bakhmut. one day, sometimes , for one house, one house was taken, the second house was taken, the third house was taken . and behind this house, there are even new defenses, that’s right, and not just one defense, and such a line of defenses . it's a fortress, if there are 500 houses there, it means 500 lines of defense according to your uh-uh why uh-uh russians uh-uh why do the russians complain that they can't take bakhmut well of course we owe it to the armed forces of ukraine and we understand why a-and it's for of the russian army, what does it mean for the russian army not to take bakhmut, well, let's start with the fact that prigozhin is lying. well, as usual, this is not news, and i will explain why he is lying. the fact is that now the whole of bakhmut, including the industrial zone, is controlled by ukrainian forces, and this happened about two weeks ago, when the last industrial areas of bahmut were liberated in the eastern phase of this section of the fr

public news kherson to break through the ukrainian defense this is how the head of the ppc wagner yevgeny prigozhinlures of his subordinates in the media this is what it says in the report of the institute for the study of war, experts believe that prigozhin wants to shift the blame to the russian ministry of defense, while earlier he reported that in the bakhmut area his mercenaries are advancing daily on 100-200 m and despite the constant shelling of attempted assaults, our defenders find the opportunity and mood to celebrate the new year. christmas on the front lines, reporting by daryna kolomiets, the front line, the bakhmut direction . holidays and new year and christmas, beauty, i have a side. well, i'm white, that's great. the commander of the battery of the tenth brigade, oleksandr, with his deputy andriy, decorate the dugout of their unit on in the direction of bakhmut, ukraine is protected for three months by fighters from different parts of the country, in particular andriy from occupied melitopol, he has a family left there, he will finish the war , buy a house in melitopol, of course,

federation on the night of wednesday, the founder of the communist party of the soviet union wagner yevgeny prigozhinat his units were taken as if soledar under complete control, well, a video appeared where prigozhin walks through the dungeons, he will tell that these are salt mines in soledar from above, ukrainian troops are here and that's all, prigozhin also stated that no other russian troops, except for the wagner air force, are fighting in the center of the city of soledar. and on wednesday morning, the spokesman of the ministry of defense of the russian federation, konashenko, contradicted himself by saying that the units of the airborne forces yy were blocked by soldiers from the northern and southern parts of the city and stormtroopers are fighting in the city , that is, there is no control, but there is, because there is in the city, and there are not only prigozhina fighters fighting there, but it’s like they were expelled and that ’s it, the press secretary of the president of the russian federation, dmytro puskov, about the capture of soledar, he also said yes, without too much extravag

witnessed the murder such a cities in ukraine, committed in the name of his ex boss, wagner oligarch, yevgeny prigozhin, and he wants to tell. russians killing russians, some of them former prisoners freed from russian jails to fight for wagner. [sound of gunfire] [speaking non-english] >> translator: i know cases where prisoners were demonstrably shot dead for refusing to fight over betrayal. they were showing fighters here, this is what will happen to you. >> he says he joined wagner in july last year, signed up for four months, fought near bakhmut in eastern ukraine, [sound of artillery] but when prigozhin began recruiting former prisoners to wagner's ranks, medvedev saw a deadly change, wanted out of his contract ended but was not allowed to quit. [speaking non-english] >> translator: since the moment that the prisoners have come to serve us strange things in murders at their own of recruited prisoners by the wagner security service simpler orders to send us to die by cannon fier started to happen. >> he is the highest ranking wagner fighter to flee to the west. his eyewitness account of prigozhin'

witnessed the murderous atrocities in ukraine committed in the name of his ex-boss, wagner oligarch yevgeny prigozhinwants to tell all. russians killing russians, some of them former prisoners freed from russian jails to fight for wagner. [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: i know cases where prisoners were demonstratively shot dead for refusing to fight. here, this is what will happen to you. >> reporter: he says he joined wagner in july last year, signed up for four months, fought near bakhmut in eastern ukraine. but when prigozhin began recruiting former prisoners to swell wagner's ranks, medvedev saw a deadly change. wanted out as his contract ended but wasn't allowed to quit. [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: since the moment the prisoners have come to serve with us strange things and murders of their own recruited prisoners by the wagner service and foolish orders start to happen to die as cannon fodder. >> reporter: he is the highest ranking wagner fighter to flee to the west. his eyewitness account of prigozhin's murderous practices in ukraine is revelatory. >> he is really a target

but he is a person that the wagner group chief yevgeny prigozhin has displayed publicly. and now suddenly the person who hasn't, you know, has sort of been his nemesis on this is getting this big promotion. what does this mean? >> it means a couple of things. one thing it mean that's by promoting the chief of staff of the army to the position of a field commander, essentially running the show, you can't any more call this a nonwar. you can't call it a special operation. it's a real war, and it's come out finally. second thing is that putin has been between two power -- he's in the middle of a power struggle. and prigozhin actually showed his teeth. he showed that he wants a piece of the action, wants to be in power. but putin ultimately had to take the side of the anti-prigozhin establishment, which is the ma military establishment team. and now you see both sides are now upset with this outcome. and prigozhin is going to do something more, i think, to claim power. >> so we should be watching that? >> yeah, in the next couple of days i think there will be more lashing out

recently, some talking heads have challenged themselves as generals and marchers of the wagner company yevgeny prigozhin. this parallelism, which has existed in the russian army for quite a long time, when there are official commanders and there are commanders of private military companies who try to compete with the same shoigu gerasim or surovikin, what does this indicate, that is, putin specifically makes these two different fields and launches the leaders of these two different fields so that they compete with each other is this a common practice which also left from the soviet union where there was official politics and unofficial where there was an official economy where there was a shadow economy where there was an official government and where there was a government of crisis people with a criminal past who also created a parallel world and a parallel state that divides its own, this is one of the slogans of any autocrat, because putin took himself already as a tsarium and performs such tasks. in order for this plumb line not to be greater than his own weight, he begins to divide the army itself

situation in soledar on pro-russian telegram channels, and we ourselves, the founder of the wagner pvk yevgeny prigozhinhat soledar is allegedly captured by ukrainian as of this evening, the general staff refutes and denies this information. next, we will show you a video that was filmed by journalists of the british tv channel sky yesterday, january 12. it shows how is the fighting going on in soledar, look at the close combats, we have gunshot wounds, there are shrapnel wounds from grenades, and so on, the number of such wounds has increased, radio svoboda correspondent maryan kushnir maryana joined our broadcast. good evening, i will tell our viewers what you were in today soledar district in the direction of bakhmut, did you notice that the armed forces of ukraine are leaving the city? let's put it this way, the armed forces of ukraine are always moving. reports of all nns, this is a normal movement of troops that can be found regularly at the front . yes, i saw how various armored personnel carriers move, and suspicions are seen, i even saw journalists who also saw it, but to talk about the fact th

kirby could you explain what crime was committed by pvk wagner sincerely yevgeny prigozhin it is unlikely prigozhin would be honored in washington with a personal answer if reporters hadn't asked about it at a briefing from the state department spokesman at my colleague from the white house appeared after the white house declassified new information about their activities in ukraine, wagner's group received additional support for north korea, this is not to mention the broader context of their destabilizing influence not only in ukraine, but also in africa, new declassified data of american intelligence show that last year in november, prigozhin purchased anti-personnel missiles from north korea, according to john kirby, their number is not capable of significantly to influence the course of the war, nevertheless, the white house is concerned that russia is increasingly finding support among the exiled states . earlier, according to american intelligence, the kremlin already bought artillery shells from pyongyang, and although north korea officially declared that it did not sell weapons t

split in soledar lies in who will receive more laurels for him, the financier of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, claims them, according to analysts of the institute for the study of war, putin's cook used the role wagnerites in capturing the soledar to raise their political authority and indirectly criticize the regular russian army against putin himself. putin does not agree with him. this way the conflict between the kremlin and the reconciled is increasing, according to analysts. until recently, putin received comments on the situation of the soledar, but after the information campaign prigozhina stated in an interview that everything is developing within the framework of the plan of the ministry of defense and the general staff, putin's statement was broadcast live on state television, probably a deliberate attempt to undermine prigozhin's influence in the russian information space, so experts believe kostyantyn moshovets, a military expert, joins our broadcast. kostyantyn good morning. good morning. around soledar and bakhmut, but i would like to understand if the situation develops like t

institute for the study of war do not say that the head of the private military campaign of wagner and yevgeny prigozhinding in your direction from that side of the front is trying to shift the responsibility for the failures in bahmut to the russian ministry of defense, and the americans believe they write that yevhen prigozhin in his report tried to justify the lack of progress of the wagner pvk in bahmut by confirmed the previous assessments of the americans that the russian forces had reached their climax there, the americans note that in an interview with one of the russian media on december 31, prigozhin stated that the wagnerites could not break through the ukrainian defenses in bakhmut. he said that the offensive operations were very tiring because every house in the city is a fortress this is it. dad also told that the ukrainians have defense lines every 10 m, and therefore the russian troops must clear building after building, what do you say about such and such analysis and do they really already understand that it is necessary to make excuses and look for a scapegoat? why is the attack on ba

one of the important points of the suburb, artyomovsk took this, the head of the division wagner yevgeny prigozhin, meanwhile, arrived in rammstein where ukraine's allies will discuss military assistance today, american officials, in turn , told the press that pentagon chief loido austin will try to put pressure on the new minister today. boris’s defense of germany is a story for him to give permission for the transfer of german leopard tanks to ukraine, while the united states itself, putting some pressure on the germans, is not going to include abram tanks in a new package of military assistance independent, supposedly. this is also due to difficulties with logistics and maintenance. at the same time, france is already seriously considering the possibility of transferring kiev tanks, leclerc and nato secretary general for economy. forum in davos, jens stoltenberg directly says that the supply of weapons to ukraine is the only way to peace. it is very important that putin does not win this war said with toltenberg. well, let's continue the so-called economic forum in general, it does not look lik

we know that wagner was just listed as a criminal group by the u.s. government. and yevgeny prigozhinself wrote a letter to the spokesman of the national security council john kirby what the reason was for wagner to be listed as such and what crime they had committed. tonight yevgeny prigozhin is complaining so far he has gotten no answer yet from the biden administration. >> thank you, fred, with all that reporting tonight from ukraine. >>> and now i want to go to the former u.s. ambassador to russia john sullivan. ambassador sullivan, you have met with senior russian officials. at the time when you were meeting with them about this, they sort of acted like they didn't really know who prigozhin was or much about him. what do you read into his incredibly swift ascent to the forefront of this war? >> well, thanks, erin, it's great to be with you. i think it's a reflection of how badly the special military operation has gone for the russian government and the russian military. as you note in the past, prigozhin was someone that the russian government denied was acting on their behalf. w

troops are most actively storming the soledarna of donetsk region, the founder of wagner's communist party, yevgeny prigozhinoledar does not confirm that the city was taken by the ukrainian side, at least at this time, and emphasizes that the fighters of the armed forces of ukraine, who used to defend the city, meanwhile , the maxart technology company published satellite images that show the consequences of the battles in soledar. here you can see how the city looked at the beginning of august i what does soledar look like now, these are the scales of the battles for the city, the battles for soledar in donetsk region have been going on since may or the 22nd of the year and after the capture of severodonetsk and lysychansk of luhansk in july shelling and bombardment of the soledar region have intensified in recent weeks, the fighting in the city has intensified even more . russian mercenaries control part of the city, another part of the ukrainian army. well, here's a comment from the ministry of defense of ukraine: today the heaviest battles continue in the solodar region on the bakhmut direction, despite

front line duty in ukraine and is proving more effective than the regular russian army wagner is led by yevgeny prigozhin, putin's old confidant and one-time chef, who now doesn't shy away from showing up on the battlefield. and tonight there is concern about a russian spy ship spotted off the coast of hawaii. the pentagon believes it is gathering intelligence and is remaining in international waters lester? >> all right richard engel tonight, thank you. >>> google today joined a growing list of tech giants scaling back adding to the tens of thousands of workers in the industry who find themselves unemployed. business and data reporter brian cheung looks at what the layoffs mean for all of us. >> reporter: google parent company alphabet is the latest tech giant to slash its workforce, announcing cuts today of 6%. in an email to employees, the company's ceo said it had hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today. google with 12,000 employees cut joins other big tech companies that ramped up hiring during the pandemic microsoft this week said it would slash about 10,000 workers amazon

today, wagner mercenaries claimed that victory and posted a photo inside what they said is one of soledar's salt mines, with founder yevgeny prigozhinhe claimed the remaining ukrainian resistance was limited in an audio message. yevgeny: wagner units have taken control of the entire territory of soledar. a cauldron has been formed in the center of the city where urban fighting is going on. nick: the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky called that propaganda. pres. zelenskyy: they will present this to their soety to support mobilization and give hope to those who support aggression. but the fighting continues. the donetsk units are holding out. nick: russia's primary local target is bakhmut, where ukrainian resistance is relentless, even with soviet era guns. much of the city of 70,000 is now empty and in ruins. the few who've remained, including 75-year-old olha, constantly reminded of what's been stolen and destroyed. olha: dear god, our town used to be so beautiful. there were roses everywhere, flowers. it was clean. everything was kept in order. nick: and then it's time to go. the shelling gets too close. but olha stands ther

wagner group. the chief yevgeny prigozhin's influence with putin has been surging.this is what prigozhin is now telling convicted criminals who have finished their tours of duty with him about staying out of prison. listen for yourself. >> translator: don't drink a lot, don't use drugs, and don't rape any chicks. keep telling yourselves over and over not to end up in the slammer again. okay? i need you to come back to the war. so don't [ bleep ] up. okay? remember your oaths. >> might need them to come back? the wagner group has been relying on convicts to fight. just listen to this. "the washington post" has reported that 80% of wagner's fighters are convicts. so, let me give you that number a different way. 40,000 convicts out of an army for that private wagner group of 50,000. and those convicts have been dying fast and furiously. just listen to a wagner commander. as of tonight a former commander. as of tonight because he has now defected and he is now seeking asylum in norway. >> translator: every week, they sent more prisoners to us. we lost a lot of men. casu

military continues to struggle in ukraine, president putin is increasingly turning to wagner which is owned by yevgeny prigozhin for military support. we are seeing indications including in intelligence that tensions between wagner and the prussian ministry of defense are increasing. wagner is becoming a rival power center to the russian military and other russian ministries, publicly prigozhin and his fighters have criticized russian generals and defense officials for their performance on the battlefield. prigozhin is trying to advance his own interests in ukraine and wagner is making military decisions based largely, largely on what they will generate for prigozhin in terms of positive publicity. we continue to assess that wagner currently has approximately 50,000 personnel deployed to ukraine including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts. our information indicates the russian defense ministry has reservations about wagner's recruitment methods. despite this we access they will continue to recruit right out of russian prisons due to recent events, we assess that it is likely there are mounting tensions bet

ukrainian army, that is, the armed forces of ukraine actually disposed of the wagner pvk, that is why putin's cook yevgeny prigozhinain went on a tour of russian zones. in search of fresh cannon fodder, he is actively helped by kremlin propaganda, which he sculpts his teeth, so rapists, heroes of the fatherland, how an outspoken criminal has become the new elite of russia , oleksandr melnikov recorded the testimony of a wagnerian who escaped from prigozhin and is hiding in the west yesterday, today the hero of russia is seen as an example where the youth as a criminal of wagner's communist party receives money and fame, this is a real russian roulette, a social cure for rapists and murderers he eats glory eats freedom, we found a person who knows how the largest private army of russia is organized from the inside, unique confessions of a former prisoner and fighter of the communist party wagner i saw in this a chance to start life anew , exclusive facts of the week, you are the superheroes of our time, you are extraordinary priceless fighters , the guard of honor and the medal for courage, cheers , patriotic pictur

army, actually disposed of wagner, that is why putin 's cook yevgeny prigozhin again went on a tour of zones. in search of fresh cannon fodder, he is actively helped by the kremlin propaganda, which sculpts the teeth of rapists of heroes of the fatherland as an outright criminal, became the new elite of russia, oleksandr melnikov recorded the testimony of a man from wagner who escaped from prigozhin and is hiding in the west yesterday zek today the hero of russia is seen as an example for the youth as a criminal pvk wagner gets money and glory is a real russian roulette social elevator for rapists and murderers he eats it glory eats freedom and a guest we found a person who knows how the largest private army of russia is organized from the inside unique confessions of a former convict and pvc fighter wagner i unloaded in this a chance to start life anew exclusive facts of the week, you are the super heroes of our time, you are extraordinary , priceless fighters, the guard of honor and the medal for courage, cheers, the patriotic picture, but there is one nuance, it honors dmytro menshi

and that's why you saw 72 hours ago, the head of the wagner group, that is yevgeny prigozhin, he announced he posted a picture of it with his men underneath, in the salt mines underneath the city, and then he loudly and triumphantly exclaimed that no one else, particularly from the ministry of defense, and this is considered a really insulting broadside against the military authorities in moscow, that no one else had helped him take it. so you know, this is really saying a lot less about the strategy and a lot more about prigozhin's own ambitions. the reason his group has been focusing on this peculiar little town has more to do with him seeing this as a point of ambition for him to rise in the ranks. i've spoken with a ukrainian intelligence official in kyiv about his ambitions. >> he is doing all of this in soledar and bakhmut in order to further his own political ambitions. >> i would say that's the case. in particular, strengthening his position in operators that surround putin. this is his only way to survive in the russian federation. >> reporter: you know, this whole battle has brok

indicate that, despite heavy losses, wagner's fighters continue to pose a threat to the armed forces of ukraine in close combat, and their leader yevgeny prigozhin says that american experts do not lack ambition either on the battlefield or in political plans. grew up, because wagner's group now takes part in the highest battles , for example, for soledar. became one of the fiercest critics of shoigu gerasimov and the official military leadership of the russian federation. there is a feeling that there is a split between the adventurer and wagner on the one hand, on their side also kadyrov and the chechen forces and the regular army of the ministry of defense and the general staff on the other. representatives of the elite , most of whom are inclined to more liberal and less hawkish views, he sees a vulnerability in putin's political position and uses this to increase his political popularity he sees this as a way to enrich himself by obtaining contracts and financial resources for his organization prigozhyn does not hide his illegal actions and grants pardons to prisoners, which legally in russia only the president can do, he publicly mocks the

this man was instrumental: yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the russian mercenary group wagner, filmed russian prison recruiting convicts to fight on the front line in soledar and bakhmut. in this video, prigozhin congratulates the first batch of returning fighters. "you finished your contract with honor," he said. "don't drink, don't use drugs, or rape women." ukrainian military analyst oleksandr kovalenko says arming hardened criminals has created the risk of even more battlefield atrocities. "with those convicts, prigozhin can commit any crime he thinks necessary to win the battle," he said. "all he's done is build a blood business." already, he told us, they've seen an increase in war crimes in the areas where wagner is fighting. prigozhin has been outspoken in his criticism of senior russian military leaders, and their losses on the battlefield, including putin's newly- appointed general in charge of the war, valery geronimov. norah. >> o'donnell: debora patta, tonight thank you. and in tonight's "health watch," as many as 20% of our military veterans from the wars in iraq and afg

notorious wagner group so he could override sanctions and hire uk lawyers to sue a britishjournalist, according to an explosive investigation from the website opendemocracy. yevgeny prigozhinmocracy reveals that up to that point, the british government had granted licences for a british law firm to work on the case gave permission for his british lawyers to fly to st petersburg so they could him meet face—to—face to launch a legal attack on higgins and allowed prigozhin to pay the london lawyers directly via wire transfer from russia. it is now claimed that he'd launched the case to try and thwart the sanctions imposed upon him. i have been speaking to the former head of mi6's russia desk and our regular panelist christopher steele. interestingly, we don't know a great deal about prigozhin pre—2011t when the first russian occupation of parts of ukraine took place. he came to prominence really during the sort of american and after the 2016 presidential election, when the internet service that he was running in russia was accused of having been the main or one of the main organs spouting disinformation into the american electoral system and influencing the outcome. subsequen

yevgeny prigozhin. he is the ultimate beneficiary of the private military company wagner . there is, after all, the largest deposit on the european continent in the solidary area, and in the bakhmut area, accordingly, there are incredible reserves of gypsum of course, under certain conditions, prigorne expects to control these objects, and that is why he is including such a huge amount of effort to take control of these two ukrainian troops, not cities, not everything at the same time, with frantic losses. to make bloody money, i think not. well, then the question is, what exactly is the lack of the ukrainian military to repulse this attack so resolutely, that is, i mean specifically, it is a lack of weapons, it is a lack of ammunition, it is something very, very unequal the balance of forces or some other factors , after all, the fighting there lasts for six months. it would seem that on such a small, small section of the front, i will, with your permission, start enough . seven large arsenals, the largest on the territory of ukraine, where ammunition was stored , including where a missile for rocket syst

they're from a private military group called wagner, a network of mercenaries who do a lot of russia's fighting. its boss, yevgeny prigozhinom russian jails, and they've been spearheading the attack on soledar, claiming to now be in full control. we chat to one ukrainian soldier on the front to see if that's the case. don't believe russian propaganda. it's not true. bakhmut and soledar have ukrainian control. kyiv has described the battle for soledar and bakhmut as the bloodiest scenario yet. and that's all we can say with real certainty. small amounts of territory are being fiercely fought over, and the human cost is huge. but the kremlin is less keen to acknowledge that, instead accusing ukraine of exaggerating the situation to secure more military support, which is continuing to arrive. on a visit to western ukraine, poland's president duda is the latest to announce the supply of tanks. volodymyr zelensky wants more to follow suit. in russia, there seems to be division. the kremlin claims there is still fighting in soledar, at odds with wagner's take. translation: i understand that the situation in - the new entities is

army, they are from the private military group wagner, a network of mercenaries that participate in many hostilities of russia, the leader yevgeny prigozhin's group recently recruited prisoners from russian prisons, the wagnerites led the attack on soledar and assure that they now have complete control over it. we are talking to one of the ukrainian soldiers at the front to find out if this is true. propaganda, don't believe russian propaganda, it's not true, bakhmut soledar is under ukrainian control. a-a ukrainian control kyiv describes the battle for soledar and bakhmut as the bloodiest scenario and this is all that can be said with full confidence fierce battles are being fought for small territories and human the losses are huge, but the kremlin is less willing to admit it, instead it accuses ukraine of exaggerating the situation in order to get more military support, the support that continues to come during a visit to western ukraine , polish president duda announced the supply of tanks, volodymyr zelenskyy wants this example to be followed more in the meantime in russia a similar split. the kremlin claims that fighting is still goin

they're from a private military group called wagner, a network of mercenaries who do a lot of russia's fighting. its boss, yevgeny prigozhinrecently recruited convicts from russianjails, and they've been spearheading the attack on soledar, claiming to now be in full control. we chat to one ukrainian soldier on the front to see if that's the case. don't believe russian propaganda. it's not true. bakhmut and soledar have ukrainian control. kyiv has described the battle for soledar and bakhmut as the bloodiest scenario yet. and that's all we can say with real certainty. small amounts of territory are being fiercely fought over and the human cost is huge. but the kremlin is less keen to acknowledge that, instead accusing ukraine of exaggerating the situation to secure more military support, which is continuing to arrive. on a visit to western ukraine, poland's president duda is the latest to announce the supply of tanks. volodymyr zelensky wants more to follow suit. in russia, there seems to be division. the kremlin claims there is still fighting in soledar, at odds with wagner's take. translation: i understand that the situat

they are from a private military group called wagner, a network of mercenaries who do a lot of russia's fighting. its boss, yevgeny prigozhin they've been spearheading the attack on soledar, claiming to now be in full control. we chat to one ukrainian soldier on the front to see if that's the case. don't believe russian propaganda. it's not true. bakhmut and soledar have ukrainian control. kyiv has described the battle for soledar and bakhmut as the bloodiest scenario yet. and that's all we can say with real certainty. small amounts of territory are being fiercely fought over, and the human cost is huge. but the kremlin is less keen to acknowledge that, instead accusing ukraine of exaggerating the situation to secure more military support, which is continuing to arrive. on a visit to western ukraine, poland's president duda is the latest to announce the supply of tanks. volodymyr zelensky wants more to follow suit. in russia, there seems to be division. the kremlin claims there is still fighting in soledar, at odds with wagner's take. translation: i understand that the situation in the new entity is difficult and hostilitie

they're from a private military group called wagner, a network of mercenaries who do a lot of russia's fighting. its boss, yevgeny prigozhin, has recently recruited convicts from russianjails, and they've been spearheading the attack on soledar, claiming to now be in full control. we chat to one ukrainian soldier on the front to see if that's the case. don't believe russian propaganda. it's not true. bakhmut and soledar have ukrainian control. kyiv has described the battle for soledar and bakhmut as the bloodiest scenario yet. and that's all we can say with real certainty. small amounts of territory are being fiercely fought over and the human cost is huge. but the kremlin is less keen to acknowledge that, instead accusing ukraine of exaggerating the situation to secure more military support, which is continuing to arrive. on a visit to western ukraine, poland's president duda is the latest to announce the supply of tanks. volodymyr zelensky wants more to follow suit. in russia, there seems to be division. the kremlin claims there is still fighting in soledar, at odds with wagner's take. translation: i understand that the

mercenaries from a private military firm called the wagner group, a network which does a lot of russia's fighting. it's run by this man, yevgeny prigozhinvladimir putin. from one of soledar�*s salt mines, on russian state tv, he claimed to have completely taken the town. "ukrainians are probablyjust above us," they say. "let's go and find them." he's recently recruited convicts from russia's jails, offering them freedom for six months service. his take on the invasion was today undercut by russia's defence ministry, which reported ongoing battles in soledar. from the heart of the fighting, it's extremely difficult to verify claims from both sides. soledar and the nearby city bakhmut are more significant for russia, which is why they are throwing everything at it. so all we can say with any certainty is that minimal gains are coming with enormous costs. ukraine is adamant it's holding the line. 0ne soldier on the front tells us about the threat posed by the mercenaries. the wagner army has a little bit better equipment. yes, they have a new gun machine. they don't value lives, yes, of soldiers. kyiv has acknowledged difficulties, but it'

with moscow's faltering campaign, wagner have very much started to take centre stage and yevgeny prigozhiner territory around the city of kherson and we are in a phase now where they are throwing everything at a very near term goalfor vladimir putin to have some kind of trophy for critics backin have some kind of trophy for critics back in russia. the human costs of trying to get this goal are great. and look at the language of volodymyr zelensky. and look at the language of volodymyrzelensky. he and look at the language of volodymyr zelensky. he has talked about having to make the right decision in the town of soledar. i wouldn't be surprised if we saw a tactical retreat whilst his forces look to inflict maximum casualties on russian forces. we have seen it before when the ukraine army has lost counter offences elsewhere. it's a fast—moving situation with the locals and two british men caught in the middle of it. james waterhouse. _ caught in the middle of it. james waterhouse, thank _ caught in the middle of it. james waterhouse, thank you. - a swedish mining company says it's found euro

the private military company wagner has already graduated well, to put it mildly, she graduated because we know what their leader was putin's former cook yevgeny prigozhino served these six months survived these six months are returning home with all criminal records removed from them. let's see how prigozhin escorted his pupils in black bags . первых первый первый yes, they worked because few people are working. that's the plan, that's it. they'll turn back. do you want to go back to do business? the boss doesn't work at night. it's life. five, i think. we're waiting. yes, of course . we'll come back, we don't drink drugs, we don't use women, we didn't carry them, and yes, there's no akurim, the police should treat you with respect , a day ago he escorted the same wagnerites, as you rightly noted in the black bags. and these are the ones who survived, he escorts them out. well, he's still there there is another part of the video where he says that if there are any problems, i will personally call the governor, but given the experience of the private military company wagner in the current war, the existence of some parallel army, the existence of some p

into the private military company wagner has already graduated . to put it mildly, she graduated because we know what their leader was putin's former cook yevgeny prigozhinserved these six months survived these six months and are returning home with all their criminal records cleared. let's see how prigozhin escorted his pupils in black bags . перхух первый первый yes, they worked because few people work for the fate of the bank, probably 20 will return, 90 will not work anymore, this life is 5 , you are counting ten, of course, we will return. nasyluet yes, there is no akurim, the police should treat you with respect. a day ago, he escorted the same wagnerites. as you correctly noted in the black bags. and these are the survivors, he escorts them. well, there is another part of the video where he says if there will be any problems, i will personally call the governor, but in view of this experience of the private military company wagner in the current war, the existence of some parallel army, the existence of some parallel command, the existence of a command that opposes the general to the headquarters of the minister of defense of the russian federatio

this picture — believed to be of wagner group soldiers inside a salt mine in soledar was released earlier today with the group's head, yevgeny prigozhinledar— from the town's northern and southern parts. the russian aerospace forces are delivering strikes at enemy strongholds. assault groups are engaged in battle in the town. we've also heard from president zelensky. translation: now that terrorist i state and its propaganda are trying to pretend that some part of our city of soledar, a city that was almost completely destroyed by the occupiers, is allegedly some kind of russia's achievement. they will present and are already presenting this to their society in such a way as to support mobilisation and to give hope to those who support aggression. but the fighting continues. ukraine's deputy defence minister has said russia failed to capture soledar. and here's president zelensky�*s adviser. translation: everything that is happening today i in the direction of bakhmut or- soledar is the bloodiest scenario of this war that is, we see, absolutely such an irresponsible attitude of. the russian elite towards their military personnel. i th

about 50,000 fighters of the wagner private military campaign are fighting in ukraine, they took part in the battles under bachmut in soledar and in other cities. yevgeny prigozhinitish journalist bbc correspondent freen gardner found out how mercenaries fight in ukraine wachner's troops in action in the east of ukraine claim that they are clearing the city from the nazis, these are private military contractors or mercenaries, they took part in the hottest battles in donbas, these are the teeth of war in such cities as bakhmut and soledar, their headquarters are located in st. petersburg, the same place where putin worked for the kdb, but their forward operating base in molkino is nearby of the russian military-intelligence base when the wagner group invaded crimea in 2014 they were without identification marks people called them little green men they were founded in 2014 apparently on the direct orders of putin and this was a way to send russian military to eastern ukraine while denying their presence and i would say that wagner in many ways represents the quintessence of the potyanite organization since then their activities became large-scale in 2015 they dep

if the notorious wagner group can pull this off, it would be a victory for this private military force. it is run by yevgeny prigozhin. it would be a morale boost for russia. putin's state television is doing a victory lap. here's what they're saying. >> translator: the most striking thing to me was the enormous number of dead ukrainian fighters. of course, i can't talk about statistics and i don't think anyone can really say, but i saw about ten to 15 dead soldiers in the entryway of each building where their troops were holed up. >> translator: the situation in soledar is not easy. the enemy does not reveal themselves because of the artillery fire. so we can't find them. but it's obvious that we've decimated them. >> the defense ministry of russia even posting a message praising the, quote, courageous and selfless actions of the wagner assault squad. because the former military leadership in russia is now in an internal battle against the wagner group led by prigozhin. they're fighting for power. so that sort of congratulations is important. but this all comes down to soledar itself, which has little strategic impo

body was actually found or allegedly found of the two men prigozhin yevgeny prigozhin, who's the head of the russia's mercenary group. wagner two men. the group published documents of the two men, passports and permission to volunteer. but don't know. we don't know yet. we're wishing for the best for the two men, but it's important to well, to stress that these men went over there to volunteer, to evacuate people . volunteer, to evacuate people. they aren't they weren't killed in fighting as the wagner mystery group alleges. danny, thank you very much for that . thank you very much for that. all right. a political all right. it's a political commentator, danny armstrong. this travel over to america now. we're to have a chat with we're going to have a chat with the the politics people the host of the politics people podcast, paul to podcast, paul duddridge. paul to talk to you again. tell us about biden. this some trouble biden. is this some trouble going some documents a going, some documents in a garage something? what garage or something? what happened ? yeah, absolutely . happened? yeah, absolutely. classified documents

yevgeny prigozhin that only chvakovag, therefore, took traces. and another important point when we talk about help is taken for a second. yes, wagnerke a critical role. yes , well, at the same time, is there pmc wagner? this is an open question; enough forces, because after all, these are the unarmed forces of russia, i i understand in order to take in this way, kramatorsk in order to take in this way, slavyansk it’s not a fact that there are such kavagu forces from my point of view, there may not be such, but there are definitely in the russian army. i understand what you want to say now, aleksey gennadievich, there have been changes that must be taken in their entirety, because now we have under command, if we have here, the commander-in-chief of the joint grouping, the chief of the general staff, who is his deputy, surovikin surovikin, was not just at us now, as it were he remains with us the commander of the vks yes, then we have the commander of the ground forces there, the third kim yes, in my opinion, he is there, that is, as if we are doing it under the leadership of gerasim now everyone is gathering. in general, the entire