in this area and the private sector, formerly the head of the private military campaign, wagner yevgeny prigozhine again declared that the mercenaries control the territory of the entire bakhmut, eight strikes were carried out by the ukrainian force defense aircraft in a day on the areas where the occupiers were concentrated our rocket launchers of the artillery troops hit four fir trees of the concentration of weapons and military equipment of the enemy, they also destroyed one ammunition depot and four artillery units, the russians fired three missiles on the territory of ukraine, they also fired more than five dozen times from the air force and more than 40 times from rocket salvo fire systems, the visit of the president ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyi to japan for the g7 summit was a turning point in the game, french president manuel macron said, he assured that france will be with ukraine until the very end, also ukrainian the president held talks with the prime minister of great britain, rishi sunak, the prime minister of italy, giorgi melon, and the prime minister of india, in a fashion show

our defenders from the air command in the east, they were shot down, the leader of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhin demonstrated rows of corpses of wagnerites and barked at the military leadership of the russian federation, a video was published by the press service of him on the video, he comes from a separate room and speaks about the lack of ammunition by 70% and curses the leadership of the ministry of defense and personally the staff of minister shoigu and chief of general valery gerasimov on his opinion, under the conditions of a normal supply of ammunition , there would have been five less mercenaries killed. meanwhile, another 620 russians decided to support the flash mob and burn themselves, our defenders helped them in this, and from since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 193,210 invaders have already returned to soviet land, the defenders have successfully turned into scrap metal 30 cars and tankers, 16 art systems , eight armored combat vehicles, three rocket salvo systems, three units of special equipment, and so many invaders' tanks , in addition, they permanently landed 17 m

southwestern part in the area of ​​the plane let me remind you earlier, the leader of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhind that his mercenaries have begun to leave bakhmut, they will allegedly leave the city completely by june 1 and hand over their positions to the russian army. rear camps, where they will lick their wounds , i.e. rest and look for new mercenaries , putin's chief kosher has made similar statements about exiting the bahamut several times , loudly exploding the temporarily occupied melitopol was in the area of ​​the airfield, mayor ivan fedorov said in the details of the incident. currently, there are no enemy missile carriers in the black sea. russia has taken them to their bases, but there are still six ships on combat duty in azov , one in the mediterranean, and seven ships , one of which is a caliber carrier. a general volley of four rockets as a result of a massive night shelling damaged the network infrastructure in the chernivtsi region . consumers in one of the districts reported to the ministry of energy that due to weather conditions, power was cut off. more than a hundred settle

previously, the head of the private military campaign, wagner yevgeny prigozhin, once again declaredt the mercenaries control the territory of the whole country in spain, an f-18 fighter jet crashed at the air base during the air force exhibition, as reported by the local mass media pilot ejected but was injured the plane was destroyed and to the situation in different regions of our country at night russian terrorists attacked kyiv with kamikaze drones the wreckage of the shahed fell on a nine-story building in the dnipro district of the capital resulting in a fire on a total area of ​​80 m² the residents of the building were evacuated told the state emergency service of the situation , the rescuers brought the fire under control, four apartments were damaged , there were no victims or injured, 30 emergency workers and 7 units of russian equipment were involved in fighting the fire at night, front-line villages in zaporizhzhia region were shelled, 36 houses were damaged in tauriysk, 10 households in malitok matka and more than 4 dozen houses in upper terka were reported by the head

, literally these days , one of the founders of the communist party of the soviet union, wagner yevgeny prigozhinthat russia needs a mass mobilization, they say that if we are going to fight for a long time, we need to declare a mass mobilization well, accordingly, martial law, and about this martial law, and ramzan kadyrov , the head of chechnya, spoke yesterday, our gur reports that in kursk taro said that the russians will be on the don large-scale complexes for sorting , analysis and storage of corpses of personnel liquidated in the war against ukraine, the area of ​​each object is more than 4,000 m², the complexes will include points for conducting investigations grandfather and research on bodies, refrigerators with refrigerators, chambers for 1,000 places, warehouses with strings and other funeral decorations, a mourning hall , in a word, they are, i understand, they want to fight until the end, to the last russian, or not, according to you, russia, after all, will stop at some figure of its losses losses in ukraine because this is the biggest war in the last 80 or 90 years in europe. yes

already completely controlled by god mot, and the head of the ministry of defense of ukraine, wagner yevgeny prigozhinhis, this information is denied by the deputy anomaler of the minister of defense emphasized before our broadcast that the situation in bakhmut is critical, but the defense forces are controlling certain objects, what can actually happen in fact, the whole operation with the defense of bakhmut was complex and difficult to understand, but with clear goals that were determined by our command, that is, against the background of the fact that the russian troops are mainly representatives of the so-called wagner group of the so-called private military campaign, although , of course, there are no private military companies in russia does not exist, they advanced in the city , with the help of various tools of artillery, aviation, they are actually destroying the place and trying to advance the city. for a long time already, quite active actions have begun on the flanks, i.e. in the very place and around the city, i.e. from the south and from the north , trying to cut off in the plan around b

interpersonal conflicts continue , the leader of the communist party of the soviet union, wagner yevgeny prigozhin, invited the minister of defense of the russian federation, sergei shoigu, to bakhmut due to a difficult operational situation the corresponding letter was published by his press service, in which prigozhyn claims that his mercenaries allegedly control more than 95% of the city and continue the offensive, at the same time he admitted that the ukrainian the military carried out a number of successful counter-attacks on their flanks, earlier prigozhin threatened to withdraw his troops from bakhmut from may 10 and complained about the lack of ammunition , in return for the changes in the defense of ukraine, they say that this is an outright lie, shelling from the occupiers , on the contrary, has significantly increased, the ukrainian military repelled 44 attacks by the russians on the lyman, bakhmut, avdiyiv and mariinsky directions , the general headquarters report that the fiercest battles continue for bakhmut and mariinsky, the air force of the village of borony struck 14 strikes on t

to rockets and their rocket arsenal , literally these days one of the founders of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhind that russia needs a mass mobilization, they say if we we are going to fight for a long time, we need to announce a mass mobilization well, accordingly, martial law , and ramzan kadyrov , the head of chechnya, spoke about this martial law yesterday. against ukraine personnel, the area of ​​each object is more than 4,000 m², the complexes will include points for conducting investigations and research on bodies, refrigerators with refrigerators , chambers for 1,000 places, warehouses with strings and other funeral decorations, a mourning hall, in one word, they are, i understand, they want to fight until the last russian, whether or not you like it, russia will still stop at some figures of its losses in ukraine , because this is the biggest war in europe in the last 80-90 years yes, for sure, look. my opinion will not be easy. my opinion will be the next. it will not stop. it will definitely stop until the last one . when they are here, their russian authorities will send the last one

bakhmut remains a priority the russians the day before, i will remind the leader of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhin announced the complete capture of bakhmut, the president of ukraine and the ministry of defense lost the city , they objected to the word bakhmut remains the epicenter of battles for eight months well, at the moment, the defense forces continue offensive actions on the flanks near bakhmut and control the outskirts of the city in order to enter it when the operational situation at the front will change, this was announced by the commander of the ground forces of the ukrainian armed forces oleksandr syrsky, who visited the front line in the direction of bakhmut, together with the commanders planned further actions and strategy in detail, and the syrian also showed how our defenders work in the direction of bakhmut, he posted a video on his page in a telegram, he wrote an excellent job, the defense force allowed to destroy 9 units of enemy equipment, one tank, four battles and armored vehicles and four cars , meanwhile, special operations forces they showed how they continue to fight for

sacred date for them 9 may well, but there is a nuance of the leader of the pocket army wagner yevgeny prigozhin his mercenaries allegedly do not have enough ammunition , blame the russian command for this and said that his army depends on the city. on may 10 , the armed forces and the main intelligence office called such statements a bluff and, in fact, an admission of wagner's defeat. what is happening in bakhmut, what is prigozhyn afraid of , and what are they saying to the uzsu darina volunteer artillery, rockets and enemy aircraft, the occupiers continue to level bakhmut with the ground, every minute the debt is hit with a straight line hitting the battle in the center of the city at a minimum distance from the enemy, everything is alive in frequent shooting battles, it continues to storm again and again, little by little, in our positions for almost 10 months, we did not succeed , instead, its surroundings have already covered tens of thousands of circles of russian invaders, among them the wagnerites and the so-called elite units of the ref, not counting losses or achieving at least some

serhii, the day before the russian head of wagner yevgeny prigozhin gave a propaganda interview to the russian debt and stated that the interview after the start of the war either amounted to they call the ukrainians have become a united nation, the ukrainian army is one of the strongest in the world. further, a direct quote and a video can be viewed on the internet . well, there is donbas in ukrainian . eh pakhamsky walked in boots but he already read in russian all over the territory while they were looking for nazis on sausages everyone we could came to kyiv and eh gave up then near kharkiv and in kherson we made ukraine a nation that is known everywhere and by all ukrainians - it is now the strongest army in the world, said prigozhin in a long interview. have you seen this interview? how can you comment on these words ? he is preparing with similar messages to the president of russia, or where should i ask for a comment? well , the first thing is that he needs to correct the 10-month-old pounding under the bahmut that he was going to take eh well there within a month because the fi

separate assault brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, according to the leader of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhin0 russians were killed on this part of the front, our military destroyed several enemy ammunition depots of minesweepers and bmps, and about strengthening the defense of the sky , the air defense forces of the kyiv region and the north-west of ukraine have received additional suvs, they will be used to create mobile fire groups to fight enemy drones and missiles, you see with your own eyes shoot down the means of air attack with which the enemy tried to attack ukraine, this shoot down a shaket, this is an aileron, this is an orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicle, this is a hall and other objects . today, we are strengthening our air defense system and handing over to our defenders another batch of mobile vehicles equipped with large-caliber machine guns and portable anti-aircraft missile systems. missile fragments found near the polish city of bydgoszcz belonged to the russian kha-55 missile, this is evidenced by the preliminary conclusions of the examination of the technological institute

of a successful 500-meter attack, said brigade commander andriy biletskyi and the leader wagner yevgeny prigozhine 72nd motorized rifle brigade of the russian army escaped from the city , 500 of its fighters were killed , this was confirmed by the ukrainian air force. of moscow's most modern dagger-type missiles, the russian military claims that this air-based ballistic missile has a range of up to 2,000 km and flies from at a speed that is 10 times faster than the speed of sound, this makes it very difficult to intercept it, and i am now joined by oleksandr kovalenko, a military-political expert, congratulations. and my first question is: great britain provided ukraine with long-range cruise missiles in anticipation of an offensive, how will these cruise missiles change the situation at the front and for ukraine it is now very important to exert a fire influence precisely on the deep rear of the russian occupiers on their positions, which are located on the temporarily occupied territory in the deep rear of us today, we have actually already created the conditions for dominance, then the influen

fired two shots at the enemy of the russian federation, the infantry, the owner of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhinered ukraine to hand over the location of russian troops in exchange for the fact that the armed forces of ukraine would withdraw from bakhmut, this is reported by the washington post with reference to data from leaked documents, the publication writes that such an offer was allegedly passed on to ukraine at the end in january , when i quote, the wagnerites died during the storming of bakhmut by the thousands, the newspaper also mentions two ukrainian officials who confirmed that prigozhyn spoke several times with by representatives of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense, in particular, one of the officials allegedly said that prigozhin made proposals regarding bahmut more than once, but kyiv rejected them because officials do not trust prigozhin . in another document, allegedly created on the basis of us intelligence , it is claimed that prigozhin personally met with an officer of the ukrainian of military intelligence in africa, prigozhin himself ridiculed suc

on the eve, i will remind the leader of the communist party of ukraine wagner yevgeny prigozhin announced the complete capture of bakhmut. the president of ukraine and the ministry of defense denied the loss of the city to the letter. bakhmut remains the epicenter of fighting for eight months. well, for now, the defense forces continue offensive actions on the flanks near bakhmut and control the outskirts of the city in order to enter it when the operational situation at the front changes, said the commander of the ground forces of the armed forces of ukraine oleksandr syrsky, who visited the front line in the direction of bakhmut. where together with the commanders , they planned further actions and strategy in detail , and the syrian also showed how our defenders work in the direction of bakhmut, a video he posted on his page in a telegram wrote the work of the defense forces is excellent. 9 units of enemy equipment were destroyed, one tank, four armored combat vehicles and four cars , and the special operations forces showed how they continue to fight for bakhmut. in these shots, the s

been shot down well , so what, but let's hear what about this attack said the owner of pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhinyou did nothing to attack them. how do you allow these drones to fly to moscow, that is, they fly to your home for a ruble, but i am not talking about that vasyl, you know. it seems to me very similar to the impression that these people live in 1984, and although he would certainly have written something now, he would have written in 2023. well , after that, putin came out to the journalists almost in the evening and repeated his - his song about the fact that it was not our role to start the war, it was russia that started the war, but we are forced to do it . and our missiles are the most accurate missiles , the most accurate missiles in the world and the most accurate missiles in the world that hit only military targets and not at all civilian objects in particular in the houses of none the truth has not been destroyed in ukraine, vasyl, no, but in this way, ukraine has shown that it demands a mirror answer from russia , well, indeed, 1984 is the right year to answer , because someh

wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin screaming at president putin's defense minister and army chief of staffsing them of killing his troops in bakhmut by starving them of ammunition. >> translator: we are pulling out of bakhmut. we have only two or so kilometers left to capture out of 45. >> reporter: hours later, an ultimatum, send ammo or he'll pull his troops out of bakhmut just as they are close to taking it. also troubling for the kremlin, prigozhin hired a wagner deputy commander. until last week, he was russia's deputy defense minister. it hints at a pending wagner/kremlin showdown. ukraine's military spokesman says bakhmut could be at a turning point if russia doesn't fix its ammunition supply problem. he also says that prigozhin cannot afford to continue losing troops at this rate. if he does, the spokesman says, wagner will be destroyed. prigozhin, he says, has no option but to pull out. >> reporter: prigozhin's machinations having no impact on the fighting around the devastated city friday. both sides still feeding men into the front lines, known as ukraine's meat grinder. and the

videos as proof. [ speaking in a global language ] a ferocious parting shot after the head of wagner, yevgeny prigozhinpull his forces out of bakhmut following a rant standing among the corpses of his fighters. a threat later rescinded with the promise of much-needed ammunition. the fight for that city alone has cost thousands of lives on both sides. a sea of ukrainian flags fly over the final resting place of the country's war dead. the ukrainian government never reveals the true death toll of those soldiers killed in action. but these fresh graves tell their own story, including those they're preparing to fill. ahead of the looming ukrainian counteroffensive russia has gone on the offensive. a massive fireball lit up the horizon after a cruise missile strike on what ukraine called an industrial complex. ukraine has stepped up its attacks too, striking targets like fuel depots on russian territory. and that was before the alleged drone strike on the kremlin on wednesday. maybe not the terrorist act to kill putin the kremlin says it is. but it's an embarrassment ahead of a show of force for the preside

on wednesday, wagner's founder yevgeny prigozhin said 20,000 of the group's mercenaries were killed during russia's months-long assault on bakhmut. prigozhin also warned the invasion of ukraine could trigger a revolution in russia, blasting what he called the fat, carefree lives of russia's elite while poor and working-class russians die by the thousands. on wednesday, the commander of a self-described anti-putin russian militia spoke to reporters on the ukrainian side of the border, promising more attacks on russian territory after the kremlin said it had repelled a raid by the militia in the belgorod region. "the new york times" reports the pro-ukraine fighters used at least three u.s.-made armored vehicles known as mraps during their incursion. in moscow, kremlin spokesperson dmitry peskov cited the hardware as evidence of direct involvement in the conflict by the united states and its nato allies. earlier today, russia signed an agreement with belarus to begin deploying tactical nuclear weapons in the former soviet state. meanwhile, russians -- russia's prime minister mikhail mishustin

that's why it wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin relies on plundering natural resources, thousands of milesral african republic. in exchange, wagner provides mercenary muscle to prop up the country's leader. here, you see master russian fighters actually guarding the president. documents obtained by cbs news to show how wagner is given government contracts to exploit c.a.r.'s gold mines and forest through a galaxy of shell companies. not his real name, told us he was tortured by the mercenaries, who seized his family gold business beard he says c.a.r.'s minerals and would help fund the groups criminal activities. like in ukraine, he tells us, how else do you explain russia's economy remaining on evicted, despite heavy sanctions. but hard as the u.s. detonated trash national criminal organization export its gold? they have total control of the airport, he explains. and a cargo plane flying between moscow and -- cbs news secretly recorded this wagner cargo planet after it landed in the capital. from c.a.r., that plane went dark over africa, before turning up in the united arab emirates. soon

wagner, there are several tens of thousands of people . well, in fact, the owner of this company, yevgeny prigozhin, posed, so to speak, against the backgroundf the corpses of his mercenaries and talked about the huge losses of wagner himself in the battle thank you oleg correspondent hung up oleg chernysh, what should we end our graduation with? see you tomorrow pain can be an obstacle walking up the stairs not with my knees from knee pain try the dolgit cream, it relieves pain, reduces swelling and improves joint mobility, you can also walk the only yellow cream for joint pain a what do you think about lacalut fix reliably fixes me my dentist advised me and particles of food do not get under the prosthesis and the price is good the right choice for my pension new cream for express fixation of dentures and healthy gums so your choice poster fix education free people have a choice choose what you want on megogo, dear, they waited for you in the garden and something, your back hurts almost like a comfrey and you will be like a young man help me comfrey ointment from dr. theis german ointment for joint and muscle pain comfrey restores movement

appreciate it. >>> and the leader of wagner mercenaries is now inviting russia's defense minister to visit bakhmut. yevgeny prigozhin made the invitation after mubly slamming russia's top military brass. cnn's fred pleitgen as more. >> reporter: after months of brutal fighting the battle for bakhmut may be pushing wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin closer to the edge. standing in front of the bodies of his dead fighters, he launched into a rant against russia's military leadership, blaming them for the deaths. >> translator: do you think you were the masters of this life? do you think you could dispose of other lives? you think that because you have warehouses full of ammunition that you have that right? >> reporter: for months prigozhin and vladimir putin's top generals, sergei shoigu and valerri gerasimov, have been mired in severe infighting. but now the wagner boss's tirades are becoming more vicious and more frequent, accusing russia's defense minister of withholding much-needed ammo. >> translator: instead of using a shell to kill an enemy and saving one of our soldiers' lives, they are killing our soldiers. >> rep

part of the city in the area of ​​the plane, let me remind you earlier, the leader of the wagner pvk yevgeny prigozhind that his mercenaries have begun to leave the city, they will allegedly leave the city completely by june 1 and hand over their positions to the russian army. prigozhin recorded a three-minute video in which he called on his so -called soldiers to take their time and withdrawing one unit of equipment at a time, the wagnerites are relocating to the rear camps where they will lick their wounds , i.e. rest and look for new mercenaries , putin’s chief koshivar similar statements about the exit from the bahamut has already repeatedly exploded in the temporarily occupied melitopol, there was a lot of noise in the area of ​​the airfield, the mayor ivan fedorov reported the details of the incident are being clarified , there are no enemy missile carriers in the black sea, russia has taken them to their bases , but there are still six ships on combat duty in the azov, one and in the mediterranean, seven ships, including one caliber carrier, in a total volley of four years - on may 25-26, the 1

there was some criticism from the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, whose group has been leadingseize bakhmut. he said that what had happened near bakhmut was actually a rout. hugo bachega with the latest there from kyiv. the presidential candidates in turkey are completing a final day of campaigning — before sunday's crucial election. president recep tayyip erdogan held a rally in istanbul, where he built his popular support as mayor more than 20 years ago. and his secular challenger, kemal kilicdaroglu, has also been campaigning — he's been pledging to restore democracy and improve relations with the west. let's speak to our senior international correspondent — orla guerin, in ankara. orla, what's at stake in this election? ina word, in a word, you could say everything. turkey is facing a binary choice in effect after 20 years of rule by president erdogan. there is now an alternative an offer, the opposition kemal kilicdaroglu who is the leader of the main opposition party in this election. he is standing on a coalition of six opposition parties. that is a very broad church, ev

interesting that the air alert in moscow was not announced at the time, the owner of the wagner pvk yevgeny prigozhin ministry of defense, you allow snow . of the president of russia dmitry peskov said that putin was informed about the attack by drones in direct mode, but he does not plan to address the citizens because they say that there is no danger for them. ответинных кадионых кадионского рейтинг on the writings, our strikes on the center are effective, one of the centers in decision-making is the necessity of the necessity of the continuation of this special military operation and the achievement of the set goals. however, a few hours later , putin's reaction was published about the kremlin's resources. well, i want to say that the moscow system worked. - it’s full-time and satisfactory in the house, there is something to work on , we faced the same problems, eh, at the airfield. european megalopolis they are provoking us to mirror action well, let's see what's up with this matter, the ukrainian project informnapalm wrote that only russians were involved in the drone attack on moscow and the mo

backs of the enemy who is retreating, brigade commander andriy biletskyi reported, and wagner's leader yevgeny prigozhin said that the 72nd motorized rifle brigade of the russian army escaped from the city, its fighters were killed, this was confirmed in the air force of ukraine shot down a russian hypersonic missile over kiev with the help of american patriot anti-missile systems. this is the first known case in the world when one of the of moscow's most modern dagger-type missiles, the russian military claims that this air-based ballistic missile has a flight range of up to two thousand kilometers and flies at a speed that is 10 times faster than the speed of sound, which makes it very difficult to intercept it, and now oleksandr kovalenko , a military-political expert, has joined me. congratulations and my the first question is that great britain provided ukraine with long-range cruise missiles against the background of the expectation of an offensive, how will these cruise missiles change the situation on the front and for ukraine now it is very important to exert fire influence precisely on the dee

mercenaries from the wagner group russia's private army known for its brutality in ukraine wagner's leader is yevgeny prigozhin, president putin's former caterer turned commander. in ukraine, wagner fights for the kremlin. it makes its money here, according to two western diplomats in bangui, wagner is extracting half a billion dollars a year in gold, rare timber, and blood diamonds this woman, who asked us to conceal her identity for her protection, lived in the village of ndassima, where her husband was a gold miner. she told me how russian mercenaries arrived, armed in vehicles and ordered the villagers to leave. >> translator: they were beating people, whipping people and chasing them away. >> reporter: when her husband and seven others refused to go, they were executed what do you think the russians wanted? gold you think it's as simple as that >> translator: yes they came for our wealth and for our gold today, my children don't have a father. they don't have anything at all. >> reporter: i'm sorry. thank you very much for doing this i know it's very difficult. thank you. the independent research group se

can i ask you about this extraordinary figure, yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner group?re quite extraordinary, aren't they? the fact that russia has had to rely on a mercenary group led by an extremely volatile personality, it would seem, doesn't suggest that the russian army is running smoothly. i think it's a bit of an extreme measure that had to be taken after the russian official army, as it were, has faced so many setbacks in ukraine. russia isn't really a safe place any more, is it? i mean, there are all these rather murky attacks that go on. it's never quite clear whether it's ukrainian special forces that are doing it. certainly in their interests, isn't it? this is one of the most important developments. when launching his attack on ukraine, president putin said that one of his key objectives was to make russia safer, more secure. and he said he was acting pre—emptively, as it were. now, more than a year into this war, it's obvious — to russians as well — that russia has become less secure. president erdogan of turkey is a difficult party for the west, and he's

there was some criticism from the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, whose group has been leading to seize bakhmut. he said that what had happened near bakhmut was actually a rout. hugo bachega with the latest there from kyiv. because of the russian invasion, ukraine has been unable to host the eurovision song contest despite winning the competition last year. the uk is holding the contest on ukraine's behalf. let's go live to liverpool now and my colleague maryam moshiri who is watching all the action for us. a warm welcome from liverpool. after months of build up, the city is preparing to host the final of the eurovision song contest tonight. more than 160,000 people across the continent are expected to watch. among the favourites to win — sweden. eurovision legend loreen first won the competition in 2012. now she's back for a second shot at the title. but hot on her heels is finland's kaarija with his incredibly catchy song cha cha cha. well, earlier in the week our team here had the chance to speak with each of them and we were a bit cheeky — asking them what it might be like

there was some criticism from the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, whose group has been leadingo seize bakhmut. he said that what had happened near bakhmut was actually a rout. hugo bachega with the latest there from kyiv. because of the russian invasion, ukraine has been unable to host the eurovision song contest — despite winning the competition last year. the uk is holding the contest on ukraine's behalf. and we can go live now to maryam moshiri who is watching all the action for us in liverpool. it's the anticipation building their? it has, and it has been a week. welcome to liverpool where after months of build up, the city is preparing to host the final of the eurovision song contest tonight. more than 160—million people across the continent are expected to watch. among one the favourites to win — sweden. eurovision legend loreen first won the competition in 2012. now she's back for a second shot at the title. 0ur media and arts correspondent david sillito has been soaking up the atmosphere ahead of tonight's long awaited grand finale. liverpool has become a carnival... ..

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there was some criticism from the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, whose group has been leadingize bakhmut. he said that what had happened near bakhmut was actually a rout. hugo bachega with the latest there from kyiv. because of the russian invasion, ukraine has been unable to host the eurovision song contest — despite winning the competition last year. so the uk stepped in to host on their behalf — and with just hours to go, the final preparations are under way in liverpool. our media and arts correspondent david sillito has been soaking up the atmosphere. liverpool has become a carnival... ..of eurovision. everywhere you look, there's a reminder ofjust what has arrived. the city is awash with glitter. and, well, there's only one word for it — rammed. just look at the queue for the eurovision village. and this isjust the buildup. the main event is going to be even busier. and among it all today was one very excited fan, josh. wow. wow, wow, wow. are we going in there, then? oh, my gosh! when tickets went on sale in march... oh, my god, ithink i'm going to cry! ..we were with h

there was some criticism from the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, whose group has been leadingsaid that what had happened near bakhmut was actually a rout. hugo bachega with the latest there from kyiv. because of the russian invasion, ukraine has been unable to host the eurovision song contest, despite winning the competition last year. the uk is holding the contest on ukraine's behalf. let's go live to liverpool now and my colleague maryam moshiri who is watching all the action for us. hello from liverpool where after months of build up, the city is preparing to host the final of the eurovision song contest tonight. more than i60—million people across the continent are expected to watch. among the favourites to win — sweden. eurovision legend loreen first won the competition in 2012. now she's back — hoping to claim victory for a second time. finland's entry — cha cha cha — is also considered a strong contender for first place. and reigning champions ukraine are defending their title — with electronic duo tvorchi putting forward the dance number �*heart of steel.�* with me now

that is the warning from yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner group. reporter: this has come to the forefront in the last few months. one of those where he talks about the sons and daughters of moscow officials, it is a lengthy interview posted with a pro-war blogger. he even specifically goes after the defense minister's daughter. speaks specifically about their children and he has this long-running feud with the defense minister. and one of those over the last nine months since his forces, the wagner group, has been at the front line in bakhmut has been that moscow and the russian military is not providing his guys with the same level of equipment, with ammunition, with the supplies they need. if his guys are really going to take the hit on the front line. what he also said, and last weekend, the wagner chief in front of his troops claimed full control over bakhmut. he also said that he's pulling his guys out today. we saw the video where he did start to withdraw his troops. he said the full withdrawal would be by june 1st. and part of that is to see

interview with the russian war blogger made public this week the head of russia's mercenary wagner group yevgeny prigozhin for the elite, unless they gave up their charmed lives and pitched in on the war effort the current moment in the country could end up looking like 1917. he was warning, in other words, of a second russian revolution. it was just the latest of a series of alarming critiques that prigozhin has launched at the russian establishment including the current defense minister and even implicitly putin himself. we know about putin's complete unwillingness to break any opposition so why allow prigozhin such open tirades and what does it tell us about dommest being politics in russia at the moment in this war? joining me now to talk about all this andrei soldatov and julia yafi. andrei is a russian investigative journalist living in exile, of course, in london and julia is a founding partner and russia correspondent at pak news. >> julia, give us an overview from what you can tell, are we overdoing it? in all this reading of tea leaves and looking at the fact that putin doesn't discipline prigoz

. >> translator: under cover of darkness a russian military blogger films wagner's chief yevgeny prigozhin heading into what he calls the nest. the russian nickname for a group of what were once high-rise residential buildings on the western edge of bakhmut. one of the last areas to fall under russian control. prigozhin is taken to see a body. we're not showing it as it's graphic. an american citizen identified by these documents and a friend as nicholas mamer, a retired u.s. army special forces soldier. >> the night of the 14th-15th nick was in the bakhmut area. he was with some other fellow territorial defense soldiers. and they came under attack. and unfortunately, the area that nick was in, that particular building took a direct hit from an artillery round. and the area that he was at in that building collapsed in on him and he was unable to make it out. >> reporter: by piecing together the circumstances of maimer's death cnn has put together a picture of the intense battle for these final scraps of a town that has become to symbolize the destructiveness of russia's war. "this is where

>> reporter: well, i mean, the leader of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, is likely to be identifiedof a terrorist organization. he has already bidentified as a leader of a transnational criminal organization. his people have bludgeoned their own people to death with sledgehammers when they have been returned as prisoners of war to their care. so i think the simple answer is no. statements coming from wagner leader prigozhin, he likes to make these dramatic statements on an almost daily basis, gar t garnering unwanted media attention and the battle for bakhmut is going to ebb and flow. they may or may not be dominant in the urbanized area. they are certainly under pressure on the flanks. the ukrainians are insisting that they still have people in the urban area and claiming short-term victories simply illustrating a failure to understand the battle is kdynamc rather than static occasions. they don't end like a soccer match. they continue indefinitely until there is an absolute result. the ukrainians could be in the process of encircling what remains of the wagner group in the free fi

i will remind you earlier, the leader of the wagner communist party yevgeny prigozhin said that his mercenariese started to leave the city. they will allegedly leave the city completely by june 1. they will hand over their positions to the russian army. and in the capital , the 15th kyiv security forum is ongoing, guests are talking about the possible accession of ukraine to nato and details will be told by our correspondent valeriya pashko, who follows all the panels of the lerou forum. i congratulate you, so please tell me how the participants of the event feel about for us to become members of the alliance. do you have any news at this time? my congratulations, indeed, the topic of nato and ukraine's accession to this alliance is a leading one during the kyiv security forum, but we hear a lot of statements and also about ukraine's victory in this war, actually the former prime minister the minister of lithuania said that the victory of ukraine in that aggression of russia could lead to a change of the entire security architecture of eastern europe and europe in general, that after our victor

- and the way the kremlin is handling it because we're hearing that from the mercenary wagner boss yevgeny prigozhinting because tomorrow is victory day, a huge symbolic day for russia honoring the day where russia beat nazis back in world war ii. nic robertson, we have to leave the conversation there. thanks so much. over to you, jim. >>> and that kind of dissent is dangerous in russia to say the least. new details about the shooter in the texas mall massacre. an update ahead on cnn "news central." safelite came right to us, and we could see exactly when t they'd arrive with a replacement we could t trust. that's service the way we want it. >>>> singers: ♪ safelite repai, safelite replace. ♪ not that into saving, are you? -whoa, dudude... -money. cuz... cuz you paid too much for those glasses. next time, go to america's best where two pairs and a free, quality eye exam start at just $79.. book an exam today at aricasbest.com. ♪ - representative! - sorry, i didn't get that. - oh buddy! you need a hug. you also need consumer cellular. get the exact same coverage as the nation's leading carriers and 1

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wagner mercenary yevgeny prigozhin claiming to have taken bakhmut.ot surprising given the heavy fighting, a month of losses, the ukrainians have endured there. but they are yet to call it quits on the town. zelenskyy's diplomatic triumph trumping prigozhin's propaganda. >> do you feel better if you is have an f-16? >> sure. and every single soldier could say that, yes, it will change the game plan. >> how? >> radically. >> in what way? >> everyday. first of all, you have air superiority. >> reporter: reality here that every soldier knows. promises count for little until the weapons are in their hands. and i don't think anyone here is really expecting the f-16s to be in the soldiers' hands so to speak kbh the counteroffensive kicks off, but the recognition here on the battlefield and commanders we speak to is that this is not a fast one and done in a couple of days. this is going to be a hard fight. they hope to be at -- be able to punch through, take a lot of territory. but no one thinks this is going to be over fast. those f-16s when they come are s

in general, russian war lord and help of the wagner army, yevgeny prigozhin, says these attack shows that russia's military leaders are doing, quote, absolutely nothing at all unquote to modernize russia's drone defenses. heavy gave an angry video that seemed more focused on the russians than the ukrainians who many of us suspect were behind it. what do you make of the fact these drones were actually able to get into moscow and damage some in areas, elite areas of the city? >> not surprised at all. counterdrone operations have been some of the toughest challenges we've had in u.s. military. the fact that they are -- if they are knocking down as many as they are, surprises me, because three years ago, we virtually had no counterdrone capability. you just had to shoot it out of the sky. if you look at the iraq embassy, the u.s. embassy in iraq, they are always afraid of this. so this is relatively new technology. it's sort of a manhattan project being done inside the military right now. but the drones are some of the deadliest systems on the battlefield. >> that's interesting. it's cou

meanwhile in bakhmut, the wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin saying that his fighters have made more gainswhat all sides now agree including russian state media, by the way, is an intensifying battle for that city. erin? >> all right, matthew chance, thank you so much. i want to go now, as promised, to alexander rodnyansky, the filmmaker who russia is trying to arrest. he left russia after the war began. he's repeatedly spoken out against it. i very much appreciate your time. let's just begin here. putin wants to arrest you. what was your reaction when you found out? >> well, thank you for having me. nothing would shock me anymore in russia. i believe russia as a state is falling down. they are persecuting everyone who tries to protest, who tries to speak out against the war, who tries to say the truth, what's going on. that's why i consider this arrest and criminal case against me as a badge of honor and formal recognition by the russian state of my entire war position, that's what i believe is important for me. because since this invasion started from the very beginning, i started to spe