won t last. the rain will travel eastwards through the day and it will turn increasingly humid. details coming up. good morning. it s tuesday, 27thjune. president putin has made his first public comments since the mutiny by the wagner mercenary group ended, saying any attempt to stir up turmoil in russia was doomed to fail . during a tv address, mr putin said the leaders of the uprising would be brought tojustice, but regular wagnerfighters could join the russian army, return to theirfamilies or go to belarus. graham satchell reports. vladimir putin has not been seen since saturday, but late last night he called a meeting of his security chiefs. in an address to the nation he thanked the russian people for standing up to what he called treachery. translation: it was the patriotism l of our citizens, the consolidation l of the whole of russian society, that played the decisive role in these events. this support helped us overcome the most difficult challenges that our motherl
condemning very strongly the organisers of this mutiny. he didn t name prigozhin by name. you didn t use his name. but he made it clear with his snarling speech and his curling lip that he was furious about what he describes as a betrayal, and yet at the same time, many russians have seen something quite different playing out on the streets. he was talking about of the unity of russians and the decisiveness of his own response and how this mutiny had been doomed to failure. yet what russians saw play out was a real challenge to mr putin. they saw troops not linked to the russian military heading for moscow. we now know it has been confirmed that some russian pilots were shot out of the sky by this column of armed mercenaries. it was an extraordinary thing to be happening, unprecedented. and as a result of it, mr putin has actually led to these wagner fighters take the choice, if they so wish, to go to belarus. and yevgeny prigozhin himself is still free. i don t think he is a man who i