it s still considered the most effective of russia s military units. at least in the ukrainians minds. generals are actually quite praiseworthy of how wagner s tactics brutalized they might be, they do work. they are still able to slowly gained ground and inflict losses on the ukrainians. so the russian military leadership, as much as prigozhin might be a thorn in their side, i don t think they can afford to lose the wagner group either. within the discord leaked documents, there are also documents about discussions of russian military officials about how to deal with him, how to shut him up, basically. it s incredible reporting. isabelle khurshudyan, thank you very much. thank you. still ahead, an emotional weekend at the university of idaho. six months after four young students were murdered, they were remembered and honored at the schools spring
an alleged offer made to the ukrainians in late january by yevgeny prigozhin, a close ally of vladimir putin, who runs the paramilitary wagner group. which has been recruiting prisoners and others to fight to take bakhmut. quoting now from the article, prigozhin said that if ukraine s commanders withdrew their soldiers from the area around bakhmut, he would get kyiv information on russian troop positions, which ukraine could use to attack them, unquote. the post says it s reporting is based on previously unreported u.s. intelligence documents leaked into social media. prigozhin denies the report, and a kremlin spokesman said, quote, it looks like another hoax, and quote. ukrainians were not coming to cnn to comment about. it from ukraine, is that croatia. isabelle, thanks so much for joining us. is it clear to you how those conversations between wagner s founder and ukrainian intelligence came out, and what specifically his offer was?
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