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Which also handles prisoner exchanges might have been along those lines. which is fairly typical. but the battle for bakhmut has been incredibly important for prigozhin and his reputation. wagner stated that its goal, prigozhin said that his goal was to capture bakhmut by may 9th. obviously he failed to do that. hes been the one most critical of russian military leadership and defense minister, sergey -- , its possible hes trying to trade to try to convince ukraine to step away from there so he ...

To the attention of police over nine alleged incidents. turning to the war in ukraine now and a former commander with the russian paramilitary wagner group has claimed asylum in norway after deserting from the mercenary organisation. andrey medvedev — whos 26 — crossed the border into norway last friday, where he was detained by border guards. stephanie prenticejoins me now from our newsroom in london. she has been covering the story for us. in the first instance, reminders what the wagner g...

I think it will be using trans people, already one of the most vulnerable, stigmatised groups in our society, as a political weapon, and i think that will be unconscionable and indefensible and really quite disgraceful. labour say the uk and scottish governments need to get round the table and find a solution to this. but it looks like it will be the courts that soon beckon now. chris mason, bbc news, in edinburgh. still to come a bit later in the programme, well look at the war in ukraine and w...

Do know, increasingly as a conflict in ukraine has developed, the group has increased its presence there. as many as 10% of the troops on the ground right now could be from the wagner group. the general you mentioned, andrey medvedev was said to be a high commanding general in the group. what hes saying by his lawyers is he witnessing human rights abuses, war crimes and that led him to want to leave the group. he also said he witnessed crimes against members of the group internally and at the in...

To sexual orientation and transgender people as well. not a lot of meat on the bones about what it will involve what has and said is there will be scrutiny on the legislation to make sure that all of the concerns around conversion therapy which existed last year as well when boris johnson therapy which existed last year as well when borisjohnson said, our address before any bill is officially tabled. so it is the start of what is likely to be a long process ahead of parliament. now lets return t...

The city of bakhmut, in eastern ukraine. catrina doxsee is associate director of the transnational threats project at the centre for strategic and international studies. thank you forjoining us. i assume you considered that a wagner a transnational threat? yes certainly. tell us more _ transnational threat? yes certainly. tell us more about _ transnational threat? yes certainly. tell us more about your— tell us more about your understanding about how it operates alongside the russian military?...

This is something that is assessed for everyone to seek asylum in norway, but obviously in this case it will be particularly thoroughly. heres bbc monitorings vitaly shevchenko. its the first known instance of a wagner fleeing to the west. he has been speaking to a rights defender, a russian rights defender who is in exile himself and andrey medvedev has claims that he has witnessed extrajudicial killings in ukraine by both fighters who were willing to go and fight and also captive ukrainian sol...

We have seen that this is a tool that moscow is increasingly relying on and i think that as they continue to be a very prominent aspect of russians were in ukraine and to glibly as their leader become more transparent about the nation of their operations including setting up their operations including setting up a official operations in st. petersburg we will contingency the prominence of the wagner group grow and the way that russia uses them continue to of all.— continue to of all. thank you...

Who�*s in control is disputed. russia claims to have taken it, but ukraine denies this. here�*s an army spokesperson. ukrainian forces stay in soledar and permanently hit russian troops and wagner criminals. thank you, british people and government, for our support. together to the victory. the fall of soledar would mark russia�*s first significant battlefield gain after months of military retreats and setbacks against ukrainian forces. it�*s located in ukraine�*s eastern donetsk provi...