they bomb peaceful cities while people are sleeping. for example, yesterday everyone was talking about prigozhin when ukraine was hit by missiles. i m not interested in him. he is a criminal. translation: everything that is going on there - is god s punishment, - because the russian people have been supporting - their president and military. they say they want to liberate us, but we don t need - liberation from anyone. we know how to live. we don t need to be dictated by anyone on how to live - or what our rights are. we were a bit disappointed when it finished so early! yeah. yeah, we expected they would move their forces back to russia from our lands, and probably they would solve issues inside their country and to maybe leave our country. authorities here in kyiv continue to push the message that the counteroffensive is making
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to victory with up to 44 percent of the vote, across ukraine, there s been intense speculation about how events in russia will affect the counteroffensive currently under way. the bbc s mayenijones is in kyiv. like millions of people around the world, ukrainians followed this weekend s events in russia closely. for a brief moment it seemed like president putin s iron grip on russian politics might be coming to an end, but as many people here in kyiv wake up on sunday morning, they still don t know what to make of it all. translation: we hoped things would advance, . that prigozhin will change his mind and join the ukrainians. but money does miracles. he was obviously paid off. he has basically surrendered. translation: for me, both prigozhin and putin are war criminals.
with the russian military throughout 2022 are pretty obvious, and eventually they increasingly had to turn to private military company, and wagner in particular, to build out their efforts when they got into real trouble late last year. so, of course, as pmc grew it gained greater power, and within that it was arguing about the prosecution of the conflict. prigozhin has always argued that the conflict was not being prosecuted correctly, and clearly was not getting on with the senior military leadership. so, you almost had two militaries, at that point, that were in deep rivalry, and a few weeks ago, within part of that power struggle, the russian mod effectively demanded that under a new law the pmc contractors, the soldiers working for wagner, the bursaries, would have tojoin the regular russian military, would have to accept regular russian military contracts, and that not only struck at prigozhin s new power base but also, of course, at the wagner group, and that seems to have reall
to great military advantage. so, on that basis, then, if all these events are genuine, as we see them play out, this interplay between prigozhin and putin and also with the russian military and sergei shoigu, does this then give putin an opportunity to dispose of prigozhin to get rid of him and remove him from the picture? | putin has long had that opportunity, | but generally prigozhin has had more use, or at least he has been perceived in that way, - because they are different roles that he plays. - of course, first of all you have - wagner, which is an offensive force that s proven itself to be effective, certainly more effective than the russian, - the traditional russian military. secondly, as well, he provided i suppose a bit of an outlet - for some of the angry - what are called in russian the angry patriots, so, -