prigozhin mercenary forces have pretty much taken over that every strategic town of rostov-on-don. i that s a very strategic part of this war. the russian mercenary groups have been launching offensive strikes in ukraine from there, so they ve been key to this battle. prigozhin says they have now taken that town completely. they are now firing eight shots, and what we re hearing now is that he s mercenary forces are moving north. possibly towards moscow, which is an incredibly significant development in what s happening in the last 24 hours, and the most curious challenge to the russian state in recent memory, now, prigozhin was saying that this wasn t a crew he was trying to get rid of the defense minister, shoigu, and the head of the armed forces, but this is a direct challenge to putin s authority when you re trying to remove his top military brass during a conflict with ukraine. what key right now, jonathan, is what happens over the coming hours. the loyalty of the rus
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now, prigozhin was saying that this wasn t a crew he was trying to get rid of the defense minister, shoigu, and the head of the armed forces, but this is a direct challenge to putin s authority when you re trying to remove his top military brass during a conflict with ukraine. what key right now, jonathan, is what happens over the coming hours. the loyalty of the russian security forces and the national guard are going to be key in how this crisis plays out for moscow. so far, the russian military don t seem to have put many obstacles in the way of prigozhin s forces that are heading north. many of them seem to have acquiesced, seeing that these troops were able to move north with much ease, which shows the sense of complacency among the russian troops that are there,
their minds as it happens many times and now we don t have a cease-fire. we don t have a really safe corridor. that s why our government told people that they can t risk their lives so they continue to negotiate. they continue to find a way how to get people out but for this moment, we don t have safe corridors. also very difficult situation with other cities like for example kherson, some cities in the region like bucchia, the russian military don t give us any chance for injured or children and women and this is a main problem and what we are trying to get at least this
you discussed skepticism about the russian reinforcements. is there a sense of the mercenaries, how many have come from syria and other places and what happened to the troops from belarus that were supposed to join the fight? that s a consistent thing. the russian people don t want this fight, the russian military don t want it. we are talking about 1,000, 2,000, maybe 3,000 mercenaries. that will not shift the balance here in terms of this battle. they re also not always equipped with russian armor, the most sophisticated weapons. you are talking about diss mounted forces. chechen units are doing some of the shock work in mariupol. these forces are not coming in and fighting the way russia really wants them to do. they don t really want to be here, they re doing it basically for money. compare it to the motivation of ukrainians, it is a different story. thank you so much, clint watts. willie, if it were a mop-up operation that would be one thing. if you are a syria, what do you