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
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.
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
statement came out after a statement by yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of this mutiny, who was standing by his decision, defending what he had done, defending his actions, talking about the disarray in the russian military, saying the war in ukraine was being mismanaged, keeping on with that message, that he is absolutely full of vitriolic criticism of russia s military. he is a man who remains defiant and he is a man who remains defiant and he is apparently still free. we understand that he has been offered, or certainly his men have been offered, the opportunity to go to belarus, the neighbouring country. this is, remember, russia, where critics of the war spending years in prison. other people who criticised the war spending up to 25 years in for treason. yet yevgeny prigozhin remains free. it is, i think, a sign of how powerful a figure he is, and perhaps i worried the kremlin is. and struggling to know quite how to