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About a decade ago, he began to carry out operations around the world on behalf of the kremlin, even interfering in americas 2016 election. but prigozhin became best known as head of wagner, an often—brutal private mercenary group working to the kremlin�*s agenda. it has been operating across the middle east and africa, including syria, libya and mali, allowing putin to project power without being directly involved. but it is in the last year in ukraine that it has really come to the fore. a...

Russia and ukraine. but this looked like mutiny. their leader, yevgeny prigozhin, seemed to have gone rogue after his feud with the russian defence ministry boiled over — over how the war in ukraine is being fought. at a military hq he told russian generals, "weve come for "the defence minister and the chief of the general staff. "if we dont get them, ill blockade the city and "head to moscow". this was treachery, said the kremlin. a stab in the back of russia. translation: our actions to defe...

On one of the sides, were turning our comms back and leaving in the opposite direction to the field camps, according to the plan. the belarusian president, alexander lukashenko, who as we mentioned, has claimed credit for brokering a deal between wagner and russian forces. his office said the belarusian leader, a close ally of president putins, took the lead in negotiations and talking down the mercenary leader, which ultimately led to prigozhin turning his troops back. but the damage may alread...

To his authority since coming to power over 20 years ago. but then, earlier this evening, there was a sudden change and the crisis seemed to be over. its all down to this man, yevgeny prigozhin, who leads a group of mercenary soldiers whove been fighting in ukraine, known as the wagner group. hes been very critical of the putin approach to the war. he called on russian troops to rebel against their leaders, and he said his men were marching on moscow. but, at 6:30pm this evening, prigozhin issue...

In an audio message, the kremlin press secretary dmitry peskov explained what will happen to the wagner fighters and prigozhin. translation: wagner will return to its bases. translation: wagner will return to its laases- in — translation: wagner will return to its bases. in some _ translation: wagner will return to its bases. in some of— translation: wagner will return to its bases. in some of them - translation: wagner will return to its bases. in some of them in - translation: wagner will ...

Thank you so much, rich. its now been just over four hours since we heard that this lightning like advance to kaluga, almost to moscow, had taken a turn and that the wagner mercenary group are retreating. we had a statement saying that this was to avoid bloodshed. i mean, but the scale of this we heard from president putin earlier in the day saying that this was an attempted mutiny, the advance from crimea, rostov—on—don all the way up to kaluga. i mean, moscow said that the wagner group fig...

But many say the damage may already be done. vladimir putin has called the actions of prigozhin — and his wagner group in the last 2a hours — a stab in the back and an attempted mutiny that wont go unpunished. well, across the border in kyiv, ukrainian president volodomyr zelensky said that the days action was a clear sign of weakness in the kremlin. translation: the man - from the kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself. i am sure that he is no lo...

An often brutal private mercenary group working to the kremlins agenda. it has been operating across the middle east and africa, including syria, libya and mali, allowing putin to project power without being directly involved. but it is in the last year in ukraine that it has really come to the fore. his forces have played a major role in the bloody combat. some of them came from prisons. here is prigozhin recruiting them in return for an early release. but battles like the one in bakhmut have l...

Entered after leaving russian occupied territory in ukraine. this march north unravelled over a 24—hour period, and it seemed from an outsider�*s perspective that it was all happening pretty quickly, thenit was all happening pretty quickly, then it seemed to come crumbling down, we have had information from belaruss presidents offers that he spoke to president putin and the wagner leader, and troops were doing an about turn, and the kremlin has now said yevgeny prigozhin of will move to bela...

Leadership in the war against ukraine. he said his men were on their way to moscow to demand changes but, hours later, he suddenly announced they were turning back, as a deal was struck with the kremlin. earlier, president putin had accused the rebels of "betrayal and treason". now he says avoiding bloodshed is more important than punishment. its been quite a day in russia. first, a rebellion and the spectre of civil war and then suddenly a resolution and a deal for de—escalation. tonights new...