supplemented by convicted criminals who have been recruited from russian prisons. you did not see them going toe to toe against the russian security forces. so in the short-term something has been avoided here. but longer-term anybody with political ambition in russia has just seen that a rival potentially this -- prigozhin could be described as a rival -- could lead his men on a charge, a cannonball run up the highways almost to moscow through a number of different provinces, where the russian authorities were left with fewer options than basically trying to cut off the highways or park trucks full of sand on the highways to try to block these advancing columns of mercenaries. and to avoid that, the kremlin struck a deal rather than follow up on the reputation that putin