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Which also handles prisoner exchanges might have been along those lines. which is fairly typical. but the battle for bakhmut has been incredibly important for prigozhin and his reputation. wagner stated that its goal, prigozhin said that his goal was to capture bakhmut by may 9th. obviously he failed to do that. he's been the one most critical of russian military leadership and defense minister, sergey -- , it's possible he's trying to trade to try to convince ukraine to step away from there so he could get a personal victory. and sort of save face in front of russian leadership. >> it's incre...

To the attention of police over nine alleged incidents. turning to the war in ukraine now and a former commander with the russian paramilitary wagner group has claimed asylum in norway after deserting from the mercenary organisation. andrey medvedev — who's 26 — crossed the border into norway last friday, where he was detained by border guards. stephanie prenticejoins me now from our newsroom in london. she has been covering the story for us. in the first instance, reminders what the wagner group do? , . . , do? they are an independent paramilitary _ do? they are an independent paramilitar...

I think it will be using trans people, already one of the most vulnerable, stigmatised groups in our society, as a political weapon, and i think that will be unconscionable and indefensible and really quite disgraceful. labour say the uk and scottish governments need to get round the table and find a solution to this. but it looks like it will be the courts that soon beckon now. chris mason, bbc news, in edinburgh. still to come a bit later in the programme, we'll look at the war in ukraine and what light the defection of a general from the russian mercenary organisation, the wagner group, cou...

Do know, increasingly as a conflict in ukraine has developed, the group has increased its presence there. as many as 10% of the troops on the ground right now could be from the wagner group. the general you mentioned, andrey medvedev was said to be a high commanding general in the group. what he's saying by his lawyers is he witnessing human rights abuses, war crimes and that led him to want to leave the group. he also said he witnessed crimes against members of the group internally and at the internal police force was responsible for executing anyone who did try to defect. he has made it acro...