'Prigozhin is not finished' - The fallout from the Wagner mutiny in Russia

attempted coup in Russia over the weekend joining me now for a closer look at what's happening on the ground is defense and security analyst Professor Michael Clark who's in the studio um Michael what's been going on there over the last sort of 24 48 Hours have have Ukraine taken the opportunity of of the turmoil in Russia to make any advances on the ground yeah it's true I mean they haven't changed the strategy but they're doing more of what they were doing before and whereas at last week we were looking at three areas where they were pushing quite hard and going sideways trying to sort of break the Russian's defensive shape now there's the six areas so if you look at the map there's now sort of six big areas I mean bakmut in the North through to volada through to towards tokmak and now one thing we were saying last week which now is confirmed they have crossed the river the Nipper River at novocal Kafka and across the antonovsky bridge the first one and so they've established a Bridgehead and the Russians have admitted this and they've counter-attacked that Bridgehead um not especially successfully but they have and so what's what's happening is that the ukrainians are I think taking the opportunity to widen the front of their pressure and reznikov who's the defense minister in cave he said we're not ready yet this isn't the main attack but we are doing well and zelenski said the same so we've had a pretty good day also and I think what they've done is they've used this opportunity to increase the pressure all the way across the front to see where the the gaps are and the ministry of Defense our own British Ministry of Defense are now reporting they say that they think the Russians are having trouble finding the reserves to conduct these counter attacks so they are getting stretched sideways and interestingly of course we don't know what's happening to the Wagner group and the Wagner group make up up to 25 of the force is actually fighting on the Russian front line and so the vaginal group had withdrawn in order to rest and reorganize after back much and they needed that and the expectation was well they'll come forward again as part of these counter-attacks well they probably won't be doing that now and so the Russians may have lost a rather important part of their reinforcement Pro process and of course they've also lost the head of Wagner group progression what do we know what's going on with him what is the current situation between him and Putin yes well I mean lots more questions than answers we don't know if he's in Belarus yet although there are aircraft being spotted flying to Minsk and maybe he's on one of them who knows but he's not out of it yet I mean he's not given up I mean he issued his statement his 11-minute statement last night ahead of Putin's five-minute statement and the both of them making vaing glorious claim so he said it was never a coup in bragosian said he was never a coup we were just pointing out um how badly the war has been conducted and we're just showing what could could really be done that's ridiculous but that's what he says and then Putin has said well I mean this was this was treason but we've but I have presided over a situation where we've kept the peace and so on and so both of them are claiming credit for what what this mess has become and believe me progression is not out of it there is interesting information now this this this attempted coup started on Friday on Wednesday last week there was a lot of stuff going around the oligarchs that something was happening and that's where because that's how American intelligence picked up there was something happening nobody quite knew what it was it's not that people are behind pregoing making him do it but now that pagodian has has conducted this attempted Rebellion a lot of people are now circling around seeing how they might use it forgotten is used by some people he's hated by almost all of them they despise him they're said to be a there's been a contract out on him for about a year now um to get him killed by one of the criminal groups to actually pick him off that may or may not still be in force but a lot of people are circling around to see how they might manipulate the situation and pragos and believe me is not finished

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Length: 3min 39sec (219 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 27 2023