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6/26/23 - Episode Page - 27m - PDF Transcript
We are following breaking news out of Russia, where Yevgeny Prugoshin, the leader of the
Wagner mercenary group, says that his forces have left Ukraine and are headed into Russia.
We are voting in with reports from Newspapers, correspondents, and international media about the situation in Russia.
Tonight's news is dominated by the volatile situation in Russia.
Russian authorities are telling Wagner fighters not to follow their leader, Yevgeny Prugoshin,
and also to take measures to detain him.
The world's major, Gormuk.
Everyone is looking at the moon because it is looking for a weaponry attack against Putin.
Putin was facing the biggest threat to his authority since coming to power over 20 years ago.
It begins with a wide discrepancy from the Wagner boss, Prugoshin, on Friday night.
Lördemorgen develops it so well that it shows a regular Russian coup attempt.
4,000 seriously wounded men from the private Wagner here are moving in an unequivocal way
against the Russian capital, Moscow, against Putin's crime.
This is a fight for power in Russia, as we see in the game, for all of us,
and it will be a huge blow for Putin to stop it, because it is very fast.
But then it stops quickly, almost as suddenly as it started.
Even if the coup attempt never becomes a reality, the question is whether Putin has been killed.
It is today about the failed murder of the weekend, and the ruffles that have been sent through the crime.
My name is Anna Ingrish.
These failed coup attempts took place in the weekend, or what we should call it now.
What have it done to you?
It has destroyed some of the weaknesses in the Putin system,
and it also tells us that there are some fundamental weaknesses in the Russian state.
There are weaknesses that they do not have the ability to handle.
A state that says that we should not use the border, because we are still going far away,
but a weaponized conflict in a certain way, a form of weaponized attack, a coup attempt, etc.
is of course a sign of a state that has problems with itself.
Fleming, let's start with you. You just presented yourself to the people who may not have heard you now.
I have seen you research in the Danish Institute for International Studies.
What you have been aware of in the weekend, Fleming, has it come back to you?
It is completely concrete that it has come back to me, but we have only been able to take it through the months,
that there have been these tensions, and we have talked about how far can Brigodian go.
How many snores does he have? He has sought out the boundaries.
We must say that he has found the boundaries here in the weekend,
but we have been able to see that it has come together with something.
It means that the conflict, the accusations, the accusations, the accusations have become stronger and stronger,
and that is what we have been able to see.
In the division of the Chevak Wagner, the Bahamut was practically surrounded.
The main person in the weekend's drama is Yevgeny Prigoshin.
The keys are clamping.
The leaders of the military group Wagner.
A private Russian camp here is well known for their brutality.
Earlier, he managed a trolley here for Putin, and then also gave him the president's cock.
They call him Putin's chef. Here he is serving President George W. Bush.
When Putin was supposed to have done some business, he gave him to Prigoshin.
Now he leads a huge private army.
It was Prigoshin who could organize things, things to happen,
but he was scrapped out in a different way.
And Prigoshin has a very dark past.
He had the most of the four officials in the Soviet Union.
Just like in the past, he has been sitting for many years.
And then he came into the catering industry,
and therefore he was one of those who wanted to get Putin.
Do you have Prigoshin's cock here? How does it look?
He is a hard guy. He is a little heavy in it.
He is brutal in his expression.
And there are many of the tabloids in the system that do not like him.
And because of that, his future, the way he talks about it,
is his choice, which is full of vulgarity.
And then that's what he's sitting in jail for.
That's what many people can't agree with.
And they think that he plays a big role, or has done it through time.
Yes, and most of them just follow a minimal meal in the war.
After all, he knows him quite well.
Everyone knows who he is, why he became such a head person in the war.
He has become a head person in the war,
because the Russian authorities and the Russian media have chosen to do it.
It is also what he might have done, this coup attempt.
The Wagner group quickly gets a leading role in the war against Ukraine.
And Prigoshin goes from being an anonymous background man for a secret camp here.
To being a great public personality.
He came out of the ship and said, yes, it's me who's standing in the tip of the wave.
The war is severe.
It was me who established them in 2014.
I did it to be active in Eastern Ukraine.
And that's why in Europe, for the Russians, it was snowing.
We established such a company, such a militia,
who was active in Eastern Ukraine.
And we said to him that he didn't find it.
But that's the way they handle it. That's what they think is snowing.
Since then, since he believed in it, since he came out of the ship,
the Russian authorities and the media have celebrated him as a great hero.
So in a year's time, they have said that Prigoshin is a great hero.
It's Prigoshin who leads the other camps.
It's Prigoshin who leads the troops.
It's Prigoshin who is responsible for the mobilization of the people.
So it turns out that he has one role in the war.
He has some leaders, he has something in Eastern Ukraine
and he plays a role in the front.
So he is also a man who is good at being late.
Yes, he is really good at being late, he uses social media
and he has his followers.
So when you talk about Prigoshin and his achievements,
it's important to remember that there is a part of the Russian society that supports him.
How many do not know?
But I can see in the Russian media, I myself have often tweeted stories from Russian media
where they take his views from social media
and completely disregard them on their own.
And that knows that there is a support for him.
It's good that they do not know what he wants.
But they suspect that he will take up the system,
he will run out into the redness that is around,
for example in foreign ministries and other places.
Look at them!
S**t!
S**t!
He blamed Russia's top defense officials for heavy losses
and accused them of starving his forces of ammunition.
Prigoshin has in months opened his eyes to the most advanced military leadership,
which has been very strange in itself.
But Friday night, his criticism reaches a completely new level
when he shares a sound field at 21 o'clock.
Well, in that sound field, he warns the Ministry of Defense
that they have attacked his troops.
Well, that's actually what I'm looking forward to.
And what Prigoshin says to the media is that
Russian troops have attacked the militant troops
while we are fighting in the eastern Ukraine.
Then they will attack us.
There was no reason for the war.
It's something that the top defense officials have found.
And now we will simply not find out more about it.
And now he will simply answer again
and he announces a fair march against Moscow.
So he is simply thinking to take part of his material and his landscape
and then go to Moscow.
And then he calls for changes in the top of the military system.
He calls for the Minister of Defense to be dismissed
and he calls for General Staff Chief Valeriy Gerazimov to be dismissed.
If these changes do not come,
and if there is no beginning to roll,
then I will soon be in the red spot.
Well, we start with a high-spirited situation in Russia
where a weaponry officer looks like he is playing in these hours.
State media this hour says security measures have been set up in Moscow.
State media also saying Putin is aware of a situation
unfolding around Yevgeny Pergoshin,
the Chief of the Private Wagner Army.
So much so that it is out in the Russian community.
They can sit and follow,
and make sure that there is a certain control over what is happening here.
And the media all over the world also goes into,
so Breaking Ganga 10 has wanted to say,
all Danish media, all international media.
Does it also matter to you that you hear this sound?
Yes, it does. I came home late on Friday.
I was in the city and came home at about 11.30.
And my reading is that Pergoshin is trying to set a trap here
in a way that I cannot say,
now it is happening and now there should be changes.
How does Kremlin react to Pergoshin's attack here?
The Foreign Minister and Kremlin,
Putin's talisman,
so that there is something about these accusations
that the Russian Foreign Minister should have attacked the Wagner troops.
There is a part of it,
so a bit of anger and confusion about how to deal with it.
What can you do?
There is an awareness that the Wagner troops are strong.
Late in the evening,
the Russian Security Minister, FSB,
reports that they are opening a sentence against Pergoshin.
And says that this is a response to the weaponry,
to attack the military.
And that is the status of the Flemings and most others go to bed.
But in the course of the night,
it develops rapidly and rapidly.
At 23.30, the S.F.B. Wagner soldiers
attack their own leaders.
This does not happen
instead of having Pergoshin in time later
that he and his master are in the south-west Russian city of Rostov,
the city where the entire Russian war effort in Ukraine is controlled.
And a couple of hours after that,
at 3 o'clock at night,
Pergoshin writes on the message on Telegram
that they have shot a Russian helicopter down.
Shortly after that, at 4 o'clock,
he swears that he will choose
the most advanced military leadership of the country.
At the same time,
a large military convoy is seen on the M4 motorway
with a direction towards Moscow.
Good morning and welcome to P1 Morning.
When you wake up in the morning and orient yourself
what is the status and what has happened?
This is great.
And then it is out there,
if you are unclear,
what they actually can lead to.
Good morning, Flemings-Biedspogel.
Yes, good morning.
I am looking forward to these.
There are journalists who call me early in the morning
and ask how long it takes to drive to Moscow.
And I actually don't know that from there,
but I also doubt that he will go all the way forward.
So there is a little bit of a question
about what he is planning to do
and how the road looks like out there.
I am thinking about what kind of situation he will meet.
He is planning to go all the way
and maybe stop him on the way.
So my assumption is that they will try to stop him
before he is too close to him.
We will not repeat this.
Saturday morning at 9 o'clock,
Putin talks to the people of Russia.
We will protect our people
and our state from any threat.
I think he seems a little stressed.
At the same time, he is also very direct,
very firm in his speech.
He chooses to escalate.
He talks about treachery.
He talks about getting stuck in the back
while you are in the war.
And then he uses the 1917 analogy.
During the First World War,
Russia is involved in the First World War.
It goes really bad.
And at a certain point,
some soldiers choose to throw their weapons
and run home.
And there are other soldiers who turn up,
but they take their weapons with them
so 1917 marks the revolution in Russia.
And if there is anything that the Putin can't like,
then it is revolutionaries.
So Putin uses the analogy
to tell the Russians in a simple and simple way
that this is what is at stake.
It is the regime's survival that is at stake.
It is the state's survival that is at stake.
And therefore I need to handle this very firmly.
And it is also my security and stability.
It is also my security and stability,
my future.
What can you say about the regime?
Because it is the life of the people we have.
It is not the words he uses,
but it is something that lies in the analogy.
So it is a rhetorical term he uses in 1917.
And then the Russians understand that
the chaos that begins there
can not be accepted.
And how is his speech an escalation?
He later puts it in a very violent way
that now we have to deal with a father
who is stalking us in the back
while we are in this hard, hard battle.
And it is completely unacceptable.
So he puts it in a very violent way.
But despite Putin's great speech
the people of Helmut Breguschen are not.
In the course of Lördagen
you can follow how the Wagner column
will always be closer and closer
to Moscow.
Messers have the panthered
men's army, combat army,
air defense systems
and mobile rocket systems.
It is about 250 miles
south of Moscow.
It is necessary to do something
or at least choose to do something.
This with the invaders in Moscow
Moscow region
they are warned that they will get into a door
and get close to each other.
It sounds very, very violent.
Yes, it is very violent
and it is of course also because of the people
who are there.
It is basically a wish to keep people away from the streets
if something happens. It is much easier
for the police and security forces to navigate
if there are no people on the streets.
The situation is also in this case
that these Wagner troops
actually go all the way to Moscow.
What is important for you to keep an eye on?
It is of course
how they move forward.
How they move forward, how far they come
and how they get into the streets
up to about 200 kilometers
from Moscow. And then of course
there is a lot of attention to how the Russian media
covers this hundred ways.
And there we can say
that there are some instructions
on how to cover this
and how to make it very sharp.
All the talks about security,
all the talks about trying to open a cup
all the talks about having to hold it
very, very tightly.
So we can say that the confrontation
is building up right now
in the course of these hours.
The people of Prigoshin come to Moscow
and the authorities are ready to accept
this under no circumstances.
So I am waiting
for the climax
that might come when they stand together
in one way or another.
Thanks to the fact that this column
comes closer and closer to Moscow
and so relatively quickly, you also start to think
what if this succeeds?
What happens if they actually
move forward to Moscow?
What is the consequence of this?
Yes, it does, but I have a suspicion
that they will stop Prigoshin
at a time point before
they, for example, liquidate him
eliminate him, take him completely out of the line
maybe in some way
if they can, or hit hard on these troops.
Do you think that this does not happen
before they reach
so relatively close to Moscow?
Why does this column
and Prigoshin do not get the bomb
liquidated?
Yes, it does, but we also have to be honest
to say that it has developed so much
so far quickly and in some small
stages where it is difficult
to put yourself down and say
it is now necessary to say
exactly where this column is
and how long is there until
and so on.
But of course I wonder
what can happen to be his goal
and I do not really know
what Prigoshin had to think about.
I think we should not agree
with him to think that the retreating
Putin and the rebels in the Kremlin
will at least be very dramatic
and super controversial.
In the top of the military system.
And
I should also be honest, I am not sure
about Prigoshin's whole thought
there Friday night when he gets
a ready-made bridge and decides
to escalate the situation, but soon
he sets off and thinks
now we have to see what is happening.
And my reading is also that he may
think that
it is not certain that I can go all the way
forward, maybe we should try
to see if we can discuss
it.
That is, now I will not say
that you feel confused, but
I think it is a bit chaotic in the
mood, just for you when you follow
it, because it goes so fast and
the reports, they move forward
and the whole thing is constantly
characterized. Do you actually think
that the Kremlin has had it in the same way?
Yes, I think they have had it and
I think it is important for us to try to
understand when we have to analyze
this and we have to understand where it
is, there are some power dynamics
that will change and we will not see
them.
And even those actors who are close to
can not see them.
So I imagine the situation where
Brigodian has set off and he has
thought that he has been reassured that
he wanted to get support when people
want to let him pass and he could
run a good amount of time without
anything happening.
But he may have been unsure if there
will be a resistance that will
happen.
But there were some who were
willing to insist on this and
Brigodian on his side may have
been convinced that he has the
loyalty towards people and that
there are some who will fight for me.
And Brigodian knows well that
Brigodian is popular and even if
he wants to build it up, he can
take care that there is support for
Brigodian around.
So Brigodian could also have been
convinced.
So Brigodian is still in
the process of running
and then he announces to Brigodian
that he stops them and he
wins over and runs back.
New development in Ruslan
led by Wagnergruppen stops
the movement of his soldiers in
Ruslan.
Around 19.30 Lörta joins
the white Russian president
Lukasenko, suddenly there is
an agreement with Brigodian.
We can't tell you the details
but the basic principle is
that these Wagner soldiers
are free of charge, that Brigodian
is offered an upholst called
Tassyl in Belarus and that
the Russian Security
Service drops all the enclosures
that have been against him.
Four minutes later Brigodian
observes the agreement in Lydfil
and announces that his soldiers
retreat.
Responsibility
for the door.
When you hear that this is a
fixed agreement, signed by both parties
do you think it is a good agreement
he has received?
No, I think Brigodian has paid
a relatively high price for it.
I also think Pusin has paid
a relatively high price for it.
It has been said earlier that
they may have both been suspicious of
how much support they had, how long
they could pull this one.
Sooner than
Brigodian would be arrested,
and sooner than
Pusin would be released,
then they would have to do something else
and that's what they both did.
My point of view is that
it is not a very good agreement
for Brigodian, but there can be
nothing in it that we don't know
until he seems to be very satisfied
but a Tassyl in Belarus
I don't think he had agreed with
for the whole morning and
that he would still have
some money on him.
I think he is not going to live
much longer.
Then it is difficult for him to
suddenly move out or drink a
cup of tea.
But now we have to see that there are
some guarantees.
There are a lot of experts out there
saying now that Brigodian is
more or less as good as dead
after the weekend game here.
Do you agree that he is
as good as dead?
No, I don't.
Pusin has to cement his power
again.
I imagine that after all this
he has sat in a dark room
with a lot of trusted employees
and talked about who is with me,
who is against me, who can stand on,
who should be fired, who should be released.
Already now I am trying
to repair these damage
because there has been a lot of damage.
Then I think that he
will try to get rid of Brigodian
when he feels very powerful.
But it can also be that
Pusin is afraid to come with
Brigodian because
there can be people inside the
systems who do not want to accept it.
There can be people inside the systems
who sympathize with Brigodian
and what he stands for.
In all this game that it has unfolded
it is clear that Pusin is responsible.
He was very clear in his speech,
it was violent, it was direct,
it was directed at.
The Russian media are trying already now
to build Pusin up again,
to say that his great strength
is that he does not react so impulsive
and violent.
So what the Russians are getting to know now
is that Pusin did not like it,
it is just his style to be
after things like to seek dialogue.
Already now there is a knowledge
that he should rebuild, he should rebuild
politically.
And in that situation it can be
that he does not like it.
Is it not only about
that Brigodian has played
his role in this war
and in the fight with the power in the Kremlin?
No, I do not feel convinced
that he has played his role.
We do not know
how big the rise of Brigodian is
around and that Pusin does not know.
There is clearly a lot.
I could only see it in the media,
there are parts of the population
supporting him, there are parts of the research
that are corrupt, that buy
animals and animals in the west
and so on. They are tired of it.
And they see Brigodian in a way that
one of them can give up. They hope
at least he will.
So there are many, many unknown and it
comes back to these power dynamics
that we cannot predict, but that we
of course know is there and they
change quickly.
To say every day you are
so close to the team, there are
a lot of people around in Russia
what should I do and so on and so forth.
So even if this is a
concern and still is, as in a way
is developed all the time, and it is
difficult and what can one say,
hand-tight things about something,
so what one can see is
that despite a cup of sweets
was put down, then Pusin
suddenly looks much more
sad for everyone, both friends
and enemies.
Yes, he looks much more sad.
He himself has created waves.
He has used them, so he has created
monsters that now suddenly have turned around
and he is still weak
that he can't fight with waves.
He can't survive without waves
because then he can't lead the war.
He can't continue the war without waves.
Then he is caught in an extremely
difficult situation, but he has created it himself.
What is it for him?
What is it for Pusin that
he has revealed
that he is not so strong, he is not
so much in control, he is not so
powerful as we thought he was
and as he might have thought he was.
This is
a great blow he has taken.
We need to prepare ourselves
to create something dramatic.
We need to see this all the time, and it can be that
we live a day in need of Pusin deciding
whether to go to the pension or something else,
and then we are in a completely different place.
But his escape status has come closer
and what is happening is that
they smell it around the circles
around Pusin, the inner circle
around the inner circle.
They smell it, they want to get rid of
what is happening to each other.
It will be extremely important for Pusin
to try to sit down on this again
and then say
I have what I need and what they will try
to do to find him political.
So what do you keep in your eyes
with the coming years?
I keep my eyes on the general
of Pusin and the whole situation.
At the beginning there might be
some comments that attack
are there any of the Russian media
who want to know how this could happen
how could they get so close to each other
how could there be these conflicts?
So I keep my eyes on
if there will be any complaints about this.
It will be really exciting to see.
Okay, Flemming, thank you for sitting.
Thank you.
Behind today's screen is
Barbara Jensen, Elyse Nordman,
Linnie Fabrius, Søren Elbig
and me, Anna Ingris.
Machine-generated transcript that may contain inaccuracies.
Det russiske folk kan ånde lettet op efter at have kigget ind i det, der ligner et væbnet oprør mod Putin. Det begynder med en vred besked fra Wagnerchefen, Prigozjin fredag aften, hvor han beskylder russiske styrker for at have angrebet og dræbt tusindvis af hans soldater. Lørdag morgen udvikler det sig så til det, der ligner et regulært kupforsøg. 4000 svært bevæbnede mænd fra den private Wagner-hær bevæger sig underligt uforstyrret mod den russiske hovedstad, Moskva, mod Putins Kreml. Men så stopper det brat - næsten lige så pludseligt som det gik i gang. Flemming Splidsboel, seniorforsker på Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, udlægger weekendens mislykkede mytteri og de rystelser, det har sendt gennem Kreml.
Vært: Anna Ingrisch.