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Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. Hello and welcome to the Battleground Ukraine podcast with me, Patrick Bishop and Saul David.

It's been an extraordinary week in the extraordinary story of the Wagner Group Chief Yevgeny Pregoszhen.

Only a few weeks ago, it seemed that his star was waning and he was a strong candidate

for the chop, both literally and figuratively. Instead, it seems he's back in favor with a man

who matters, Vladimir Putin, who's just made a visit to the Kersson and Lukansk areas. We'll be

discussing what this says about the state of Russia and what it means for events on the battlefield.

We'll also be looking at the ongoing ramifications of the big leaked US Pentagon intelligence dump.

Now, as we predicted last week, it didn't take long to find the culprit.

And we'll also be looking at the way the war is changing the diplomatic landscape,

as China moves to gain maximum advantage from the new realities

that have been created.

So let's start off with Progogsin.

All the evidence is that Putin's intervened to knock heads together and end the long-running

row between the Minister of Defence and Wagner.

He's also just visited commanders in the occupied Kersson and Luchenska blasts, thereby identifying

himself as a war leader, which I would have thought ties his reputation and his fortunes very

tightly to the outcome of the fighting of the next few months.

Now, it seems that he's relying quite heavily on Wagner to perform for him.

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