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Yeah. Hello and welcome to the Friday episode of Battleground Ukraine with me, Patrick Bishop and Saul David.

Well, what a week it's been, perhaps most dramatic since the full-scale invasion began 16 long months ago. The Wagner mutiny,

Prygesian's failed putch, call it what you like, has exposed what looked like very serious weaknesses in the regime of Vladimir Putin, and many are predicting that it may well mark the

end of his long rule. We'll be looking into how likely that is and how the end might come

about. We'll be examining how things came to such a pass, analysing Putin's options and what the

future holds for Brigodzion and Wagner, but also trying to see what this all means for Ukraine as

their big push gathers momentum, with their forces taking back for the first time, territories lost

way back in 2014. But first, let's recap the wild and dramatic events of the last days,

which not even the most imaginative scriptwriter could have invented. As the situation now stands,

Yevgeny Progogion is still a player in the big game, despite the fact that his mutiny

appears to have failed. And negotiations about his status and the status of Wagner are continuing.

There have been reports that Progogsion didn't hang around too long after his initial departure

to Minsk. His private jet was reported to have taken off from an airfield in Belarus,

off to Russia,

went first to Moscow, and then immediately afterwards left for St. Petersburg.

Now, former Russian officer and prominent critical mill blogger, though still an ultra-nationalist,

Igor Gherkin, is claiming that Pregojohn returned to Russia to negotiate with unspecified officials and Wagner associates. Now, the respected Institute for the Study of

Warfare, which we often cite here, believes this is possible, and that Progoshin may have

returned briefly to work out further details of the initial deal negotiated by the Belarusian

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