You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday, the 27th of June.

President Putin defends Russia's slow military response to the Wagner mutiny.

He spoke hours after the Wagner boss,

you have Gennie Pregusion released a defiant message of his own.

Ukraine, meanwhile, says it's made more gains in its counteroffensive,

as President Zelensky visited the front line.

And Israel's right-wing government approves plans for more than 5,000 new homes

in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Also in the podcast, we look back at the life of the creator of the Lithium battery.

John Goodenoff, who's died at the age of 100.

And...

I've witnessed myself, people, in a catatonic state,

that have been revitalised.

The Moroccan band who opened the Glaston-Refesteval.

As fighters from the Wagner group drove towards Moscow on Saturday,

they were reports that the Russian president had fled.

In the end, the rebellion was called off before the mercenaries reached the capital,

but Vladimir Putin's authority had already been seriously undermined.

Two days later, he's tried to get back on the front foot,

meeting his security chiefs, and making a short,

...