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From Our Own Correspondent

The Wagner mutiny in Russia

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Wagner mutiny in Russia; and other stories from Russia, Peru, Bangladesh and Denmark. The mutiny by Russia's Wagner mercenaries ended as quickly as it started. The fighters had taken the southern Russian city and military hub Rostov-on-Don, and were heading for Moscow, when their leader called it all off. How do the capital's residents view these events? Russia says it has lost 6000 soldiers in Ukraine, but the true figure is thought to be 40,000 to 60,000. Olga Ivshina has been tracking her country's military fatalities with other volunteers, and has so far counted 25,000. Sometimes their relatives didn't even know they had died. Peru is suffering its worst outbreak of dengue fever on record, following unusually hot and wet weather conditions. The viral disease is carried by mosquitoes and can cause severe joint and muscle pain, even death. Dan Collyns travelled to the centre of Peru's epidemic in Piura in northern Peru. Bangladesh used to have high rates of pregnancy or childbirth-related deaths, and of children dying in infancy due to low rates of vaccination. But now illness and deaths have been drastically reduced, thanks to the "disease detectives" scheme - women offering healthcare to millions. Peter Young went to see how it works. Denmark's small prison population has been growing due to harsher sentencing, but the number of prison officers is falling, leading to concerns about overcrowding, and the quality of the prison regime. Polina Bachlakova found the impact is even felt in a prison’s choir. Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross Editor: Richard Vadon Photo: Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaving Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Copyright: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

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0:00.0

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0:05.7

Many Russian soldiers who lost their lives not just in Ukraine but as far back as World

0:10.6

War II have remained unidentified, we go to help locate and count them.

0:17.6

Peru has been suffering its worst ever season of dengue fever, a viral illness spread

0:23.5

by mosquitoes how are they coping in the centre of the outbreak in the north of the country.

0:29.3

In Bangladesh, however, there's good news on the health front, so-called disease detectives

0:34.9

have made a difference to millions, so who are they?

0:38.7

And what does a quire for inmates tell us about the state of Danish prisons, quite a lot

0:44.3

it seems?

0:45.9

But we start with the uprising of the Russian Wagner mercenary fighters, led by Yvgeny Prigozin,

0:52.8

who's now in exile in Belarus.

0:55.7

After playing a key role in the war in Ukraine, such as in the long battle of attrition

1:00.3

for the city of Bachbut, Prigozin launched a rebellion inside Russia last Friday, ordering

1:06.6

his private army to seize key military hubs and head north to Moscow.

1:12.6

President Putin called it treason, then suddenly the mutiny was off.

1:17.4

How has all this been seen in the Russian capital?

1:20.6

We hear from someone who knows, but to protect their identity, their dispatch is spoken

1:25.7

by an actor.

1:27.8

Last Friday night I asked my cab driver, is your satnav working all right?

1:33.4

When security in Moscow is heightened, authorities scramble GPS signals and drivers get lost.

1:40.2

And that night security measures were at fever pitch.

1:44.1

600 miles away, Rostov on Don, the largest city in the Russian south, was being taken

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