Wagner leader in anti-Kremlin rant & Russia orders evacuations 'ahead of Ukrainian counter-offensive'
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Day 435.
Today, we discuss the extraordinary videos from Yevgheny Prighozin, the head of the Wagner group, who filmed himself in front of dead Wagner soldiers and blamed Moscow for a shortage of ammunition. He even threatens to retreat from Bakhmut by the 10 May.
Plus, we analyse how Russian state media is treating the alleged drone strike on the Kremlin and hear diplomatic updates from across the world.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Genevieve Holl-Allen (Foreign Correspondent). @genevieve_holl on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former NATO Commander & Telegraph Columnist). @HamishDBG on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:15.6 | Today we discuss the extraordinary videos from Evgeny Progoshin, the head of the Wagner |
| 0:20.0 | Group, who filmed himself in front of dead Wagner soldiers and blamed Moscow for a shortage |
| 0:24.0 | of ammunition, even threatening to retreat from Bakmut by the 10th of May. |
| 0:28.1 | We also analyse how Russian state media is treating the alleged drone strike on the |
| 0:31.4 | Kremlin and hear diplomatic updates from across the world. |
| 0:35.0 | Pravering takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:45.2 | This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in vain. |
| 0:51.1 | We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield |
| 0:56.5 | to win the war. |
| 1:04.9 | Every weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London |
| 1:08.1 | Newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis |
| 1:12.9 | on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:14.4 | It's Friday, the 5th of May, one year and 70 days since the full scale invasion began. |
| 1:20.4 | And today I'm joined by our Associate Editor for Defence Dominic Nichols, Assistant |
| 1:24.2 | Comment Editor Francis Dernley, Foreign reporter Genevieve Hall Allen, and former tank |
| 1:28.9 | commander and Telegraph writer Hamish De Breton Gordon. |
| 1:31.9 | I started by asking Don for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:35.2 | Hi David, hi everybody, so I guess it is Ukraine, but we're not exactly sure. |
| 1:42.2 | There's a very, very odd video clip going around social media, you'll find it is on |
| 1:47.1 | our live blog at the moment on our website so you can have a look there. |
| 1:50.6 | So this is what it's purporting to be from yesterday and it shows our old chum Yavgeny |
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