the key question — what would happen to wagner after the death of yevgeniy prigozhin?s mercenary boss had been killed. there was less certainty about what would happen to his wagner empire. now, we know. so, there was a meeting in the kremlin fairly shortly after the mutiny. in which it was decided that wagner�*s africa operations would fall directly under the control of russian military intelligence, the giu. it was broken into two components, the volunteer corps fighting in ukraine. and the expeditionary corps, under the control of this man, general andrey averyanov. he was commander of unit 29155, said to be behind the poisonings on the streets of salisbury. this is the man now running operations in africa. the question is, what are they up to? so, these are just some of the internal russian documents that we have been given access to. our colleague from the bbc russian service has been taking me through them. these detail what the russian state can offer governments in west africa, taking up the role that was previously done by wagner. and offering them what they c

the key question — what would happen to wagner after the death of yevgeniy prigozhin?e know. joe inwood has more. this was the yevgeny prigozhin on his final tour of africa. a few weeks later, he would be dead. at the time, few doubted why the mutinous mercenary boss had been killed. there was less certainty about what would happen to his wagner empire. now we know. so, there was a meeting in the kremlin fairly shortly after the mutiny. in which it was decided that wagner's africa operations would fall directly under the control of russian military intelligence, the giu. it was broken into two components, the volunteer corps fighting in ukraine. and the expeditionary corps, under the control of this man, general andrey averyanov. he was commander of the unit 29155, said to be behind the poisoning on the streets of salisbury. this is the man now running operations in africa. the question is, what are they up to? so, these are just some of internal russian documents that we have been given access to by our colleague from the bbc russian service. she has been taking me th

this is yevgeny prigozhin during his last trip to africa. in a few weeks he will die few people doubted why the leader of the naymantsy rebellion was killed. instead, no one could have predicted what was to come for wagner's empire. now we know. almost immediately after prigozhin's mutiny , a meeting was held in the kremlin, at which it was decided that the control over wagner's operation in africa would be completely taken over by... russian military intelligence, gur. the operation was divided into two parts: a volunteer corps fighting in ukraine, and an expeditionary corps under the control of this man, general andriy averyanov. he commanded unit no 2915, which is said to have been involved in the poisoning of sergei and yulia skripal. he currently manages operations in africa. here is a detailed description of what is russian. can offer governments, such as those in west africa, by taking on the role previously played by wagner and offering what they call a regime survival package. the regime survival package is what the russians describ

. -- prigozhin. he was aware _ here, i believe. -- prigozhin.-- prigozhin. | he was aware that his life was in danger and had spoken about that. do you think we will ever know, will his family know what happened to him? i know, will his family know what happened to him?— know, will his family know what happened to him? i hope so, and i think it happened to him? i hope so, and i think it is _ happened to him? i hope so, and i think it is crucial _ happened to him? i hope so, and i think it is crucial at _ happened to him? i hope so, and i think it is crucial at this - i think it is crucial at this moment for the international community to demand a full and impartial investigation into his death. we've seen that the russian government is clearly incapable and unwilling to do such an investigation. we saw that several years ago in 2020 when alexei navalny was poisoned by a nerve agent. i think it is essential for the civilised world, for the free world do not limit itself to statements of condemnation but to demand a full investigation. it is the i

or now navalny, of course prigozhin, prigozhin . it was, in principle, the hope that something mighthis state, well, plus it is beautiful, no matter how strange it sounds, he still remains the number two politician in the russian federation, that is, his overall level of trust is almost 50%, and even today. well, thank you, mr. vadim, for the answers, thank you for being with us, vadim denysenko, political expert, journalist, in touch with us, because it is now 15. 0:0 is approaching, iryna koval is already with her team has prepared a selection of the most important, freshest information and is ready to share it with us. irina, i congratulate you on your word. thank you oksana, well, literally in a moment about the most important events, wait. 3:00 p.m. in ukraine, for your attention, a news release on espresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, greetings to all viewers. during the four months of the active phase of the avdiyiv defense operation , the defense forces eliminated 47,000 soldiers. also, our soldiers destroyed 1,365 units of enemy equipment.

it's like when prigozhin suddenly it was killed in his airplane. everybody knew what was behind that. so we're never going to get a straight story from russian propaganda, but we understand exactly what's going on here. the problem is that no matter at or what vice president harris says to this group today, her ability to make long-term commitments to the ukrainians zero given the upcoming election, given the situation, the house of representatives, given what former president trump has been saying about nato and about ukraine over the past month. remember, president biden just months ago, just months ago said and that the united states will stand with ukraine for as long as it takes, whatever it takes, months later, he says, well, as long as we can, those are two very different things. and here in the munich security conference, that means that the united states looks weak, looks like it can't be committed up on and that's a serious problem. and i think no matter what she says they're going to be waiting to hear what soon to be republican nominee

i think prigozhin spoke from his heart when he pointed out to to immense incompetence and corruption in the higher echelons of of the russian armed forces. but i think the the you know the idea here i think for putin to tackle corruption is to tackle one of the foundations of his regime. as i mentioned, you know, he he he discovered that unlike his much soviet predecessor, admired him. he he he realized that could be actually more effective by bribing than by because because it if if if you give them something in they buy or they steal enough to have essentially upper middle class european live or better and you threaten to take it away. it's just as effective or even more effective than terror. next right here. thank you very much, kristen foulston. the huntsville foundation has the inside of foundation be had to shut down our office. you know, last year after after a conscious attack on the queen. thanks for this fascinating talk. so my question is why there is no lily of resistance in and within the boston here to putin, how do you explain like, say, the gay who started as a perfo

victory at bakhmut, but it turned out this way , we remember that this victory for ourselves took prigozhin pvk wagner, and it turned out that no matter how strong the russian army was, they only had defeats on their accounts. and the only victory that was given to them with a large number of casualties was the victory of wagner, and again, the russian army did not show any victories, so something was important to them to take, they looked for a place, and for several months they found that avdiyivka was in such a semi-surrounded state since the first days of the full-scale invasion, that is why maximum efforts and the best military units were thrown there, and for several months the struggle for this settlement went on, and the last... a lot of times we've seen that with air superiority, with artillery superiority, with manpower, they've still forced us into positions, so for them, i think they're going to spin this the victory is quite serious, just like the victory there of russian weapons politically under putin, well , that's what they did it for and for that they put a large number of

this was yevgeny prigozhin on his final tour of africa.. at the time, few doubted why the mutinous mercenary boss had died in a mysterious plane crash. there was less certainty about what would happen to his wagner empire. but now we know. so there was a meeting in the kremlin fairly shortly after prigohzin's mutiny, in which it was decided that wagner's africa operations would fall directly under the control of russian military intelligence, the gru. wagner has been broken into two components — the volunteer corps fighting in ukraine, and the expeditionary corps under the control of this man, general andrey averyanov. he was the commander of unit 29155, said to be behind the poisoning of sergei and yulia skripal on the streets of salisbury. this is the man now running russian operations in africa. now this is the russian state coming out and saying, we are entering into these defence and cooperation agreements, we are deploying forces, and so that means that a lot of the constraints on the scale at which they were operating are removed. t

the fact i that they been the play of ukraine, the amount of coverage and analytical coverage of prigozhininstituted like those fantastic reports from the house of commons that detailed the wagner threat and we can see the wagner threat and we can see the wagner threat to being named as a transacting chain or even a terrorist group by many western countries. but that is being better understood but we still have a long way to go in terms of actually preempting the expansion of these theatres, and now that prigozhin is gone, it is possible that wagner in its new form and try to expand its frontiers to new countries. interesting. thank you very much indeed. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. voiceover: bbc news - bringing you different - stories from across the uk. with its origins in the street for all of south america, futsal bounds into play at a salford sport centre. wearing kits to match their surroundings, pupils at light 0aksjunior school in the city have been giving it a thumbs up. it�*s a bit better than football in a way because, in football, you�*re mostlyjust bl

. >> however, what >> the people of russia are thinking is very unclear and we went back to prigozhin. we've talked a little bit about that when prigozhin rose against the military and against the kremlin, he struck a chord to a populist note that is dangerous for the kremlin because it's very unpredictable. they don't really, truly know what the russian people are thinking >> yeah. >> of >> course. >> i want to bring you back in because look, this isn't happening in a vacuum here and back in 2022, navalny wrote an op-ed in the washington post where he said in part in the context of the ukrainian russian war, while i commend european leaders for their ongoing success in supporting ukraine, i urged them not to lose sight of the fundamental causes of war, the threat to peace and stability in europe is aggressive the imperial authoritarianism endlessly inflicted by russia upon itself. so look, while we don't have the confirm the exact cause or nature of death at this point. how does the symbolism of his reported death in a russian prison further that described dynamic of aggressive imper

putin is feeling the wind in his sails after recently taking on prigozhin.cture putin is doing this because number one he has a long history of doing it, also, number two, he thinks he will be able to get away with it. i think this is why me and others for the past two years have said, listen, the initial sanctions package against the russians after they invaded ukraine was a decent sanctions package. but it was never followed up with secondary sanctions. we still have the same stuff on the books from two years ago. the two-year anniversary of putin invading ukraine at the end of next week. and we still have the same sanctions on the book. it was never fossilled up. >> brian: all right, morgan, thanks so much. appreciate it. morgan ortagus giving perspective on the death of navalny. more on this in just a moment. you are watching "fox & friends." ♪ choice hotels is a family of brands with a hotel for any traveler you want to be. like #1 chef dad, cookin' up a free, hot breakfast for the entire family at a comfort hotel. mom made this. umm, i... added the gar

it was here that the local military paid tribute to yevgeny prigozhin after his death.veryone who crossed paths with wagner would have had such positive memories of the mercenaries. but it's now clear that their actions here were the blueprint for russia's expansion in africa and its ever—growing influence. that's all from us tonight. victoria is here tomorrow. goodbye. spain's interior ministry confirmed to us a man had been shot several times. they wouldn't confirm it was mr kuzminov, but his identity has been widely reported in spanish media who say he was shot, then run over in this garage. spanish officials say the body was found with false documents. we've searched the internet for traces of a new identity. we can't find any social media use since kuzminov left russia. last night, russian television talked again of betrayal. this commander says, "god will now be kuzminov�*s judge, and that retribution will find him." but a number of questions remain unanswered tonight about who exactly killed maksim kuzminov and whether this could be another extrajudicial murder o

putin did it to prigozhin. is no structure of government in russia today, unlike even cold war days when there was the bureau to tell them, time to retire after the cuban missile crisis. the only way to change the regime would be by coup d'etat by the military or security services. i think putin believes he has survived a number of threats. notwithstanding the human cost to russia of the war in ukraine, he feels still in charge. anchor: anchor: you said no international repercussions. president biden said there will be consequences. what do you think those should be? >> honestly, international figures are very good at expressing outrage when it come -- outrage. when it comes to delivering hard consequences, not so much. russia has been under sanctions for two years now. its economy is still humming along. it's getting supplies from north korea. certainly indirect assistance from china in financial markets and oil and gas purchases. tightening sanctions and making them effective would be a good place to start to

prigozhin last dead. there was prigozhin last yean dead. year, litvinenko before that, bofis year, litvinenko before that, boris nemtsov, who was another , boris nemtsov, who was another, uh, of political , uh, another sort of political, uh, another sort of political, uh, political enemy. >> wasn't there a previous novichok attack on, uh, it was in 2020 nearly killed him on a plane. yeah, yeah. so it's not like this is out of the ordinary. this is something that we would expect. >> i'm amazed he lived as long as he did. well, actually >> i'm amazed he lived as long as heto d. well, actually >> i'm amazed he lived as long as heto the iell, actually >> i'm amazed he lived as long as heto the trouble actually >> i'm amazed he lived as long as heto the trouble of:ually >> i'm amazed he lived as long as heto the trouble of making went to the trouble of making a documentary what his documentary about what his message should be. after he was nobbled. message should be. after he was nobbliti. message should be. after he was nobb|it on the day his ai

then there is no, further, africa, now, in fact , all of central africa is burning with war after prigozhin from there, in general with his death, and wars began there between his factions, and in fact, starting with sudan, central africa, military conflicts have arisen everywhere, but no one even says anything about it anywhere. the situation on the arabian peninsula, it has already, ah, put the whole world economy on a mine for slow action, and everyone can see this by the rise in prices, i am not talking about the fact that today 30% of europe depends on liquefied gas , which came through the soviet channel, are forced to deliver through the cape of good hope, this is +10 -14

if there is no problem, further, africa, now in fact central africa is all ablaze with war, after prigozhinas expelled from there, in general with his death, and wars between his factions began there, and in fact... starting from sudan, central africa, military conflicts arose everywhere, but even about that no one says anything anywhere at all. the situation on the arabian peninsula has already, ah, put the whole world economy on a mine for a slow nodia. and everyone can see this from the rise in prices, i am not talking about the fact that today 30% of europe's dependence on liquefied gas, which came through the soviet channel, is forced to deliver through the cape of good hope, this is a plus 10-14 days, this is an increase in tariffs and so on, that is, these things have already taken a back seat, and at the same time it is clear that topics related to aid of ukraine, from the strengthening of the industrial potential of defense europe and so on, and they are not actively being followed at all now, but... in the international information space, from here, i already see and recommend the

there was a >> brief moment when people thought that putin had been weakened last summer during the prigozhin uprising and now there is a sense that putin is reasserting his control will be there for a long time and that europe and the united states have to get ready for a prolonged confrontation with bouton. and i think putin senses that as well. and he wanted to go into this with zero opposition, no way for him to have any cracks domestically i think even in death, navalny will have that reputation for courage that you heard clarissa describing. >> i think he could >> continue from the grid brave, assuming with these reports are true to be sort of the organizing fall behind the russian opposition. and there's no way that putin can do away with that. >> now, that is for sure, david stay with us. we want to take a closer look now at the life of electing navalny. here's cnn's matthew chance blogger, >> lawyer turned opposition politician and anti-corruption campaigner alexey navalny was a menace the kremlin, who's not afraid to call president putin out directly. >> gosal to it. then you told c

tricked there, immediately removed from the elections, and what an interesting trend. .. we saw that prigozhin’sebellion is also in any and even navalny’s, i.e. opposition movements, which are still pseudo-oppositional among russians, but those that can be somehow very, you know, strainedly classified, he cleans everything up, because i think he has intelligence where he sees what after all, the tension in russian society is beginning to grow and they are trying... to nip it in the bud, the issue here is not even the mass of people, even if they call it up, even if they collect it there, the issue of mobilization resources is it can be in a mathematical dimension and large, but this mass needs to be controlled, it needs to be trained, prepared, it is necessary to compensate those male population who are removed from jobs, to some, whatever... there were no additional demands for payments to the population, but what for sure for they are the most problematic, it is not officers and non-commissioned officers who would control this mass and actually lead it into battle, i am not talking about the f

explosion of anger, well, it seems to me that it is enough naively i would say that the death of yevgeny prigozhin greater consequences for russia and for the whole world. well, it is telling that navalny's death was announced. on the first day of the munich security conference, and in principle, on such a day way, putin, who is not participating for the simple reason that he has an arrest warrant from the iss, putin is participating in this international security conference, he is telling this world that i kill, i killed, and no one will stop me, and this also in the style of vladimir putin himself, isn't it? yes, this is absolutely in putin's style and... and i think that ukraine has a good opportunity to use this tragic situation for its own purposes. let me explain how: navalny spent his last time in a camp behind the arctic circle. not in the same camp, though oleg sentsov, a ukrainian director and now a military man, was also held behind the arctic circle for a long time. i think we would benefit a lot, as ukraine, from oleg sentsov now going on tour and telling how to survive in a camp beyo

cheering patriots under the banner of strilkov or someone else, well, no one expected, for example, the prigozhinok place and arose, but it is also possible that some kind of consensus decision was made there, for example, in naryshkin's structures or in patrushev's structures, and they will say, well, it's always unprofitable for us, we need something to decide, and in the end his cronies will make such a decision, they will say, here we need to change the flag, we need to change the brand, we are doing another rebranding, and instead of putin's brand there will be some other brand, theoretically , this situation is quite important, the question is when? well, here we have to turn to a mathematician from moscow, volodymyr lefebvre, who went to the united states back in 1982, unfortunately, he has already died, but he made a pretty good algorithm for calculating such questions, and the anacondo plan was actually based on this algorithm there and the fact that the soviet union was collapsing. i will send our readers to the book "algebra of conscience", i hope that... well, let's reveal the secret,

won a victory at bakhmut, but it turned out this way, we remember that this victory was taken by prigozhin pvk wagmer, and it turned out like this , that no matter how strong the russian army is, they ... had only defeats on their accounts, and the only victory that was given to them with a large number of victims was the victory of wagner, and again, the russian army does not show any victories, so it was important to them to take something, they looked for a place and for several months they found that avdiyivka has been in such a semi-surrounded state since the first days of the full-scale invasion, so maximum efforts and the best military units were thrown there, and for several months it went because... for this populated point, and we've seen lately that by using air superiority, using artillery superiority, in personnel, they've still forced us back into position, so for them, i think they're going to spin this the victory is quite serious, just like the victory of russian weapons there, politically under putin, well, that's what they did it for, and for that they put a large number

two years of war, huge losses, mobilization and the prigozhin rebellion. as well as repression. oleksiy navalny died in prison. but the president looks confident . vladimir putin feels that the situation can change in his favor, but what is his goal? he wants the whole world to live on his terms. i don't think he wants to take over poland, the baltic states or western europe. he needs ukraine, but even this is not enough for him. he wants the world to follow his rules, to accept his vision of the world. how has everything changed, or was there ever a time when russia and the west talked about cooperation and partnership? putin, with whom i met, with whom we founded the russia-nato council, was different, very far from the megalomania that characterizes him now. that is, the person with whom i stood next to in may 2002, very close. said then, ukraine is a sovereign independent state that can accept its own security decisions, now this is a man who says that this is not a nation, not a state, and should be erased from the face of the earth. vladimir putin once told me during a pre

along the northern ukrainian border, now i am talking about belarus, we remember that after the prigozhin rebellion, part of the wagnerites went there, so less than a thousand of them remain there, and what are they doing, they continue to teach belarusians troops they assume so, this is what british intelligence says, they have their information and say that it is unlikely that they will do anything else there, it is unlikely that lukashenko will agree to perform any other functions there, well, then from those northern borders, we will move to the front line, in particular in the bakhmut region, and the head of the chasovoyariv city military administration serhiy chaus, mr. serhiy, congratulations, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, congratulations. in your direction, at least some maps have been analyzed by those who are a little late, the institute for the study of war, and they say that south of bakhmut our troops even managed not only to repulse there, but also to advance, well, this information is the most recent, let’s say so, but it all the way across the ocean, and we want t

last august evgeny prigozhin died, the mercenary who led an armed mutiny in russia. said it was an accident. in 2015, leading opposition politician boris nemtsov was killed on a bridge in the shadow of red square, again, the kremlin denied any role. and it's notjust inside russia. in 2018, sergei skripal who spied for britain was targeted in salisbury along with his daughter, novichok, the same nerve agent once used on navalny nearly killed them. and in 2006, there was the death of alexander litvinenko, a former intelligence officer and fierce critic of putin, poisoned with radioactive polonium in london. since vladimir putin gave the order for the invasion of ukraine two years ago, questions have grown about how far russia's leader is willing to go. ukraine's president had to say today. translation: ukraine's president had to say toda .translation: , ., , , by putin. like thousands of killed by putin. like thousands of others who have been tormented and tortured because of this one person. putin does not care who dies, as long as he retains his position, and thatis

colleague, and assured that the united states had nothing to do with, that is, rebellion, this, as his prigozhin, that is, the fear of the collapse of the russian federation, a constant emphasis, that they do not interfere in the internal affairs of the russian federation, these are ... things that restrain the united states, and of course, that they leave the opportunity for negotiations with russia, precisely because the call of one of the leading republican senators , lindsey graham, to introduce regarding the russian federation's status as a state sponsor of terrorism is unlikely to be implemented either by this administration or by donald trump, who will definitely try to start from scratch. relations with the russian federation, well, if of course he is elected president, that's why there are deterrents, and of course, the united states also understands that it is quite difficult to break the russian federation, well, by non-military means, given that they have already adapted to sanctions and found the opportunity to trade with the so-called global south, china is very helpful, and by the

among them, yevgeny prigozhin, leader of the wagner group, was killed in a mysterious plane crash threeonths after a failed rebellion against putin last year. in 2015, politician and putin opponent boris nemtsov was shot dead on a bridge many moscow. and in 2006, former kgb spy alexander litvinenko was poisoned after fleeing to the united kingdom. with the russian authorities saying navalny's body will not be handed over until an investigation into his death has been completed, but his team say this is just to cover traces of what they believe is a clear act of murder by vladimir putin. whit? >> lama hasan, thank you. >>> staying overseas now, vice president kamala harris standing with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy at the munich security conference, both making the case for additional u.s. military aid. harris emphasizing the importance of american support for ukraine as efforts to provide funding have stalled in congress. and the meeting comes as ukrainian forces retreat from a key city. here's abc's selena wang at the white house. >> reporter: as russia takes control of anot

that in general, even this kind of russian people, er, reacted more to what was happening around prigozhin, his rebellion, his death, his murder there, than to what is happening around navalny, that is, this is also an indicator, that is, there will either be a palace coup, or russia will lose in some, well actually in a war, and this will also push something, there are no other options, will it be understood in the world, well it is very scary, according to many understand, because it simply changes this whole concept, you know, this is a controlled escalation of some possible agreements with putin, all this is not... thank you, olga, natalia, actually before the meeting took place, or rather after the meeting took place in geneva biden and putin, the president of the united states of america, when asked by a journalist what will happen if navalny dies in prison, he said, these will be simply unprecedented consequences for russia, well, we are already seeing these unprecedented consequences. putin started a large-scale war against ukraine, we already see these sanctions that are being int

as hard as they do at kim's, and you know, you look at it on russian society, which , you know, prigozhinled there, once, they forgot, they killed navalny, they already forgot, well, something will happen to putin at some stage, they will also put him in the archive, and they will pretend that it is theirs.. . does not go around. roman, you said that the most important thing is that the russians wanted to hear from putin today, when the war ends. do you have any idea? there is no sociology there, we have no idea, in fact, what the russians want, because if they do want something, most of them are afraid to say it. perhaps someone is even very interested in the continuation of the war, there are individual regions, by the way, the poorest are demonstrating, well, not that economic growth, there is greater platypromo. whether it is there or at the expense of funeral or military payments, i do not know if we have any idea how many russians generally support the war or do not? well, you see, the economy is on the grave, it is interesting in principle. but in principle it is a dead end, becaus

largest groups of private military of the wagner company, which ultimately led to the putsch and prigozhin's trip to moscow, that is, it is very very... they are so experienced, you know, they are practitioners, not theorists, if you can put it that way, besides, i am personally familiar with colonel lebedenko, who will be responsible for the introduction of innovations, technologies, this is a very experienced colonel, an officer who was responsible for communication, communications connection is the nerve of combat operations, it is very important, which answer requires a lot of knowledge and such a subtle approach, it is necessary to understand how the enemy can act, how to be safe. from intercepting information and what trends, trends, needs are the most important at the front, because communication is the main thing, without communication, if there is no coordination at the front, these units, they are blind, so this person directly has experience, understanding, knowledge of what is needed, and i think when such people will in one of the highest positions, at the highest level, they wi

last august, evgeny prigozhin died — the mercenary who'd led an armed mutiny in russia.as, the kremlin said, an accident. in 2015, leading opposition politician boris nemtsov was killed, shot on a bridge in the shadow of red square. again, the kremlin denied any role. and it's notjust inside russia that opponents of vladimir putin have been targeted. in 2018, sergei skripal, who spied for britain, was targeted in salisbury, along with his daughter. novichok, the same nerve agent once used on navalny, nearly killed them. and in 2006, there was the death of alexander litvinenko, a former intelligence officer and a fierce critic of vladimir putin, poisoned with radioactive polonium in london. since vladimir putin gave the order for the invasion of ukraine two years ago, questions have grown about how far russia's leader is willing to go. this is what ukraine's president had to say today. translation: obviously he was killed by putin. i like thousands of others who have been tormented and tortured because of this one person. putin does not care who dies, as long as he retain

just last august, the head of the mercenary wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, who once marched his forces towards moscow, was killed when a suspected bomb blew his plane out of the sky. navalny knew he could face a similar fate and was asked what his message would be if he wound up dead. he said, "you're not allowed to give up. if they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong. we need to utilize this power to not give up." >> david: an extraordinary 24 hours. martha raddatz with us live tonight. this all comes with the russian election about a month away here? >> reporter: exactly, david. and navalny supporters are calling on russians to write in navalny's name, but putin is expected to get six more years. he has already been in power for essentially two decades. david? >> david: extraordinary. martha, thank you. >>> on this news that alexei navalny is dead, president biden before cameras today blasting house republicans for taking a two-week vacation instead of working to help ukraine fight back against putin. house republicans continue to hold up any funding for ukraine

not least because think since we spoke, because i think since we spoke, prigozhin obviously being prigozhinll. assassinated as well. >> , all these things that >> well, all these things that happen signs of putin's happen are not signs of putin's strength. i know they seem to be in sense, but there are in one sense, but there are signs he has to signs of weakness that he has to behave in this way. blowing up one of his opponents in an aircraft, killing a guy who's already in an arctic already locked up in an arctic prison. the fact he prison. now, the fact that he has go that and has to go beyond that and dispose them by murder, that dispose of them by murder, that shows ultimately his weakness. now can hang for now putin can hang on for a while. i russia doesn't while. i mean, russia doesn't have it had in have a politburo like it had in the soviet days when they got rid of khrushchev very easily. but the people around putin know that he has not been able to deliver this easy conflict that would destroy ukraine and restore them to being part of the russian federation. now, i'm not under es

reasonable than they held him for several months, it was a conscious operation of gerasimov and prigozhinf ukraine into this meat grinder and weaken the front , as a result, they have now stretched out the brigadyvich, let me finish this thought, the simple fact is that this appointment for me is this... a change, it is fundamental, because i am absolutely sure that this will work as a catalyst for so that the situation is military the situation in ukraine has taken a completely different turn when we talk about the fact that a change is beginning in kazakhstan, from some generals to others, that is, those who collaborated with nato or were trained to those who actually have a soviet school, this is an indicator of what, that the soviet military school was much stronger and the army. russia today shows much better results compared to any nato troops who are used to fighting, excuse me, students, yes, who cannot use anything significant against them. and lastly, after all, zaluzhny, unlike sirsky , has a ph.d., master of laws, and so on, yes, he has somewhat different political ambitions,

prigozhin decided maybe he could cut a deal or he didn't have the strength he thought he did.ss. the country, the people, the security services didn't rally behind vladimir putin when his renegade commando leader, militia leader was marching toward moscow. it showed a real weakness, and now vladimir putin is facing elections. nobody suspects that they're going to be real elections. there is a somewhat created opposition candidate, but even this fictitious opposition candidate is getting a bit of traction on the streets. in a sense when you look at moscow despite the lack of political freedom there, that there may be a lot of smoke and mirrors, that vladimir putin's position might seem a lot stronger than it is. >> all right, richard engel. appreciate you hopping to a camera while you're covering the war there in kyiv. we'll talk again soon. >>> let's bring in u.s. ambassador to russia, now director of the institute at the international studies at stanford, michael mcfallen. thank you for being with us. i mentioned a couple of minutes ago on this show your reaction on twitter.

are all the same, let it be brief, let it be in a few words, but they informed that navalny died, prigozhinhonored in my opinion, if i am not mistaken, no, there was also something said about the catastrophe, but just in soviet times, when he died there some opposition figure was dying, some dissident, as you understand, no television reported about it, right here... a real message on all propaganda channels, yes from this federal correctional service, but the very fact that they understood, what is it for people a significant figure, but in any case for most people, of course, the ukrainian theme may remain important, i do not know how important avdiyivka is for russians, maybe it is important for them, as well as those, i mean russians who suffer from chauvinism virus, maybe it is important for them that the russian army is advancing, i can't say that. to be honest, it's a huge question for me too, uh, as far as it can be understood, but in any case, it's absolutely obvious that the situation is related to what we are now we observe in this russian desire to show that they are advancing,

the problems, then no, further, africa, now, in fact, central africa is all on fire the war, after prigozhinhere, with his death in general , and wars began between his factions there, and in fact, starting from sudan, the central... africa, military conflicts arose everywhere, but no one even said anything about it anywhere says the situation on the arabian peninsula has already, ah, put the entire world economy on a mine for slow action. and everyone can see this from the price increase. i'm not talking about the fact that today 30% of europe depends on liquefied gas, which came through the soviet channel. are forced to deliver through the cape of good hope, this is a plus of 10-14 days, this is an increase in tariffs and so on , that is, these things have already taken a back seat, and at the same time, it is clear that topics related to assistance to ukraine, with strengthening the industrial potential of defense europe and so on, and they are not being actively pursued at all.

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the consequence for a soldier for mutiny, way that the consequence for a soldierfor mutiny, like prigozhinfy his people into submission. you mentioned ukraine and took me to a place i wanted to go, in america we've seen republicans blocking aid to ukraine, so many people worried about the consequence of that, it helps russia wins this war against ukraine — is this a reminder today what has happened, what the west is actually dealing with? i what has happened, what the west is actually dealing with?— actually dealing with? i believe this changes — actually dealing with? i believe this changes the _ actually dealing with? i believe this changes the calculus - this changes the calculus dramatically in the us house of representatives. there are a number of individuals led by mikejohnson, the speaker of the house of representatives, who are effectively trying to block aid for ukraine to benefit putin. that's not a very politically clever tactic to take after putin has openly and brazenly assassinated his most effective opposition politician. and i think that they will look a lot less steady pol

i celebrated last new year, the twenty- third, when it came, on the front line with evgeniy prigozhinme, well, take a minimum of things, there’s a power bank, a hat, what do you need, so that it’s all easy, and his colleague, my colleague, his operator, so to speak, well , a media employee, evgeniy viktorovich, arrived with a bulletproof vest, he looked at him like that , he said, why did you take this, he said, well, he took it, well, like, we’re going there to the front line. transport logistics, we are either in the urals, then in some kind of suv, then again changed seats many times, changed direction and so on, when you are standing and you see, in fact , artyomovsk is shining somewhere and they are walking there... and well, roughly speaking, there is a good sniper on the other side, a canadian, for example, who they were liquidated there, he saw us, that is, in theory he could aim normally, this, it wasn’t scary , because, well, it’s either fate, yes or no, but you love, in my opinion, this kind of drive, yes journalistic, such political turbulence for a journalist is a blessin

the twenty -third, when it came, i celebrated it on the front line with the now deceased yevgeny prigozhind, well, take a minimum of things, there’s a power bank, uh, a hat, well , what do you need, so that it’s all easy, and his colleague, my colleague, his... operator, one might say, well, a media employee, evgenia viktorovich, he arrived with a bulletproof vest, he looked at him like that and said: why did you take this? he says, well, he took it, well, like we’re going there to the front line, then there was artyomovsky bakhmud, which was not taken, it’s like that, believe me, where we will be, it won’t save you, my poor friend was carrying this body armor, it was difficult there the transport logistics are pretty good, we’re in the urals, then in some kind of suv, then again. we also changed seats many times, changed direction and so on, when you are standing and you see, in fact, there is artyomovsk shining somewhere, and there are battles there, and well, roughly speaking, a good sniper from that side, a canadian one, for example, who was eliminated there, he saw us, that is, in the

and remember what he did to prigozhin as well.is neighboring country whose very existence he denies is allowed. he cannot tolerate a successful, thriving, prosperous democracy and free market economy however flawed ukraine's democracy may be, he couldn't tolerate that on his word, and so he invaded in a brutal and unprovoked manner. again, by the way, he won't stop there and so, i hope that, you know, the scales have fallen from the eyes of anyone who still has any misconceptions about putin. this reveals this once again and of course, the timing of this is very, very suspicious, we're right at the munich security conference, it was announced the buzz, literally a gasp went up in the hall when the word spread. navalny's wife actually then took the stage after vice-president harris made a very powerful statement noting that she was undecided whether to go to her children immediately or to go on stage and she decided that he would have gone on stage and so, that's what she did as well. but again-- >> what does that tell you in and o

prigozhin who also challenged putin died. he was likely assassinated on putin's orders. hear the artillery. do your guys tell you how many close calls there have been to take you out? do you know how many assassinations attempts there have been on your life? >> after fifth it was not interesting to me. >> bret: after the fifth time? >> not really. we had at the very beginning, they made some -- >> bret: attempts? >> attempts, yes. tryings, yes. but i know a lot from what they do from our intelligence rightly from me it's not interesting now. >> bret: when you think about putin, you say you want to defeat him militarily. do you think there is ever any chance of regime change in russia based on people there? >> i think and it will be so it's not only militarily him. his positions are weak when you push on the battlefield. it doesn't mean that we have to military and all our territory from 1991 very difficult lose a lot of people much time long, long war. that's why it's more smart, of course, to decide this question diplomatically. but, as much as you can you do some [inau