joining me in moscow is pavel felgenhauer, he is a defense military analyst.recht, susi snyder is joining us, program coordinator at the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. in london, samuel ramani, who is an associate fellow at the royal united services institute. a warm welcome to all of you. pavel, if i could start with you in moscow. so vladimir putin says all this is in response to a long -standing request from the belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko. safe to say, there is more to it than that. guest: lukashenko has been, for some time, lamenting that he made a grave mistake in the 1990's when he repatriated former soviet nuclear weapons from the territory of belarus and onto russia, and turned the roots into a nonnuclear state. that if he would have retained, he said, these weapons, belarus would have been better off. and he was asking moscow to return some weapons back. russia sort of agreed. but this is more of a political bargaining thing. the military significance is -- there is, of course military , significance, but this is prima

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in moscow, apple flag and how are that apple failed and how are -- in moscow pavel , felgenhauer, a defenceilitary analyst. peter lee - author of "reaper force: inside britain's drone wars." and alexander titov, lecturer in modern european history at queens university in belfast. very warm welcome to all of you. pavel, let's start with you. the u.s. is saying that the video it released proves their version of events. what do you make of it? guest: more or less, yes, it apparently shows that one of the blades of the propeller of the american and cute nine drone was hit. it is deformed debate. that more or less shows that russian jets were flying very close, kind of skidding the drone. of course, there is a lot of difference in speed. drones fly much lower speed than jets. the jet cannot fly at the speed of the drone, it falls out of the sky. it is far, far much quicker. that means that when they encounter, it is kind of a flyby on high speed. and that's dangerous. and apparently there was a small mistake in the piloting by the russian pilot. and there was a minor collision. the american dron