and putin, i think, that was what appealed to putin about him. >> narrator: putin won yeltsin over--hare the president's democratic goals. >> he's a professional liar. to lie is what he was taught in the intelligence school. he was pretending that he was going to pursue the same development of russia as yeltsin did. but that's all is just one big lie. >> narrator: yeltsin put putin in charge of the kgb's successor, the fsb. >> he undertakes this remarkable rise, basically having nothing to do with the, the center of power in moscow to running its most important security agency, working in the kremlin. >> another major shakeup in the kremlin. yeltsin fires his entire cabinet again-- who's in charge? >> (speaking russian) >> narrator: and soon, he would become yeltsin's number two, russia's prime minister. >> ...a new prime minister, vladimir putin, a man of little political experience, but a long career... >> the biggest in the initial reaction when people heard his name being announced as acting prime minister on the ninth of august 1999 by president yeltsin, the first reaction was,

how do you see this on president putin's grip on power and do you think that putin is more or less dangerous after this incident? >> well, it certainly affects his grip on power in several ways. first, it affects his standing in russia, in his own country with the military, with the security services, with the elite around him and the perception of his own people. second, it affects the most important thing he has going on, which is the war in ukraine and the special military operation and whether he'll be able to continue to pursue that special military operation without what was the most successful element of the russian forces there, which was wagner. without wagner, whether russia will be able to continue to resist the ukrainian counter offensive and then finally, he's used wagner around the world, particularly in africa. libya, mali, central african republic, sudan. what does it do to his influence and russia's influence in other countries and all called into question boo this extraordinary mutiny over 36 hours in ukraine and russia. >> we saw some reports today that prigozhin is actual

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who and how should he explain this to putin?as already decided for himself that there is no law as such for him and what he is doing . ukrainian courts were transferred from ukraine and that is, putin does not understand ukraine with words, putin understands actions, active actions, but in fact he knows how to use words, he threatens, he blackmails, so the west must understand this in order to bring putin to his senses, would one aircraft carrier in the black sea be enough, an american aircraft carrier of course, eh ? make them yourself and it's not too late, but but for now we need to invest more in order to really have a certain leverage, the ukrainian population should be focused on creating such an air power of drones that can be used against putin, former british intelligence officer m mi-6 christopher steele says that russia has practically given up the idea of ​​defeating ukraine with its weapons on the battlefield, let's hear what mr. steele said. i think that russia has practically given up the idea of ​​defeating ukrai

how do you see this distinct affecting president putin grip on power and do you think putin is more orgerous left to the the -- after this. >> it affects it in several ways and it affects standing within russia in the russian federation. with the military, with the security services with the elite around him, and the perception of his own people. second, it affects the most important thing he has going on right now. which is his war in ukraine, and the special military operation, and whether he'll be able to continue to pursue that special military operation without what was the most successful element of the russian forces there which was wagner without wagner whether russia will be able to continue to resist ukrainian counteroffensive finally wagner around the world particularly in africa, libya central african and republics sudan what does this do to his influence and russian influence in other countries? all called in to question by the extraordinary mutiny over 36 hours in ukraine and russia. >> r saw some reports today that actually still in russia is difficult to know what to tr

how do you see putin's goal in ukraine? you mentioned wagner's role as a spearhead force in ukraine. they've already withdrawn by the time the of rising occurred. how do you see the six ordinary challenge affecting putin's goals in ukraine? given his inability to achieve a decisive military victory thus far. >> i don't think it's going to affect his goals. his goals have been since the start of the special military operation to demilitarized ukraine. what that means is, remove the government in kyiv, remove any military that could pose a threat in putin's mind to russia. his goal has remained the same. he has a long time horizon to achieve those goals. what the mutiny does is removes the tool that he's been forced to rely on to pursue his special military operation in ukraine. why has he been forced to rely on this private military contract? his security services have been otherwise so inept. so i've said, this is an example of weakness in putin, that he can't pursue this special military operation without relying on this r

he is now one of putin's fiercest critics. >> putin does not play chess.his bluff was called. >> and now, putin is moving to purge his ranks of potential coconspirators. and dismantle wagner. video and photographs released by a pro putin newspaper, appeared to show russian authorities reading prigozhin's home. aunts seizing a sledgehammer inscribed with for use an important negotiations. gold, and disguises. prigozhin's whereabouts remain unclear. while putin is trying to show the russian people, and the world, that he is firmly in charge. during covid, the russian president stayed as far away from people as he could. just four days after the mutiny, he behaves like a changed man. putin had not done anything like this in years. >> wagner's coup was a demonstration that putin's days are numbered. >> a godfather only has power if it is unquestioned. >> there are very powerful forces within putin states that are now desperately looking for other arrangements. putin was no longer the boss of bosses. >> it is unclear how far prigozhin intended to go, or what wi

who and how should explain this to putin ?r is obvious. only by his desire, the only thing that putin understands is power , and in order to create this power, it is necessary for the ships themselves to enter the black sea basin , because i think that the americans cannot do anything to make ukrainian ships pass from of ukraine and to ukraine, that is, putin understands not words, putin understands actions, active actions, but in fact he knows how to use words , he threatens, he blackmails, so the west must understand this in order to bring putin to his senses, would one aircraft carrier in the black sea be enough, an american aircraft carrier of course e- e. we need a lot of equipment, much more drones, and they are all necessary to bring putin to his senses, and i think that in this regard, the government of ukraine should think much more about this in order to create such an army of drones, manufacture them themselves, and this is not everything is too late, but for now, we need to invest more in order to really have a cer

putin is gone. bye-bye. number two, release navalny from jail, because he is the one capable to speak to the west and appeal to different facts of life. that is one of the reasons why they have not killed him. the rest will follow. it is not going to be easy, but there should be a huge change to russia. mr. herbst: thank you very much. very, very interesting. brian, i want to get to audience questions. biden was quick to inform moscow that washington had nothing to do with the mutiny. even the senior russian officials tried to cast blame on the u.s. some in moscow commented of the clay that this was driven by biden's fear of nuclear weapons. was biden smart to send this message? mr. whitmore: thanks for that question. i think it is funny that the public comments by russians, that the reason the biden administration acted this way is the fear of nuclear escalation. they like to say the word nuclear is much as possible, because they know it makes people in washington, brussels, and other western capitals get n

one is that putin successfully stopped an insurrection and just how fragile the putin regime is. what do you make of that? which one is it? and the more just how fragile the putin regime is. what do you time will pass after the actual events, the more legends just how fragile the putin regime is. what do you and myths, butut also conspiracies we're going to hear. so i think it's important to sort and to actually spell out what we've seen. we've seen that it is possible in the core territories of the russian federation to seize a military headquarter responsible for the war effort in ukraine it's possible to march towards moscow and it's possible to not bear any visible consequences for it after having killed russian military servicemen. so to be honest, i don't see how you can frame this. we can see the attempt of the kremlin and of vladimir putin to very actively how you can frame this. we can see the attempt frame it as a national test, an actual challenge that russians have overcome all together. and the absurd thing is that we haven't seen, not even a lot, we haven't seen any

putin's inner circle.soon, putin would make prigozhin his personal caterer, earning him the nickname, putin's chef. >> the best indicator that putin trust input, the fact that he served food for him. knowing his paranoia, he could've let anybody be in charge of his diet, -- >> and i think what he achieved in all of those years that is greatly, i think, undercounted, or not really understood very well, he was always discreet. he was a very trusted agents. somebody that could be relied upon to do well, to deliver, be discreet. >> putin quickly climbed through the ranks until he became president of russia. he was now an insider, trusted by putin. he wanted his own seat at the table. putin gave prigozhin a contract. it was an opportunity to help the boss, and make money for himself. it was in the most unlikely of places. were torn syria. >> >> ♪♪ when you have chronic kidney disease... there are places you'd like to be. like here. and here. not so much here. if you have chronic kidney disease, farxiga can help

from the pipe are putin's bodyguards, and they demonstrated to putin in general his weakness.e crimea, then her ego in terms of position was close to the wings of the leader of the people, and those brought in also do not need prigozhyn, they are not needed as an instrument, they are the future ruler of russia, therefore they use prigozhyn as much as possible to frame putin для его делать глазах глазах или ты в глазах Российского обочное глаза за папада and now the next step is to come to the quest without any fights in moscow in an absolutely legal way, and i thank you andriy andriyovich for this extremely important analysis on the air of the espresso tv channel in our tv viewers, i want to remind you that for them political scientist andriy piontkovskyi was working from washington for a while . day, take care of yourself and your loved ones. see you on the air. i am oleksandr sklyar, born and raised in kharkiv, in a city that suffers from russian weapons every day. i know that poltava has become a home for tens of thousands of displaced people, and for me a second hometown w

it's gone too far and it won't work out that way with putin , and putin would do something similar. to speak? well, we understand that the key story is about putin. i don’t even have power, but this is also implemented in power. yes, i think there is no, because he sees everything that he has given a lot . is responsible for the resolution of the war and for the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people , i don't think that he can trust at least someone in russia to share power with him . he is not ready to release real levers from his hands. it seems to me that this option no longer realizes the greatest course of events mark . it is not surprising that we learned from that very strange informational throw-in by lukashenko, well, lukashenko immediately put on himself the hat of a great negotiator and so on i don't know, true, false, well, there is no way to check. well, you remember this pathos, and here i called and you ask me, and putin couldn't get through to the beauty, well, it's just delusional. no, of course , i think that's not all that, that's all. of course, i see more

is it because putin doesn't deem him a threat or because putin is too weak... ..to try and move against him? no, no. putin is... he's weaker, but he's not that weak. right. he's still...he's still the only person running russia. but prigozhin, obviously, did not challenge putin himself. he did not want to topple the president. he wanted to become number one... number two, i'm sorry. he challenged shoigu, generals, army, but he was... ..he still was loyal to president putin. so there is no reason for putin to destroy him. well, you say there's no reason for putin to destroy him, so then how would you explain the fact that the russian state media has been trying to discredit yevgeny prigozhin? i'm hearing mixed messages from you. i mean, they showed images during a raid by the security services of his villa, with all the expensive interiors, the gold bars, the guns, the drugs, the money. yeah, that's... ok. why are they doing that? he has challenged the system, not president putin. so he... ..he won't be murdered. and he... and president putin himself knows the l

i hope for a healthy way of putin . it seems to me that no one can say that this war does not have any real prospects for him. he will be able to realize that he needs to start negotiations about the end of this story about the fact that he will go to exhaustion to the end but if it will also be his own exhaustion, to what extent is he ready to endure his own exhaustion ? this is a question. now we have seen this whole story with you, so once in one day he declared them traitors, then lukashenka negotiated with them, then he personally met with them, it all looks strange, the truth is like the image of putin, whom we know, well, with this war, it can be like that, that is, he is trying to maneuver to avoid any serious losses. of course, he is determined for a long war, but the determination for a long war and the ability to wage a long war are completely different things, just as we understand that he does not have sufficient military potential for an intensive long well, in any case, if we agree with you that russia ha

[000:00:00;00] even though you will, but putin is a great video. with what pride, as a hero, well, the resident was escorted out as best as possible. excuse me, and him , too. it was already on the evening of the 24th, after several speeches by putin, after the decision of the prosecutor's office, and the announcement of criminals, and so on, here it is dve russia residents of ostap welcoming hallways and residents of rublyovka for business rye leaving moscow first let's leave moscow putin fleeing from rumors you know who he took with him of course prime minister mishustin yes just in case well i can't even imagine how it is it looked like maybe he was under the barrels, i don’t know sechkin, he just sat down closer to putin’s body and why isn’t this a dangerous person ? ugh, he can sign decrees . arranged on saturday to be tired, jokingly, there were no first words between, he said somewhere already on monday and on tuesday, and there were amazing things, well, first of all, of course, it’s about behavior and in whores and alekseev, they would sit

spas putin, in my opinion, is a myth.s specially invented in order to betray the main thing, not from medvedev , yes, come and go, and i will be the judge. well, he was also the minister of defense dyumin, remember that is him he's ready once he's ready once he's already fed he rushed in i think they decided that for now he doesn't need to do this anymore because god knows why it's smeared - it's better to leave all the shit at the shul and say that it 's already been sitting there for how many 10 years more a decent term there. in any case, what is the situation , the topic of transit is probably discussed in these circles, it is natural to say that the proposal was chosen by the military , he can now resume this topic of transits, the main one is against this topic of fate. why is it putin himself, in what ways? what are the possible paths for transit? it can be simply putin's replacement in his position as the first person, the main person , so to speak, there will be lukashenko's option. in these two subjects of belar

well, we understand the key story about putin is that putin most wants to preserve his life , not evenu look at too many allotments, he cannot believe that the limitation or the limitation itself , the owner of which can go with the account, he just believes in the general litization of power, because he is such a non-approacher, he is so responsible for solving it wars and sacrifices and the same hundred thousand people, i don't think that he can entrust it to at least someone in russia to share power with him and imagine that he is leaving for an honorary position means that he only portrays power, it seems to me that there are no real levers, he is not ready let it out of my hands it seems to me that this option no longer realizes the greatest course of events mark how strange it is that we learned from that very strange information throw-in by lukashenko , well, lukashenko immediately put on himself the hat of a great negotiator and so on, i don't know whether it's true or not there is no way to check. well, you remember this pathos, and here i called you. they asked me, and putin

eric: putin denied any involvement. navalny emerged from his coma determined to find the assassins and expose them on his popular youtube channel. eric: working with the investigations group bellingcat, his team soon pointed the finger at the russian security service, the fsb. eric: they identified the fsb agents who'd been shadowing navalny in siberia. navalny set out to trick them into confessing. eric: sitting alongside maria pevchikh, he called fsb team members, posing as a senior official debriefing the operation. eric: to everyone's amazement, one of the agents fell for it, discussing how they had applied the poison and removed the evidence. maria: he's the guy who's doing cleanup, so he was going to the place where alexei went afterwards and just clean up. eric: the agent even revealed where the poison had been placed. maria: to be honest, that was the most unbelievable day in my career. maria: it's sad, and funny, and good at the same time. sad in terms of what level of, you know, security services we really hav

so, dear madam, how long can putin try to continue the war , since putin will lose this war, he is readyo fight it until someone will stop from a strategic point of view , he definitely suffered the biggest defeat in the history of russia since the collapse of the soviet union. putin's kleptocratic regime and this is putin's biggest fear , a successful, democratic, prosperous ukraine, which will eventually become a member of nato, he cannot stop this process, so he will continue to fight as long as possible, hoping that ukraine will get tired that all of us, the united states and our allies in the west, will get tired and stop providing support to ukraine, but this will never happen. the russian economy is rapidly deteriorating. revenues from the sale of hydrocarbons in the first quarter of this year were 47% lower than last year. the budget deficit is growing. the ruble fell sharply in prices, and there is also an attempt at a coup d'état. putin , to put it mildly, is scared, he is doing something he has never done before, for example, they are trying to show the russian people that he

so, dear madam, how long can putin try to continue the war , since putin is losing this war, he is readyo fight it until someone stops him, from a strategic point of view, he definitely suffered the biggest defeat in the history of russia since the collapse of the soviet union. it won twice as long with nato as before the war. ukraine is now more determined than ever to join nato and to be a successful post-soviet neighboring state that is an alternative to putin's criminal kleptocratic regime and this is the biggest fear of putin a successful democratic prosperous ukraine which will eventually become a member of nato he cannot stop this process so he will continue to fight as long as possible hoping that ukraine will tire that all of us the united states and our allies in the west will get tired and stop providing support to ukraine, but this will never happen. the russian economy is rapidly deteriorating, revenues from the sale of hydrocarbons in the first quarter of this year were 47% lower than last year, the budget deficit is growing, the ruble has fallen sharply in price, and there

we can destroy putin 's regime . not only in the direction of the trial of putin and his henchmen , butlso, possibly, the achievement of nuclear disarmament or at least at least a technological gap, this is one of the elements of the guarantees that we need technological detachment from the aggressor country, if we do it with the help of western partners and our own efforts, then we will realistically be able to arrange the next stage of the war, which is no longer hot, because the liberation of the territory is a transition to the next stage of the war, the next stage of the war is when all the territories of ukraine are are under the control of ukraine , but we are moving on to restraining the aggressor , adhering to russia, where there will definitely be revenge sentiments, where they will want the destruction of ukraine, and for us, one of the important factors is to reach that situation when they will independently refuse to bomb ukrainian territories with missiles or drones why because in return they will receive a very powerful very powerful missile and drone response from ukrain

although erdogan, as a real politician, is trying to find a compromise with putin and the pirate putin, he promises that during the next meeting of erdogan and putin in turkey, they will talk, including about the restoration of the grain agreement . but the world simply understands that putin has a nuclear button and he understands and the world understands that putin can use nuclear weapons and of course this limits the actions of turkey as well, because the turkish navy is part of nato and turkey is part of the north atlantic alliance, so it is clear that cardigan is still trying to settle the issue of the grain agreement. i will remind you that the grain agreement will consist of two parts. general the secretary of the un between russia and turkey, that is, there are two parts of the agreement and there are different signatories, russia says that they do not recognize this grain agreement, they do not guarantee anyone security in the black sea, and this is the usual blackmail. zelensky appealed to the un and to partners in the world with a request to take another look at how russia

it certainly is so just going back to putin the man and putin, the myth, i mean, he you know, we know these stories about putin who, you know, talks about the rat that is in a corner and that rat is the most dangerous. and so now all of us here in washington are like, oh, my, you know, is putin the rat? and is most dangerous now because he's kind of cornered. can you talk a little bit about these myths that have been established. you know, i recall that when i was working for the government you know, we would have to remind ourselves that just just remember, the russians aren't ten feet tall, that all of myths out there, you know, putin riding, you know, with a bear chest on a big old horse, you know, somebody so, so powerful and so and yet somehow, even as we kind of made fun of that, we were buying that myth. now. so the rat story is a good one. and my friend bob here somewhere, he's always point out to me that the rat story's ambiguous because the you know, our telling of the rat story, he's, you know, he's running around the apartment building where he grew up and he's chasing rat

putin cannot allow that. >> you mentioned your belief that putin will have to bring prigozhin to heelo you mean a additional process or some sort of extrajudicial? what do you expect? sullivan: it can be any number of things. vladimir putin, seems to me recently, in public statements that he and the russian government have made about the extraordinary amount of money that prigozhin's corporate entities have bayed from the rough -- russian government and hence of corruption. or is a prospect for future legal incidents against prigozhin, even if president putin sticks to his word and does not prosecute prigozhin for the mutiny. but the russians are also well trained in taking extrajudicial action. whether it is within russia as they did with alexi, or elsewhere, particularly in europe in berlin or london. it could be any one of those potential reactions by putin. people have been joking recently, in dark humor, that prigozhin stay away from windows and tall buildings. strange things happen when people become enemies of vladimir putin. >> and maybe watch what he drinks. i would like to c

avoids clarity they all had their relations with putin, of course, putin lied to them and said oh no, i am not going to invade and lavrov said that he is not going to invade and of course they did not want to believe because they did not want to face the prospect the war is on its doorstep from this house and less cut was the intelligence analysis always decided by the political power often these decisions go against what recommendations and data provided by the intelligence service it is very often possible that the second case when in the end the decision becomes a political one, it contradicts the data , it is always the responsibility of the political authorities. in the place of ukraine, what would you believe in the most incredible scenario , like tanks going to kyiv, teacher, would you believe the countries that seem to have the most valuable communication with russia and say no, no, we do not believe in such a scenario, in the end, macron schulz decides to visit putin personally, but in order to get closer than 5 meters to him, the kremlin requires both of them to take covid

if you discuss this with putin, you are an adviser to putin, you can to express the opinion that this is, in principle, well, it can take place for 10 years, yes, and it will not lead to anything. no result, who wants the path, then in this situation, it is more profitable to agree on reconciliation and on the partial removal of some sanctions in order to use my own resources to build up a lot of opportunities for me for the next strike, someday for the next strike, when it is not necessary that in ukraine, by the way, i still have many places where you can apply ukraine is his dream, it is obvious that without ukraine you cannot form a full-fledged the soviet union , but this does not mean that it can be formed without other territories, so you can simply change the priority of the strike task and decide for yourself that if we capture everything, then it will be easier for us to capture ukraine, we do not start with ukraine, and we finish ukraine well, you can have different political nato , well, there is a possibility of integration of belarus, the countries of the caucasus, centr

from the pipe of putin's guards and they demonstrated putin's weaknesses in general.can persuade him to resign. in addition, if the beauty had stolen herself into the crimea, he would have been a colossal leader in terms of his position. the people's leader and prigozhin are also not needed. prigozhin is needed as an instrument, they are like the future ruler of russia , so they used prigozhin as much as possible to frame putin for his ego in the eyes or you in the eyes of the russian public eye of the west. and now the next step is to come to power without any fights in moscow absolutely i would like to remind our tv viewers that the political scientist andriy was working for them from washington in a legal way piontkovsky thank you thank you anton we will continue to watch our program time has run out stay tuned to espresso tv channel my colleagues will inform you about all the most important events of the day take care of yourself and your loved ones see you on the air hello my name is volodymyr chesnokov i am the captain of the vorskla poltava football club for ma

volodymyrets, are familiar with the current statement of vladimir putin, so what does putin want and why did he tell this to his african friends, you see mr. serhiy, we are trying to sit down as they say to his chair and understand what is happening in the world, he is an outcast , that is, no one wants to discuss anything with him , but even contact him, that is, call him, come to conduct some negotiations, and so on . milka is black on him. he received suspicion well, in fact, the highest criminal court in the world and he is the person they want to arrest. as soon as he gets somewhere in the territory of the country that signed the rome institute, he should be arrested right away, so who should he deal with? lupyshenko stays in china, stays in north korea. well, there. maybe somewhere else from that western direction. cuba, venezuela , nicaragua. well, actually, the whole set, so what should he do? well, at least, at least in some way, sell to his to the population, well the opinion that the day well, after all, look, i'm a powerful leader, everyone came to visit me, and that's ju

putin does the same thing. it was more of kind of insidious nationalism with some -- with a lot of militants but most is outside of russia so in this sense the choice, of course, would be for futin. and i was walking around moscow on saturday during the mutiny and people were saying quite openly, whatever we think of putin, i still want my boy to go to school. he doent want him to be a child soldier. so in this sense putin has consolidated his power, well putin has not lost his grip on power. at least not in -- in the near run. we know from russian history things could change at any moment and david was a great witness to this. he left the soviet union and then had to come back to witness 1991. >> david, it is a very different scenario. but describe to us what you think were the key -- what was key thing that happened to make that soviet eddiveas. >> we had all reasons that were economic and political, technological, lagging behind and there was a leader of the communist party, that institution, which ruled the

crazy orders, this is a broken putin, a month ago and today, putin is different things, that putin ,the sets are to be solved with uh, cassette warheads . this is very much not even a step. i’m sorry. if you look at it, happiness overflows if there is resistance even in the congress . well, it’s also the result of the new situation in moscow . this is the last one. burns, the head of the cheeses, who concluded some kind of offensive deal with moscow, let's not talk about it, i wrote the newspaper mister of the month . well, he will support the connection all the time . and we have nothing to do with anyone. but how did reshki load up on us now that we are going to repeat in sebevali ? this he knows about it much more than we do because the american interrupts the conversation dunk bunker i am not about this situation with spartak there uh with the privozhnym they know everything better than us and for this the next step is to solve not the steps of the americans and in the cassette and everything is the same. how will you accept the resolution? it will not be in ukraine in the next f

putin mentions that warsaw should thank stalin lukashenko says that the belarusians are ready to come to the aid of the ukrainians of western ukraine and help defend the right to independence well , let's listen to what else lukashenko and putin said precisely thanks to the soviet union, thanks to stalin's position, poland received a significant amount of land in the west of germany, this is exactly how the western territories of present-day poland are stalin's gift to the poles, our friends, we forgot about it. let me remind you that they probably expect to form some kind of coalition under the nato umbrella and in the first place intervene in the conflict in ukraine, tear off a piece of the marriage as for the policy of the ukrainian regime, this is his business. they want it. how is it introduced to the traitors? give something, sell something. they will unite with the owners. i repeat, in the end, it is their business. we will not interfere. as for belarus, in this part of the union state, unleashing aggression against belarus will mean aggression against the russian federation. w

putin is putting it mildly.frightened, he is doing something that he has never done before, for example, he is trying to show the russian people that he loves him. that is why he is going to dirbent hugs people there and this is when even his closest advisers have to be quarantined for two weeks before meeting him because he is so paranoid about getting sick putin scared and will continue to fight as long as he can but he doesn't have long left largely due to amazing bravery and victory to the ukrainian soldiers and the help of friends and future nato allies. we should not flinch from his next mention of nuclear weapons. he likes to say that if he is cornered, then he will surrender he was cornered during prigozhin's uprising and what did he do? he got scared and let prigozhin go, and he probably showed mercy to his soldiers, that is, when he was cornered, he simply surrendered, so putin's red lines are worthless, dear ambassadors, i would like to ask you about the best guarantee scenario security for ukraine we

that is, putin had a separate track in relation to belarus, this provocation. nuclear weapons , so i think that lukashenko. it's difficult, and on the other hand, here it can become a certain ally in contrast to moscow, this is beijing, with which the lukashenka family has an unofficial joint business and production on the territory of belarus, and it's precisely from the chinese here they can influence as a certain balance in these efforts today by putin through belarus to attack the nato countries and, accordingly, the eastern flank of the countries of the european union . in fact, it's just a horror, and maniacality, or maniacality, is 100%. and of course there is horror - this is 100%. p ihor please tell me this is such a strange visit by the minister of defense , although not the minister of war of the russian federation sergei shaygu to north korea where he where the minister of defense met with the leader of the most closed country in the world obviously not obvious i think that they went to negotiate he went to negotiate for the supply of weapons, in pa

in putin's personal guard, they tell the story that in altai, how was the teddy bear spas putin, in my. specially invented in order to betray the main thing from medvedev. let's go. we are in court. well, he was also the minister of defense . dyumin, remember , that is, he was already prepared once. it is not necessary, because god knows what is left behind - it is better to leave all the crap to the shulga, and so to speak, which has been sitting there for 10 years or more , a decent period of time. вредлог был избраны это войнымы теши , he can and time will renew the topic of transits , the main one against this topic is fate. option with lukashenko, the creation of a union state, what many are also talking about, the introduced position of the president of the union state and putin's transition there, preserving some level of full power in these two subjects of belarus and russia, and this too some kind of a kind of transit yes, that is, it changes the architecture of power in russia for sure, and for example, if putin becomes the head of the presidency and not shustin, the head of

the whole the world understands that putin will go to the very end putin sees no other way out now thansimply go on the battering ram and blackmail with nuclear weapons. there are also some coups inside the state with other tricks of his own . what does putin want in this situation? well, he crossed this line . i said he took a one-way ticket, but this same end for it can come much faster than we think, this type of people uh, that is, it is clear that he is trying to incite to raise the rates, but these people are life and at one moment they can simply break down sharply, this is the type of character, we have seen such people. well in principle, there is nothing surprising about it if you contrast it with pressure

i know, yes, a common history for russia therefore, firstly, putin will continue to play putin wantsthe extension of the grain agreement, i deliberately do not say the agreement, as far as i am concerned, it is no deal. putin will try to extract at least a part of what he wants and give it as a certain gift when putin will bargain hard serdians, if he comes in august, i think that in fact putin will try to come to turkey or the day before, x. right political moral military any act without russia will of course continue to strike our parties intercept ships in what way will all this of course affect the increase in insurance rates uh will make uh this whole project much more risky we talked about countries uh no of the event today and we have to deploy it very consistently and it is very clear to those companies what russia is doing and what we are doing and what is actually what is the real placeholder in this process. i believe that russia's refusal weakens their position weakens the position at least in to the western world, we have to fully develop it, but the logic of what putin

yes, yes, yes, putin won more simply for money, according to dev, the kovalchuks inspired putin withlity of victory in the world war over the west, revenge for the defeat of the soviet union in the cold war, he was going, but he realized that this war was lost already in the first week when ukraine lags behind kiev has thrown away everything and we are the god no one thinks anymore and nobody thinks about kiev remember the main thing putin writes we are never in such a kiev we don't gather we don't gather with money you understand you can't kovalchuk yes he had world plans in this world but he understood it faster that it was lost, and he now poses a much more important task to all of these kovalchuks, big and small , not world domination, not the generation of the preservation of the properties of public property , the defeated country, and putin, of course , for the decision to set an obstacle for them , because he wants to continue the already senseless war forgettable draw, which is only needed as a way to get on the other side, we are not, she is not needed , well, look, let’s s

putin. john teft, the only american — for putin. john teft, the only american diplomat _ for putin. johnn diplomat to have been an ambassador to both russia and ukraine — fascinating insights. thanks for being with us. ., insights. thanks for being with us, ., ", ., insights. thanks for being with us. . ., ., now, at the summit, african leaders have called for an end to the war in ukraine, keen to see the conflict conclude to shore up their supply to grain. some put forward proposals for peace, but the kremlin says they would be "very difficult to implement". this is what the battlefield looks like now, as kyiv pushes like now, as kyiv pushes to retake land. in a video published by president zelensky, ukrainian troops say they�*ve taken a village to the east of zaporizhzhia city. president vladimir putin also acknowledges that attacks have "significantly" intensified. earlier, i asked lieutenant colonel alexander vindman what else putin could commit to the war. he really has nothing new in terms of capabilities. but what he can rely on is kind of the brutality that he�*s experienced thus