look, sloboda is a friend of putin. i think he was a friend of putin.osteti he was a fool in his friend a friend yosyp proteti they are always friends, they feel good about themselves, but they pretend of course they are friends with russia or some other country they know how to pretend to be friends but yes serbian politics is built on the fact that you should be friends only with yourself and feel great pleasure from communicating with yourself from your political friends. so we literally have a minute left at the end. did not congratulate the president well, the people, these scoundrels all the time prove that the ukrainian people simply see things and dream that they will have such a government as putin and lukashenko , and therefore we must congratulate him so that in the end the rest praised the decision. i think that when the president of a state does not address the president of another state with greetings, but addresses the people, it is of course diplomatically an insult to the people themselves, because the president of ukraine, volodymyr ze

that the powerful leader of russia that putin likes to project, putin was very determined and has been very determined to show himself in control. if you notice how putin has been behaving over the last several months, he's been more active than ever. he's going out on to the streets. he's meeting crowds. he's glad handing people on the streets. choreographed, of course. he's greeting school children, giving away presents to school children and bouquets of flowers, the kind of campaigning that politicians often do but that vladimir putin hadn't done in years. he had been isolated in covid, increasingly become estranged, only meeting a small handful of people, after putting them in quarantine. some suggested it was because of his covid isolation that he lost track of the inner circle, that he didn't realize how powerful prigozhin had become, and how angry prigozhin was about the lack of progress in the war in ukraine. and how he and his men were being treated that putin took his eye off the ball, and now it seems is going out of his way to reassert his authority. if you have to reassert

putin refused this lentil.hen a new act of this political drama began when erdogan assured that he will have contact with putin so that putin will come to turkey, that they will agree on everything, although the kremlin said from the very beginning that there is no confirmation of such a visit, but he is not , putin is not going, they do not say that he will not go, but he is not in the schedule, everyone is too the minister of foreign affairs of the republic of turkey, a confidant who was just the other day in the ukrainian capital , talked to our head of the genetics department dmytro, a colleague, and later went to moscow, talked to sergey lavrov, putin did not spoke with the task spoke with sergey lavrov sergey lavrov clearly said if you are interested in the zernova initiative it should be without ukraine at all there were no results from this conversation murdogan managed to talk with putin the information about this conversation indicated that they did not agree on anything, not even a meeting and now th

putin face to face.aces where erdogan and putin can talk face to face, except for the territory of russia, turkey, not so much because, well, in the big 20s, maybe putin will fly there, although i doubt it. what do you think about this isolation from the isolation of putin, which he got into in connection with the warrant of the international criminal court, it turns putin into someone no, he understands that he is a certain political party, and i will simply say that if it were some leader, like the former president of sudan, then the fate of this president was the main thing that can be decided, but because of this, the largest country in the world with nuclear weapons is the only thing that saves putin from being, well, let's say he was convicted by an international court for such crimes that he committed in ukraine and not only in ukraine. and with regard to turkey. well, here it is. here, a very interesting game is taking place. first of all, all those conversations about putin's visit to turkey are

owen, your thoughts on where it leaves led mere putin, the public perception of vladimir putin in russiaen: given that russia is a dictatorship, and in a way a democracy, although it retains some of the phantom structures of democracy, it is rather hard to tell, as my fellow panelists have said. there is a fundamental problem with polling in a totalitarian system. we don't really know the exact extent of that public support. what we do know is three rather important things. hitherto in the major moments of revolution in russia when we have seen state collapse, three things are the case. one, there is a profound economic crisis. two, the regime has discredited itself and shown itself to be weak. and three, there is an alternative leader waiting in the wings. none of those things pertain in today's russia. there is no alternative. the state, despite battlefield setbacks, has actually done a remarkably good job of fighting off the effects of sanctions, cushioning its population from any kind of economic crisis, or making the crisis comparable to 1917 or 1981. there is no real sign that puti

putin or putin has gone crazy that putin has not gone crazy, i can say 100% that there are some imperialnot observe this, but i myself think that the heads of large states always burst their chests. i really the way a person can think. uh, this also applies to well, in the united states of america, what's wrong there is no way to measure what they want and what they do russia is a huge empire what can i say, of course, this leaves its mark on a person's character. uh, chatter, full of fake fiction, what's coming out of putin, especially now. especially because i'm going through it. yes, yes, well, share, then share. those were not close friends . all the same, he calls one state. i'm something else there. well, inaccessible to me and him remains somewhere in the pocket in the bosom, and so on, therefore, e alien soul is dark, as they say with us and with you, i cannot say there in detail. uh, but what he's going through. uh, in connection with these events, the situation is not simple, as an absolutely adequate experienced person , who really, analyzing , tries to look ahead, calculates

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

will putin get rid of them?to dream, to remove, to lead him into disgrace. because there is a mass of all kinds of elements against them. i think that as long as they remain in their capacity in the army , there is fermentation and it will cause murder alarmingly . - the insurgent does not have such a call to end the war, which everyone was already tired of in 17 months, but 18 months and its wars and where they end, there is no end, etc. well, there is no such face and beauties, but not that, well, he did not pull on the role, not such a full sense, but he is not the general is no longer a military man, he should be a car

and what will putin think about them?ns, since they will be preparing for presidential elections there, and we are not even talking about free, honest or something like that, we are talking about the fact that these will be putin's elections, and all this, the whole performance will be based on this question, show your feelings, as they say, loyal subjects will be very important for the russian elite, otherwise what will happen to you, where and how will it happen to you, will they not forget your merits, here is putin talking about prigozhyn’s merits well, the big question in general is, first of all, that now with an asset worth in africa , they will give it to russia, putin says about this and for i, for example, have a very interesting question . and what about the beauties and his so-to-speak heritage in the sense of compromising beauty ? will this kompromat become public now, i think that the russians did not worry about it, but for me, a very interesting question is whether this compliment will not fall into someon

putin will do something, he won't do it, and i always told them that putin must be ready to raise the stakes. he is deliberately preparing for this , just as he said after the georgian war . just as i told them after the 14th year, i believe putin also has the meaning of the mission in his head he does not see his mission as a monument to putin on putin boulevard, where some future russian pioneers or whatever they will be called read putin's agreement, he really sees himself as the savior of some mythical separate russian civilization and today's russia, so when will he feel that this civilization is conditional cannot be saved in quotes. i believe that he will agree to almost everything and i would be careful about statements that putin will never use anything. i also believe that the probability of this is quite small, but it is not is zero, just like non-western countries. by the way, china and india are telling putin that even the rhetoric about nuclear weapons is inappropriate. but putin didn't care about that, he once said everything to the chinese leaders and then in 4 days he

putin, and i believe that he remained a visitor as his friend and as a person whom putin treated withe, and they did a lot of things there in in the past, and i believe that the meeting that took place in june was not directed against putin, he was directed against what he and now i believe that what happened is the revenge of the generals, we know that today a new head of the communist party of russia was appointed and in well, in my opinion, this is not accidental. it happened right now, right today, er, as if it were putin , what would be the order to destroy prigozhyn well , they would do er, something typical for the fsb , there would probably be a bomb in this plane, or could there just be two lips began to work , was there poison, well, something, something like that, and here it was the attack was carried out by means of anti-aircraft defense, two s300 missiles, how did they shoot down this plane, and the fsb’s anti-aircraft missile system is a military one, and i believe that the way i just did it will not become putin’s in the name of this and this, we can even say that this

prigozhin and putin. ., �*, ., ,, ., , ., putin. best to keep in _ putin. that's obstinately right, and it's best to keep in mind _ putin. that's obstinately right, and it's best to keep in mind that i putin. that's obstinately right, and it's best to keep in mind that there are different versions discussed of whether it was a defence system or a bomb on board that caused this crash. but it shows the direction of mind, and... the replacement of the a—star general who was somehow connected to yevgeny prigozhin, and also replaced for the post of the commander of the military air force. providing protection from ukrainians on one side, and also the reaction from prigozhin on the other side. i think that we will never know for sure whether prigozhin himself was on board or whether it's been staged by security forces in order to get prigozhin to disappear from the power stage. it’s prigozhin to disappear from the power stage-— power stage. it's such a murky icture power stage. it's such a murky picture there. _ power stage. it's such a m

yes, vladimir putin after— you at will. yes, vladimir putin after the _ you at will.in after the plane - you at will. yes, vladimir - putin after the plane crashed described yevgeny prigozhin as talented and made serious mistakes in life. explain how their relationship evolves over time. , ., ., , their relationship evolves over time. , ., , time. they go way back. yevgeny pri . ozhin time. they go way back. yevgeny prigozhin spent _ time. they go way back. yevgeny prigozhin spent most _ time. they go way back. yevgeny prigozhin spent most of - time. they go way back. yevgeny prigozhin spent most of the - time. they go way back. yevgeny prigozhin spent most of the 80s. prigozhin spent most of the 80s in prison and in the early 19905 in prison and in the early 1990s apparently he met putin in st petersburg when putin was working in the mirror�*s office there, maybe even selling preaching wasn't hot dogs, that was his firstjob as he got out of prison. one way or another, prigozhin ended up being putin's caterer and make billions out of contract. prigozhin became his app

well, if putin, putin did not come to gorbachev, because who is gorbachev?iet union will not come to prigozhin, so it actually is. the families of all these enemies of the people were shot completely absolutely yes and for this just, everyone understood for sure when they were arrested that their women , you know, the women who were the first ladies of the kingdom , their children are raped, they will be sent to an orphanage. the soviet elite, the russian elite, i don't want to exist, that means they have to obey and that's all, there is absolutely no point in losing the feeder and where where can you run now , first of all, this avianov or whatever his surname is from the main office will find you and simply destroy you with a new eye, it has already happened many mysterious deaths of people who tried to escape from putin, secondly, no one in the west is waiting for these people now, they are war criminals and it is very difficult to escape if you were a member of the security council of the russian federation, thirdly, i think that they value their social

when will they show us putin or putin's double or some person similar to putin?t this time, very large tectonic influences will take place behind the scenes and the ukrainian war is what russia is doing inside ukraine. i think that will be one of the factors because, hmm, there will be a watershed between how to get out of this situation now and who will win in this in the immediate environment or in the so-called image of this collective putin, will the hawks win who will demand an even greater settlement of aggression against ukraine, or will those who believe that now is the time to put the brakes on it, and it seems to me that for ukraine this is the most important thing now, will win to follow how some changes will take place within the russian summers within the russian government. by the way, i do not rule out that in the month of september we may see, for example , a new prime minister of russia, this is indicated the economic situation, inflation and what is happening with russian problems have some points, that is, i think that this is a drift in the di

so i would ascribe it to putin. i mean, nobody is going to mourn for the passing of yevgeny prigozhin. he was a war criminal. he was a terrible person. but i am concerned about what this means. what it suggests is that putin is very much in firm control of the russian state. there is some hope a couple months ago this wagner mutiny might set off refer bases that would bring down putin's power, that might lead to a change of regime. clearly, that's not happen. putin appears to be in control as ever and he can continue fighting the war in ukraine in the near term, which is very bad news because, of course, it's this horrible, evil, costly war of aggression. >> susan, i will give you the last word. we saw the flowers outside of, you know, outside for prigozhin and those who were killed. what does that signal to you about the sentiments inside of russia? >> well, look, i mean, you know, pick your metaphor, abby. the cat inside the bag. power politics at the highest levels are very opaque in putin's russia because there

t putin and where we go from here? i think putin has severely weakened.rontal invasion of ukraine in february 2022. and then another marker— in february 2022. and then another marker was— in february 2022. and then another marker was when prigozhin marched on moscow— marker was when prigozhin marched on moscow unimpeded. and of course now that the _ moscow unimpeded. and of course now that the killing of prigozhin at the hands _ that the killing of prigozhin at the hands of— that the killing of prigozhin at the hands of putin does not necessarily make _ hands of putin does not necessarily make it _ hands of putin does not necessarily make it very strong, he had to do this to _ make it very strong, he had to do this to try— make it very strong, he had to do this to try to _ make it very strong, he had to do this to try to relearn the elites and demonstrate some sort of strength— and demonstrate some sort of strength but it also happened at a time when he could not leave the country _ time when he could not leave the country because he is under an arrest —

of putin and putin tried his loyalty above competency.ssian politicians. he was a known person for putin, so i suspect he's there, he's there for the duration. last almost invisible chief of staff, again he poses no threat to putin. he was a figurehead, he does what putin has told, he doesn't prevent any kind of political threat. you also have to remember that there is some very important local elections coming up in russia on the 10th of september, in which, although the rulings of united russia party is going to come out victorious almost everywhere, there are some regions where communist party candidates, other fringe where communist party candidates, otherfringe radical where communist party candidates, other fringe radical candidates are, are making themselves heard and known and could put up a good fight. so putin does not want to many charismatic figures anywhere to muddy the waters. particularly with the present and residential elections coming up next year. samantha, vitelli, thank you very much for some really interesting inform

vladimir putin really relies on — enter. vladimir putin really relies on the _ enter. the wagner - enter. vladimir putin really relies on the wagner group enter. vladimir putin really i relies on the wagner group to fight his wars, particularly when it comes to ukraine, so what can we expect next, particularly in this conflict in ukraine?— particularly in this conflict inukraine? . , ., in ukraine? that is really not true in terms _ in ukraine? that is really not true in terms of _ in ukraine? that is really not true in terms of ukraine. - in ukraine? that is really notj true in terms of ukraine. the wagner group played a significant role in one particular battle and they were getting really torn up and they work building many of their troops out. by the time the second ukraine counteroffensive started, the wagner forces really weren't fighting on the ground in ukraine but your point is relevant because it is when wagner turned against putin that the counteroffensive by ukraine which many believed it was going to be quite successful was just about to begin. the idea th

we followed putin before. this is right out of putin's playbook.s him, you're gonna pay with your life. and that's what happened to prigozhin. >> wagner's mercenaries have not just been tracked in ukraine. i mean, also syria, central african republic, sudan, libya. what does his death and the sidelining of another top general that wasn ukraine, what does that mean for the group going forward, do you think? >> well, i think it's likely that russia is going to try to make a move to take over the wagner group. and take control of it. i think having now acted against prigozhin, i think they are going to be very concerned about allowing these guys basically to continue to operate on their own. so i would not be surprised if they assert control over the wagner group in africa, asia, and wherever else they may be located. for that matter, i think those in the wagner group have got to worry about their own lives as well. >> and not just beyond what it means for the future of them. what does it mean for the future of ruch and putin's future? the elections i

they blew it up, and where will they say that the ukrainian saboteurs blew up putin?noia. and they reduced putin without that very much back on his safety, look even in turkey he didn’t fly, this is flying, we see sochi, they didn’t call it anything there, we had a place for putin to fly on airplanes, it will always be well, at such a risk that someone will take the long button, so uh, i think that this well, probably putin will recognize us and convert us, he will consider that it will be necessary in some way to add isolation to his existence, they will be isolated even more. i think that what this is the reason for the destruction of the frond, how it can affect the scenario of the war, the internal russian general scenarios , so to speak, the formation of this or that agenda related to the war, so because the minister, who at one time we remember it very well, so blessed, conditionally speaking, with on the russian side, the grain agreement in istanbul went to gerasim, you have your own putin there, there will be no displacement or any demand, i demand nothing, th

why is he still meets with putin. why does he still call him and invite him to visit? a position to leave at least one door open among nato member countries and developed countries. this is turkey's door so that, after all, at least, what kind of communication did the entire alliance have with putin? such as many because all other countries, as you know, closed this door once and for all . i think that only in order to maintain such communication with putin and at least somehow influence him, the possibility of meetings between the president of turkey erdogan and putin remains to wait for this meeting, that is, what will be the result according to you, putin and ordan, i expect that the first thing that will happen is turkey and the president of turkey will clearly say that he also has a military fleet, just like ukraine, which is a member of nato, so merchant shipping should be restored in that including the grain corridor, for example, from ukraine, we are a partner of turkey , we are a partner in the grain initiative, we are not russian partners, our grain partners

he wasn't fighting with putin. the whole thing escalated very dramatically, and put putin in a very weak, humiliated position, and you cannot afford to be a weakling in a -- when people think of you as a strongman. he needed to reassert himself. the only thing surprising is he waited two months to do it. >> can you predict the future with any real accuracy, when the rebellion first happened, the attempted rebellion, there was talk about how it might not mean the end of vladimir putin in the near term but sooner than later that he was going to be removed from power. do you see that happening, the war in ukraine has damaged him. or doing something like this if he's behind it. does that help him hang on for longer than the short-term? >> one of his most obvious rivals definitely helps him. prigozhin is a very capable killer and having him out of the picture, and having his people out of the picture is helpful for putin. the war itself though is what precipitated the crisis in the first place. putin thought this would

wants it, jordan can put pressure on putin, but he will try to reach a compromise for putin , now it, very important that he was able to show his strong side, so to speak, especially after hearing the beauty for putin to show that he is a weakling this will also diverge inside russia and outside of russia, and therefore to continue the grain agreement on the same terms. this is definitely not an option for putin, so i do not rule out and it is considered quite probable that russia will succeed in agreeing on domination, or more precisely , i do not want to say about restarting the grain agreement calling her deals but it's very difficult for the path to agree to just the status quo for him it will mean uh that he's a weakling he can't practice what he wants and i think he won't go for that literally second moment uh here there is of course there is a certain threat that turkey, which is important to us, but also part of the west will put pressure on us for the sake of certain compromises, because the export of grain is important for world stability , for world food security, for the

we don't know the level of idiocy. heir of putin, do not forget that putin is in this position

because in any other case it will be a plus for putin putin saw that there is no international law,right of the strong and this is wrong thank you , serhii vashchenko, director of the ukrainian grain company, joins our conversation in the meantime association p serhiu we congratulate you, we are glad to see you. so you are probably better than anyone at this moment to objectively assess the damages that ukraine is suffering because of russia's sabotage of the grain agreements and because it continues to stubbornly bombard the grain infrastructure of ukraine, can you for the moment estimate these damages, what are they affected by, first of all, it is definitely millions of dollars, it is difficult to calculate now, because it is necessary for the relevant services to evaluate everything , certify everything, then we can talk about some specific damages, but it is worth noting that this is much less than 10% of the onboard infrastructure of ukraine, so we despite all these events, for all these tragedies, we can still provide exports, for example , the danube ports are working normal

as for putin , putin has always fought as a traitor. he never forgave, when he took revenge, he alwaysook revenge, well, he did it very hard and for two months , he did it. so that the priority is not imagined, and putin, too, is the same as if they heard a dictatorship, the strengthening of its power , a personal personal dictatorship, maybe for some time, maybe быть это еще подвернутся erozii, but at the moment he threatened his challenge to his power, he removed it, despite the fact that the sentence was never against putin, a personal nosov against where we grow that in the administration of the president , the official foligarhov with rublevka and so on but under it, under everything, they read the system that litigate putin , that’s all it’s a sum, it’s a faceless mass. and putin ’s such a concrete face. went into the shadows, and then it was corrected in the mid-90s, but putin is definitely the element that shapes this system, and he strengthened everything in this personal quality, but there is one more feature - this system is now trying to move away from the authoritarian the

well , putin will probably recognize us and turn us around. it can affect the scenarios of the war, internal russian general scenarios , so to speak, the formation of this or that agenda related to the war, so because the minister of his time, we remember it very well, so blessed, conditionally speaking, from russian on the side of the grain agreement in istanbul, gerasim left , you have nightingale putin there, there will be no accommodation or any demand. it is not important to lose, but their loyalty will not be congratulated, they harbored doubts , will putin get rid of them, so there are some events at the end of the contour entry, the sudden loss of some cities that will be liberated by the ukrainian army from the invaders. as it is laid down by the rules of the apparatus , by the way, i bring a cannon, never opened, they did not respond to anything at all, he called i will not be here in your effelecitirovat, how come anyone heard that gerasimo boljosh they went on the air and they will collect all the rules . their fate is in the hands

— to vladimir putin? was very significant. _ to vladimir putin?icant, they _ to vladimir putin? was very significant, they go - to vladimir putin? was very significant, they go back - to vladimir putin? was very significant, they go back a l significant, they go back a long way, decades in st petersburg. first of the high—end restaurant owner and this is after he of course got out of prison when he was a teenager, then as had of internet research agency responsible for election interference in the united states in 2016 and a number of other countries. then as the head of wagner, the charismatic had whose troops really did the bulk of the fighting and much of ukraine including the one near siege of bakhmut which they managed to hold onto. in that sense he was important and of course started to attack the defence ministry a few months ago for their lacklustre conduct during the war. and he had this populist appeal to his followers on his telegram channel while their sons and brothers and husbands were fighting and dying in ukraine, the sons of the e

, let's start with the topic that may have been touched on on our air . sanctified war of vladimir putin that in fact russia claims only the territory of ukraine which it annexed and wrote down its constitution so everything else is of no interest do you believe in general a similar change of purpose, this is not what the russian leadership declared in general years and including after the start of the full-scale invasion 22 24 february 22 year a-a believes peskova and putin well, i think wrongly and no one on faith no words coming from the russian leadership yes and with circles of russian leaders, uh, maybe slava can’t accept it, and uh, the very statement is new, there is nothing behind it , because uh, there are no guarantees that russia will not start an obvious war after the immediate seizure of obvious territories in some way we all hoped that after the occupation of crimea in the 14th year, russia would stop, as we know , this did not happen and it will not stop, and i think it is impossible, frankly speaking, in the event of a theoretical armistice or the signing of peace agreem

that’s why putin will continue the war without any problems.e was already a lot of prediction of death . this is not a proizol understanding. be careful with this prediction, but the fact that she has a limit is in this russian room. thank you, mark, for this extremely interesting, honest conversation, and i want to remind our viewers that mark fegin, a member of the russian opposition in exile , a member of the state duma, and a well-known blogger, worked for them on the 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, turn on the championship on megogo. invincible oleksandr usyk vs. daniel speed and intelligence against a destructive force . find out who will win in the battle of the titans on august 26 exclusively on megogo. hello, my name is volodymyr chesnokov. i am the captain of the vorskla poltava football club for many years, at a time when cannons are thundering in the east and south of our country. i would like to thank ou

, and he is in command of putin's troops to any degree there is only one here and putin understands thatusian army should not be led into ukraine. this can destabilize the situation in belarus . there is a problem with lukashenko . is putin ready? today , belarus has problems. when putin survives for a few more years, ann will hunt for lukashenko to remove him from office, but today he needs lukashenko, and we can see that the next step of these agreements that you just talked about is that on the territory of belarus, at least that's what they say before the decontamination part of nuclear weapons, somewhere now, i don't know about static weapons, maybe there is other information that we don't know, and iran is now building not only in russia, but also in belarus enterprises where aircraft will be manufactured. what do you think, e what can be the next step, how far can they go , and what else will lukashenko sign up to, because we understand that we have a long , common border with belarus, and the shaheds can also run in sanatoriums in belarus and missiles so that it can be further. w

he was someone who was very close to putin.e pofl he was running foreign policy in africa, supporting dictators, you know, stealing money, getting access to diamond mines and gold mines for members of the russian elite. he was a very important inner court figure. he may not be someone putin could get rid of by poisoning him or pushing him out of a window. it may be that it took time to plan it. he may have wanted to make sure others died because some of prigozhin's leaders were on that plane. this is a clean sweep that gets rid of them all at once. >> what message does it send to anyone thinking of moving against putin in russia? >> it sends a message to say that we will now, we're now in the phase of spectacular violence, even at people very close to the leader. i should say, there have already been tonight some responses from members of the wagner group. there is a telechannel, it is associated with wagner that has explicitly threatened revenge. so yes, people will be frightened but now people are thinking about different kin

putin, australians were murdered.d by russian-backed rebels using russian-supplied equipment. we are very unhappy about this. mark: i mean, up to this point, russian-australian relations had very much been about trade and cultural contact. suddenly, it became much, much more conflictual, and suddenly we had the australian very much pushing for independent investigations for justice to be done, and that made, in a way, australia a problem for the kremlin, and the kremlin's natural response is, when it sees a problem, it makes problems back in return. sean: when protestors condemned putin over mh17 during the 2014 g20 meeting in brisbane, australian cossack simeon boikov led a counter rally defending the russian president. sean: four corners has learned australian authorities were monitoring boikov over concerns he may have raised money for separatists in ukraine and may have traveled to the conflict himself. sean: do you deny it? simeon: of course, i deny traveling to ukraine. i haven't been to ukraine since the beginn

they will do their work in front of putin.nt. but they will not be congratulated for their loyalty , they kept will putin get rid of them , so there are some events there, the end of the contour entry, the sudden loss of some cities that the ukrainian army will liberate from the invaders, well, it’s always possible, why not? they act instinctively, they keep quiet, they act as required by the rules of the apparatus, by the way, i bring a gun, never opened, they never responded to anything at all, he called , i will not be here with you in effelecitirovat, but to something, i heard that gerasimo bolkhoz went on the air and also responded to him they collect all the rules, their fate is in the hands of putin himself, dream, remove, lead to shame to remain in his capacity in the army is fermenting and will cause murder alarmingly some yes some yes absolutely but we see that there is no well there is no general of a powerful insurgent there is no such call to end the war which everything has already tired of in 17 months for 18 mo

so let's first listen to putin, then ask you a question. kyiv got its independence and independence with the collapse of the soviet union on the basis of the declaration of independence. in this declaration , it was written in black and white that ukraine is a neutral state and for us it has a principled meaning. why did the question start to drag ? ukraine it is very clear to me that this is what creates, in our opinion , a fundamental threat to our security because the advancement of the infrastructure of the military bloc that is aligned with us actually native to our borders is not acceptable, gentlemen, i understood him correctly, although in the end, can we understand putin correctly, but in this case, let it be so or correctly, i understood that putin is already this denazification, where militarization is a long time in the past, and he is now trying to at least somehow find to crawl out of the situation that he drove himself into and now the main thing for him is a neutral state and status god is with him denazification or demilita

does not agree with it, putin and others they always talk about only putin has changed dramatically thatituation has changed after that , it is not difficult to be beautiful, which is unfortunate , in fact, he is lucky for us, he decided to be a father who is pursued by people around him , putin’s power has weakened, according to attention, it is meaningless the fate of the war, which all the time left to beautify its speakers, they interpret half-hearted as such a hawk who fought against the soft putin so that they would be led harshly. a hopeless war, these people sat at which you asked, well , it is possible to speak of professional ones, and in general , they sat in front of the grm and they told him yes , we agree with your bad, well, an obstacle to putin, he wants to continue writing well, he is afraid что что всё всё очень ключения, well, such a calculated niphilia, he still won’t keep the power, he’s with you, and while the war is going on, and the timing is ending, it’s different, as if he reports that we’re the leadership, i think we need an operation of these people who are re

putin has a lot of power. it _ geopoliticalway. absolutely. putin has a lot of power.re and commentators have said. when he made the original statements and criticise the minister of defence, that was a moment of great surprise. i thought how could prudent allow this mutiny? i thought to myself how can prudent allow this? this sort of thing is not supposed to happen. he sort of lets prigozhin go free when prigozhin d escalates and then the knee fizzles out. how can prudent allow that? welcome now we can see what happened. 0f allow that? welcome now we can see what happened. of course, all of this is still unconfirmed is it putin? is it revenge taken by another? i would think prudent of course because that's how the russian system works. the things make sense now. 5m? russian system works. the things make sense now.— russian system works. the things make sense now. stay with us, but i 'ust want make sense now. stay with us, but i just want to — make sense now. stay with us, but i just want to show _ make sense now. stay with us, but i just want to show our _ make sense

putin face to face here there are not so many places where erdoğan and putin can talk face to face apartterritory of russia and turkey because, well, in the big 20s, maybe putin will fly there, although i doubt it, for example. what do you think about this isolation of putin, which he got into in connection with the warrant of the international criminal court, it turns putin into someone no, he understands that he is certain a political party, and i will just say that if it were some leader, like the former president of sudan, then the fate of this president has been a given for a long time , but because of this, the largest country in the world with nuclear weapons is the only thing that saves putin from being well, let's say he was convicted by an international court for such crimes that he committed in ukraine and not only in ukraine. as for turkey, well , here it is. here, a very interesting game is taking place. went, and moscow never confirmed it, it was always like that there, so to speak. well, a meeting is possible, but the place is being discussed, it is clear that now the game

putin refused to cancel his visit . in the end, you know that the president of the south african republic did such a thing. step he allowed the publication of his own testimony regarding the possible arrival of vladimir putin to johannesburg in court proceedings, the court published his testimony and vladimir putin became clear that, in principle , president paul of the south african republic well does not control the judicial system as much as he does in russia or at least i want to pretend that it is not so i control although i think that it is really not so controlling because you cannot compare the level with the independent judicial system of couples in the russian federation well, you understand that aromafosa will make changes in legislation so as not to arrest putin . they did it from the very beginning, let's send lavrov instead of me. and he himself. be on tv, here's how we are talking to you now. imagine that he won fos, but no one will arrest them if i come somewhere, that means i differ from putin in a bett

this is not a man who stood up to putin.e fought a crime with the top boss and suggested the war should be in a more brutal fashion. there will be no tears shed at all if he has died. we know he's on the list. if he were yevgeny prigozhin now, he probably would not pop up in public any time soon. we don't know if this plan was shot down or brought down deliberately who was behind that. we've been reporting on ukrainian drones being in russian air space. one question that may not be so hard to answer is the impact on the war on ukraine. i think it's fair most western officials saying they've been reduced and replaced and their role is kind of a van guard, the sort of championed warriors, brutal on the battlefield, they got the most extreme russians for the move they made toward moscow. this doesn't necessarily register a change in the battlefield but it will remind people of the vulnerability that putin faced on that weekend had one of his closest people essentially ended up, perhaps without realizing it, leading an armed mar

ithink putin... putin is always trying — things? ithink putin...always trying to be _ things? ithink putin... putin is always trying to be risk - things? ithink putin... putin is always trying to be risk averse | things? i think putin... putin is- always trying to be risk averse when it comes to challenges over his power and we know that he has used a different method, such as poisoning his opponents and in the case of alexei navalny and some of the opposition leaders he was able to successfully get rid of them and some of them ended up in prison, some of them ended up in prison, some of them were forced to leave the country, and he knows how to neutralise his opponents. in this case, the case of prigozhin was quite an unexpected one. i think we underestimated the threat and i think going forward he would be much more cautious and much more paranoid, i would say, when it comes to looking after, making sure that nobody dares to challenge him. again, because this might be actually quite fatal in this sense because he is no longer strong and he demons

i suspect putin — the security council. i suspect putin may _ the security council. an nod and a wink ltut— putin may have given it an nod and a wink but the — putin may have given it an nod and a wink but the operation will have been _ wink but the operation will have been organised by others. tell me what ou been organised by others. tell me what you make — been organised by others. tell me what you make of _ been organised by others. tell me what you make of the _ been organised by others. tell me what you make of the debt - been organised by others. tell me what you make of the debt as - been organised by others. tell me what you make of the debt as well been organised by others. tell me i what you make of the debt as well of dimitri utkin? what does that due to the wagner leadership? it is obviously — the wagner leadership? it is obviously a _ the wagner leadership? it is obviously a significant blow because he was _ obviously a significant blow because he was effectively the founder of wagner. — he was effectively the founder of wagner, but it doesn't mean ther

but with on the other side, after all, putin is now using e.e.early and lukashenko is paying the debt for 2020 for remaining in power and this whole story. by the way, nukes have nothing to do with ukraine and a full-scale war because there were a lot of changes and in the constitution and the preparation of the legislative one, it was stretched out in time. that is, this is a separate track for putin in relation to belarus, this provocation. it really prepared for a very long time in relation to nuclear weapons , so i think that lukashenko. of course, he is now trying to sit on two chairs, but the longer the war goes on, well, it's really difficult for him, and on the other hand , he can become a certain ally in opposition to moscow, this is beijing , with which the lukashenka family has an unofficial joint business and production on the territory of belarus. and it is precisely the chinese who can influence as a certain balance in these efforts today by putin through belarus to attack the nato countries and their respective eastern flank of the

and i think russians will cheer for putin. as soon as anyone else comes along, they will cheer for them, instead. they are basically fed up with the stagnant economy, with the war and the other problems of the putin regime and with putin himself. >> really appreciate your analysis on this important story. edward lucas, thank you so much. >> thanks, kim. >>> up next, eight republican rivals take the stage for the first presidential primary debate of the 2024 race. donald trump wasn't one of them. we'll have the highlights just ahead. >>> plus, this is the jail in fulton county where donald trump is expected to sur vrender late today. the latest on the georgia election subversion case next. stay with us. who's winning? we are, my friend. we are. how can you sleep on such a firm setting? gab, mine is almost the same as yours. almost is just another word for not as good as mine. save 50% on the sleep number® limited edition smart bed. plus, 60-month financing on all smart beds. shop now only at sleep number®. lysol is supporting s

by the way, next week bricks is also going to send sergei lavrov instead of putin. and why is it important for mr. vitaly to stay at least somewhere for putin because he cannot go to the south african republic because all the calls are not a war criminal, and vladimir putin really wanted to go there, incredible, they twisted the hands of the president of the south african republic, laura makhosi, then they broke the hands of the president of the syrian republic of south africa sirila ramakhos, then something was done with his hands, he talked to putin every day and convinced him that there was no need to go. putin refused to cancel his visit , in the end, you know that the president of the south african republic took such a step. he allowed his own e- e testimony regarding the possible arrival of vladimir putin to johannesburg in a judicial procedure, the court made public his testimony and vladimir putin became clear that, in principle , president paul of the south african republic well, that is not how he controls the judicial system how is he in russia, or at lea

those who came are urging putin to return to the grain race. turn a blind eye to the issue between russia and ukraine because these are two countries with which we have a partnership and we see negative consequences all over the world , particularly in africa. we must see how we can find a solution. putin himself justifies himself that in africa he can the beginning of a famine traditionally blames the west, we will be ready in the next month, in the next 3-4 months, to provide burginophos free of charge to zimbabwe, mali, somalia, the central african republic of eritrea for 25/50,000 tons of grain, and we will provide free delivery of this product to the consumer, which is so expensive that ukrainian grain, replacing it russian or what was stolen from the occupied territories, and another is to expand the list of countries friendly to russia in order to win the favor of african countries. putin laden says to sow them with seeds. for the sake of those who cooperate with us the most, but behind these good intentions, in fact, you are quite a cun