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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

that putin was behind this? >> it is quite interesting that all the people i spoke with today immediately assumed that it was putin who was behind this attack, not say some rogue -- or independent. for me it is a sign that putin was quite successful at very established and political control and sending his message to the military, specifically to the military. but there is no space, no room for any independent action. >> it was just a couple weeks ago that you were predicting that prigozhin would either be dead or that there would be a second coup by the end of the year. what do you think about the timing here if putin was behind this? >> again, on the assumption that putin was behind it, and there seems to be no force in russia that could have done this outside of putin's authorizational purview. then the only question is why did it happen so fast? the reason why we discussed on this program a couple of weeks ago that putin must avenge, must eliminate, neutralize prigozhin once he called him a traitor because o

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

everything knows putin. this is how putin views traitors and he will not stop. just because prigozhin had a couple months to walk around and recruit troops to go to africa, there was always this sword over his head. >> and putin attempted to kill a former kbg agent who turned himself over to british authorities. he tried to kill him with nerve agent and he successfully killed another opponent. there is no worse crime to putin to be one of his guys and then betray him. >> julia, i wonder what you make of the various developments that we have seen here recently, the general getting the boot, someone whose loyalty to putin was questioned in the wake of the coup, putin recently purging a lot of generals. there's been a pattern of him cleaning house here in recent months. >> yup, and this seems like the last bit of clean-up that was left. it seemed like in the meantime putin cleared up the people who were directly in his chain of command so with the military, we still haven't seen sorokin, we haven't heard from him. people in the u.s. government are telling me he's l

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

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

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

and what will putin think about them?hy not them, and in general , the election process for putin will be very difficult now, since they will be preparing no elections there. presidential and we are not even talking about free and honest people or something like that, we are talking about the fact that it will be putin's election and all this, the whole performance will be based on this, so the question of showing your feelings, as they say, loyal subjects, will be very important for the russian elite, otherwise, what about where and how will you be, will your merits not be forgotten? here is putin talking about prigozhyn's merits. well, the big question in general is, first of all, what will they give to russia now with an asset worth in africa? putin says this, and for me, for example, a very interesting question prigozhyn and with his legacy, so to speak, in the sense of compromising prigozhyn is not stupid. he understands that the spiders in the bank have to ensure their existence and worry about their safety, and he

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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

putin cut a deal with him. he went to belarus for a while, but then he came back, and most recently, when vladimir putin was hosting two dozen african leaders in st. petersburg, prigozhin was having side meetings with many after can leaders. from his perspective, he thought everything was in good standing with the kremlin. @the fact that he was flying a plane out of moscow instead of taking a train or doing something safer suggests he thought things were fine with the kremlin. obviously it sounds like he was wrong in that assessment. >> are you surprised at all that he was making those movements within russia from moscow to st. petersburg? >> again, it was confusing because initially putin called him a traitor on national tv. right? think about the president of the united states, president biden gets on tv from the oval office and says these guys are traitors, we are going to deal with them accordingly and then just a few hours later, he cut a deal with them. that created all kinds of speculation about what put

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

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her erdogan hopes that vladimir putin will visit turkey already this month. dates have not yet been determined, but erdogan says that the minister of foreign affairs of turkey and the head of intelligence are holding talks . i believe that this visit will take place in august. well, he will climb out of his hole called the russian federation somewhere, and it is desirable that he climbs out somewhere closer to the country that ratified the rome statute, and our wishes are completely understandable, but turkey is not such a country, except that erdogan pursues only his own interests and the interests of our state, we cannot ignore the fact that this leader also has certain geopolitical ambitions. evgeny , can this visit happen and can it be crowned with something similar to the grain agreement in the black sea ? please be brief, i am skeptical about the possibility of this visit . i believe that putin is afraid to leave the borders of russia and is not unreasonably afraid. putin with local law enforcement officers, you understand how this will destroy his auth

well, of course, when putin says that according to some data, they were there putin has known everything and when he tries to be so uh, somehow cautious, what is more, he is demonstratively careful to say something, it sounds like to me a rather pretty bad beauty, nevertheless, uh, an extraordinary, extraordinary personality for today's axis, he is one of those who was charismatic there. visited the russian evangelicals, now putin is drifting from such a classic autocratic regime during the months of our war to a classic dictatorship there , everyone is being purged. girkin is in prison. someone also destroyed eh. i think that this process continues for putin and the stability of his regime. what does he think, does he think that the russian empire? it is not fair. what mountains is the regime, because he likes to compare himself there with the fifth , the first, with others, eh, this is question number one, and in my opinion, in the near term, in the very short term, his regime has a chance that he will become tough, he will become stronger , but in the future, this is a fundamental cha

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

this could backfire against putin, if putin were somehow responsible for this, odds that he were were very high, but i think there's a lot of questions. unfortunately here in the united states we have a, what i consider a weak leader. we have more foreign policy uncertainty today than at any time in recent memory. so, this is when leadership matters and i hope that we can somehow regain our standing as the world leader and someone who can come in and the united states be that shining symbol of democracy and the adult at the table that tries to bring countries together instead of further divide and create more tension. >> sandra: congressman, good to have you here, live from milwaukee with us. and the white house did reach out to the nsc for comment as john mentioned, attributed to an nsc spokesperson, we have seen the reports, if concerned, no one should be surprised. disastrous war in ukraine led to a private army marching on moscow and now this. considering this if this is all true and this show from vladimir putin, what do you believe would be a very important timely and relevant q

vladimir putin is a war criminal.ions today is just a further indication of that. >> and with regard to ukraine's fight against russia's invasion right now, i want to press you on this, congressman. trump says the conflict is not a vital u.s. interest. vivek ramaswamy has suggested ukraine cede territory to russia. do you think this renews the urgency of supporting ukraine's efforts to combat russia's invasion? >> absolutely. donald trump is wrong. vivek is wrong. vivek himself has said he's only been paying attention to foreign policy starting six months ago. here's the reality. the united states of america built an international order that has benefited us. when we don't defend that international order, it hurts us. for 5% of the entire d.o.d. budget, we've been able to dismantle the russian military without having to send our sons or daughters or spouses over to the conflict. i think that's a pretty good deal. the problem is, not with the amount of money, but the speed in which we've been giving the equipment that

erdoğan putin in turkey, and several times the turkish media reported that putin would come to erdoğanhey would talk about the grain agreement. literally yesterday, there was a report that erdoğan would now fly to putin in russia, is it related to putin's insult to erdogan for handing over the commanders of azov to zelenskiy chysin, and some other reason is possible, an international warrant from the international criminal court, although turkey, as far as i remember, did not join the rome statute and in principle it putin could feel at ease there, according to you, why did this aggravation happen now between putin and the state, taking into account the fact that erdağan is still one of the few people in the western world, and i still believe that he is part of the western world, which is also welcomed with he speaks and conducts some affairs, that is, i believe that the reason for this is the beginning of concerted actions between ankara and jerusalem, the events in syria, and i ask the listeners to pay attention to the fact that recently the airfields of damascus and other cities hav