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Offensive against ukrainian forces in the offensive failed. they gained no territory. so this has weakened vladimir putin in the eyes of the hardliners and let me putin appears to be trying to adjust. talking about the role of belarus and all of this. russia claims it is — belarus and all of this. russia claims it is moving _ belarus and all of this. russia claims it is moving tactical- claims it is moving tactical nuclear weapons into belarus and we just heard he was told that if ukraine can ...

Down and killed during that much of the wagner mercenaries on moscow. although the circumstances of that are still unclear. so about, as i say, reasserting this idea that putin is strong. at the same time today we have been hearing more about what has been happening to yevgeny prigozhin. it has been confirmed by the belarusian president he has arrived in belarus, that his plane landed this morning, and that he will be given somewhere to stay there. he has been told that he can bed down there for...

I think that lukashenko might have been only used by the kremlin in this sort of supportive role, because what were the alternatives for putin, to kill prigozhin? i think it would have beenjust too harsh. so he suddenly remembered that he has a very close ally, lukashenko, and he has belarus as his back yard, as russias back yard. this is how they treat the country. and i think that was the sort of saving face mode for both prigozhin and putin in this situation to send prigozhin to belarus. we d...

So we dont know whats going to, what effects and what the outcome is going to be out of these conversations, negotiations. however, i think it shows that lukashenko is a puppet of putin. i dont think it was a separate, independent game from his side. and secondly, again, that he uses belarus. putin uses belarus as a back yard. as events developed inside russia the bbc�*s verify team worked to sift through videos on social media to track the convoy of wagner vehicles. they are now assessing the...

Putin is not a person who controlled anything in russia. putin has long played off different factions against each other — his top general and defence minister, seen here, were both a target of prigozhin�*s anger. but this is now getting harderfor him. for the russian people, the events will have come as a shock, undermining the kremlin�*s attempts to control the flow of information. the reception given to the departing wagner forces last night in rostov shows some still regard them as her...

Nato. this exposes weakness in the kremlin facing —— placing at risk the headquarters in rostov, diverting the attention of russian soldiers and decreasing the morale of russian frontline soldiers presents a huge opportunity for the ukrainian counteroffensive. now is the time to strike, while russia and their attention is divided, and while russia has to look not only to the west, to the ukrainian counteroffensive but now increasingly to the east, and wondering about the loyalty is forces in...

Many believe that lukashenko wants to recreate stalin—style grip on the country, so nobody dares to contest the next election. many belarussians came here to lithuania in an attempt to flee the repressions. there are currently around 19,000 of them living here. in retaliation, the belarussian regime has decided to target their relatives who stayed behind. and many fear that this isjust the beginning. anatoly was detained more times than he can remember, but he says that families of activists w...

Lukashenko has repeatedly said that his country stands for peace between russia and ukraine. but despite this, he allowed russia to use belarus as a platform to send troops into ukraine in 2022. in 2020, lukashenko claimed another presidential victory, but the results have not been recognised by the west. the election sparked unprecedented protests demanding lu kashenko�*s resignation. these ended in a repression that continues to this day. translation: it would have happened in 2020 if it was...

Question, why are political prisoners still in prisons? there is strong actions the democratic world could do in response to the crimes that lukashenko and his cronies did. so when we were going from country to country asking to impose tough and joint sanctions against the regime, we got words of support, words of condemnation of this regime, but not real actions. only after hijacking of ryanair flight, strong sanctions have been imposed, but even they left so many loopholes in those sanctions t...

Svetla na tikhanovskaya, welcome to hardtalk. hello. its nice to have you in our studio. tell me, what are your feelings as you see your country, belarus, being used as a launchpad for vladimir putins invasion of ukraine? you know, on 2a february, we woke up in a new reality, and we understood that lukashenko gave our land as the aircraft carrier for putins troops to invade ukraine. we were shocked. nobody believed that the war could start because we remember