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Interview. he said he spoke to putin on saturday morning and talked about what to do with the wagner chief including potentially killing him. but lukashenko says he told putin not to rush his response. he then says he spoke with prigozhin and told him putin would quote squash him like a bug. state media in belarus says the now exiled wagner head is within their borders. joining me from moscow is keir simmons. thats quite a readout from lukashenko. what do we know about what prigozhin stands in t...

President, lukashenko, that indeed the leader of the wagner group, he says, is safe and is in belarus. >> well, thats what we expected to happen. hes there obviously. theres no deal with him for putin as he made his speech yesterday. hes referring to this as treason and a betrayal. he is extending the olive branch clearly to the wagner group when he says most of them indeed are patriots. so they can join the ministry of defense likely as soldiers under contract with the ministry of defense, rema...

Was to underestimate your enemy and overestimate your own capabilities and maybe an opportunity. so the ukrainians need to stay extremely focused. this is like the hedge rows in normandy after the landings. >> fight hedge row by hedge row. >> 50 yards by 50 yards. the only way to get through it is to pop your head up and become a target. this is not dissimilar from that. the ukrainians have to be very aggressive with their intelligence collection and their maneuvers. >> theyre claiming some succ...

Monday has been declared a non-working day in Moscow to allow time for things to settle, and there was little evidence of increased security in the capital on Sunday evening. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, one of the main targets of Prigozhin's anger, visited Russian troops involved in the military operation in Ukraine, state-run RIA news agency reported on Monday while providing no details on when and where.

Eye to -- the dangers that he presented to them in russia. yevgeny prigozhin in belarus is hardly out of sight and out of mind. in less he was dispatched there for a reason, a separate sphere of military authority from russias military defense especially giving recent rumors over lukashenkos health. he remains a powerful leader of violent men and prigozhin is not the type to bow out quietly, it does not feel like this is his final act. sky news, moscow. >> okay burly gets perspective on this wee...

What is happening and belarus with lukashenko, and zelenskyy of course. >> this idea, this -- does not wholly at, up you, know he is losing influence, his wagner group has been -- like, that and felt more like a kind of cry to retain his autonomy. we know hes been very frustrated by bakhmut, we have discussed it, he initially, needed it felt more as if you are trying to make a point, and that kind of grew back in his face to some degree. for me, that probably explains why he is involved in mosco...

Any resistance, whatever resistance that was was taking out without no time. they had to rely on lukashenko, the president of belarus, to find a way out of the situation. that does not sound like somebody is in control or somebody who is strong instead somebody was weak. once, it seems to, me regimes like this, the leaders exposed to be weak, all things and all questions are up in the air. this is a system based on paranoia. frankly, putin has done a lot to base a system of paranoia and now ever...

Affairs. william taylor, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, he is also the united states institute of peace, vice president for russia and europe, ambassador, lets start with you. your reaction to what we have seen play out over the last 72 hours. >> stephanie, the remarkable thing, the weakness of president putin. his grip on power seems to be shaken. his ability to act seems to be constrained. he had to go to president lukashenko is not known to be a heavyweight in this area in order to get so...

With lukashenko, and the president there who for all intents and purposes is a puppet for putin, so there must have been some deal with putin? >> absolutely, but it could have been that prigozhin did at the calculations that he would be taking his country into a very dangerous complex civil war, but he has done enough to ensure that i was just articulating, that putin gave is eventually over, not today, not tomorrow, but certainly in the months to come we will see different forces fighting again...

The nuclear warheads. are you surprised at the role that belarus is now playing despite what lukashenko is saying, that they dont want to be part of this? >> yes. its true that lukashenko wants to survive and not to be involved too much into the russian debacle. what it means, its hard to say this moment. there are all kinds of theories. one is actually very unpleasant for ukraine, that wagner will gain power there and will be able at least to threaten a second front from the north. the other on...