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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko noted during a press conference on Tuesday that

Battalion posted that a drone dropped a poisonous substance of unknown origin and three people suffered affects from it. lets bring in jake tapper now. he is with us in lviv. jake, we heard the russian president there. he spoke today. he seemed to confirm what we have suspected, he is not interested in talks with ukraine. now what? >> the war continues. what he said at that joint press conference with lukashenko is that the atrocities in bucha were fake. they posited it was the brits who staged ...

So i think now between the end of april it could become critical. >> it could be. i will tell you, maybe it is the old neocon in me, but lukashenko opening his mouth talking about being part of the peace process. for zelenskyy, he can say, look, you can stay out of the war and then were going to kill the russians and then we are coming after you, lukashenko. we are look ink at you. you keep at this and you will not be in charge of your little country anymore. your dictatorship will be over, beca...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, whom the EU and the United States do not recognize as legally elected, said that the Belarusian side must be represented at the negotiations on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine.

In the region. so maybe sergey and carl can pick up on that. looking at post—soviet countries and conflicts there, are there some aspects to putins policy where he actually acts as a stabilising force, as he has in kazakhstan? i would argue yes. in terms of kazakhstan — i personally think kazakhstan has been a hideous dictatorship, and — but, you know, they had chaos. the russians went in, when they went in, the international expert community exploded with commentaries to the effect that r...

End up. >> and, of course, the worst case is something that happens by accident, or by the lack of stability in ukraine. mike mcfaul just yesterday, u.s. treasury department sanctioned four ukrainians including two parliament members trying to overthrow the government. and now you got lukashenko coming back in the country. how instable a situation is this? >> well, the situation in ukraine is unstable. and it helps to make it unstable. lets be clear, no agreement about non-nato expansion will st...

So maybe sergey and carl can pick up on that. looking at post—soviet countries and conflicts there, are there some aspects to putins policy where he actually acts as a stabilising force, as he has in kazakhstan? i would argue yes. in terms of kazakhstan — i personally think kazakhstan has been a hideous dictatorship, and — but, you know, they had chaos. the russians went in, when they went in, the international expert community exploded with commentaries to the effect that russia was annex...

That, looking at post—soviet countries and conflicts there, are there some aspects to putin because my policy where he actually acts as a stabilising force, as he has in kazakhstan? i would argue yes. in terms of kazakhstan, i think kazakhstan has been a hideous dictatorship, but, you know, they had chaos, the russians went in, when they went in, the international expert community exploded with commentaries to the effect that russia was an acting almost kazakhstan, and restoring the ussr. a fe...

To what carl has just put very simply. we will become stable, free, and independent of the... of the cult of a leader. so it is a great dream of many ukrainians not to know the name ofa minister, ora prime minister, because they are changing, but the country and the principles are remaining, and that is what democracy is. and that world is the expectation of the stability and that peace in europe, to make sure that there is a freedom of choice, that there is stability and we are not waiting for ...

So that shows that putin is not set on absolutely creating a great empire, he is trying to sustain friends and clients in central asia, he is certainly doing it with lukashenko in belarus, he knows his limitations, and the fact that the russians pulled out of kazakhstan quickly i think shows that. olhas question about instability in former post—soviet countries, we have seen russia been a real destabilising force in georgia for instance, where it backed the breakaway separatists there in south...