he s a war criminal and he can bring the war to belarus. we don t want that. we heard from prigozhin today that lukashenko promised him to legalize the wagner crew. what that means in practice, we don t know. there are rumors that wagner was to open up in our territory. if that happened, there could be threats. just imagine thousands of foreign troops in our territory. prigozhin might be involved in military training or whatever. to your point, i know you and your team banishment. sorry. we lost you for a moment. finish your thought. just heard an interesting opinion today that we don t know if banishment of prigozhin is deportation or his mission, for example, to make provocation in
monday we re still investigating what you did. later today the kremlin indicating that they need to take sometime to analyze what they do about wagner. we ll speak to the belarus opposition leader to see what she knows about where prigozhin is. you heard the state department perhaps in diplomatic understatement describing the situation in russia as remaining dynamic. i know you ve been pushing sources throughout the last 24, 48 hours. what is our best understanding of the state of affairs in russia right now in the wake of this? reporter: the kremlin will try to slow things down. they put out holding video of putin, holding video of the minister of defense who prigozhin is still saying is doing a bad job and he should go. it s a holding pattern by the kremlin. putin is not speaking. that allows him to disassociate
agreeing with the military power in russia and it also was humiliating for him because he had to return back heading only 200 kilometers to moscow. the story is not over. before we go, you know that putin does not like challenges to his own leadership and power. lukashenko is his man, in effect, in belarus. is your life in danger for challenging lukashenko? i think that the life and freedom of everyone who is opposing the regime and who is opposing the war, they likely face threats because, of course, lukashenko, it s a huh miliatio for lukashenko that people are opposing him and not giving up.
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room, that the u.s. does not know where prigozhin is at this point. where do you think he could be? where do you think he may be headed? ultimately belarus as we ve been told, what do you think? well, i ll tell you what he won t be doing. he won t be riding a tractor into the sunset. he won t be digging potato feeds in belarus, nor will he be going into the jungles of africa where wagner has operations. i think he ll re-emerge. given the way the russian military has performed, i think this rehabilitation might take place. we re getting reports that wagner is recruiting fighters. it s just really difficult to fathom that he would disappear off the face of the earth. having said that, stranger things have happened to opponents or people who are suspected of opposing mr. putin