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While wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin was on the rampage against officials in moscow, officials in kyiv were largely silent, following napoleon s advice, never to interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake. briefly, many ukrainians entertained the hope that civil war or chaos in russia would lead to an early end to war, but prigozhin s sudden about-face dashed those hopes. sunday ukrainian presidential adviser said in an interview he was hoping for something more concrete, perhaps a civil war in russia. he said he was still confident that will eventually happen. while attention was diverted away from the front, the fighting went on. sunday, ukrainian officials claimed their forces had seized a kilometer, a kilometer stretch of trenches near bakhmut. ....
reporter: alexandr lukashenko rules belarus like a personal fiefdom, president since its creation in 1994, he brooks little opposition. dubbed europe s last dictator, lukashenko has come to be defined by his fealty to his powerful neighbor, russia s president vladimir putin, transforming belarus into a nearby vassal state. putin used lukashenko and belarus to help launch his 2022 invasion of ukraine, driving tanks over belarus border towards kyiv and using belarusian skies to bomb ukrainians. translator: we will never be enemies of russia, and we will never look disprovingly at russia. this is the country closest to us, the people closest us to. i think that while we re in power, we will stick to this tendency. if it were otherwise, it would be like in ukraine. ....
alexander lukashenko rules belarus, and he is dubbed europe s lasting tatea, he has been defined by russia s president, vladimir putin, transforming belarus into a near vassal state. he helped launched his 2022 invasion of ukraine, and using belarusian skies to bomb ukrainians. translator: we will never be enemies of russia and never look disapprovingly of russia and this is the country and people closest to us, and while we are in power we will stick to this ....
Losing his troops to them says the whole war was started on false pretexts. the ukrainians did not provoke us. we decided to do it because we wanted to control them because we a whole bunch of oligarchs who had been making money in the donbas. he provides a kind of alternative narrative that is not one that looks good for putin. it completely contradicts putin s own narrative about ukraine being taken over by neo-nazis. and i wonder whether that will turn out to be, you know, if things go down badly for putin, i wonder if this becomes a central issue, which is that his own guy says the whole rational for this war is a lie. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has spoken with close allies about the turmoil in russia, saying the crisis is a result of russia s own aggression. translator: the longer ....
Hour deal brokered by belarus, but not before cracks appeared on putin s hold on power. he has held power for almost a quarter century. at no point since putin was named acting president by boris yeltsin in 1999. the price of that is loyalty. though he had a falling out with the putin government as recently as may, yevgeny prigozhin said, quote, i love the motherland. i listen to putin. here s what cnn fareed zakaria told jim sciutto on a potential fallout from the insurrection. to me, jim, the more important sign here was prigozhin s own remarks when he basically decided to frontally attack the rational for invading ukraine. this is the most interesting thing that s happened in some ways in the last 48 hours. prigozhin, who has been fighting the ukrainians and has been ....