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Grip. that suggests that there are things that we could and should be doing in particular to support the ukrainians in this counteroffensive at the weapons that they them have said and we really need. , yes the weakness that president putin has shown does affect him. they probably affect some vis-à-vis china. china was always saw president putin as the junior partner, the little brother. and now the little brother is less powerful than even they thought. others around the world are noticing that as well. >> kevin, can you dig deeper for us? we are doing some coverage on the wagner group and w...

Being stopped by his own security forces. that it can take over the headquarters of the russian military in the south of the country without firing a shot. that's what prigozhin forces, what his forces succeeded in doing on saturday. and i think as a number of observers have said, prigozhin has demonstrated that vladimir putin no longer has the monopoly on the use of force in his country after 23 years in power. >> i want to ask you too about belarus. why would prigozhin go there? why was alexander lukashenko the dealmaker? >> reporter: right. well, belarus is a much smaller country than russi...

Don't know either. lukashenko has a 20-year history of knowing prigozhin and it's part based on that knowledge of each other that he stepped in here, and the best analysis has to be lukashenko who is a weaker partner to putin. putin stepped in and helped him out in those elections in 2020 that were widely regarded as fraudulent and he asked putin for help and putin stepped in. lukashenko and belarus have become a base for putin's war in ukraine to the south. he is very much the junior partner and he is unlikely to have gone out on a limb and helped prigozhin here. equally, when you look at pri...

Viewed as a junior partner of vladimir putin. maybe some harsher words that may come out, as well. even more so in the course of the last year and a half. since the russian security forces helped him face down his own uprising after very contentious elections that he was accused of rigging. out of the blue, in the midst of the biggest challenge and potential power struggle to face vladimir putin, which he compared to the 1917 revolution. he himself, and addressing the nation on saturday, out of the blue, he apparently, according to the kremlin, brokers a peace deal with him that ends the spect...

Seth moulton saying that freedom and human rights are universal, this is going to catch up with putin one way or another. criminals catch up with war criminals. this is why authoritarians lose, let's hope she jinping is paying attention. and then senator marco rubio of the all important u.s. senate intel committee said something similar that, this impact shows that china's junior partner and they're anti-u.s. coalition is significantly weaker and more vulnerable than ever. so, this is echoing not just within russia, ukraine, but also china, as well. and another thing that i've been seeing from...