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Offensive against ukrainian forces in the offensive failed. they gained no territory. so this has weakened vladimir putin in the eyes of the hardliners and let me putin appears to be trying to adjust. talking about the role of belarus and all of this. russia claims it is — belarus and all of this. russia claims it is moving _ belarus and all of this. russia claims it is moving tactical- claims it is moving tactical nuclear weapons into belarus and we just heard he was told that if ukraine can fight with other peoples weapons, why can't i? how seriously should we take those comments? hat can'...

Down and killed during that much of the wagner mercenaries on moscow. although the circumstances of that are still unclear. so about, as i say, reasserting this idea that putin is strong. at the same time today we have been hearing more about what has been happening to yevgeny prigozhin. it has been confirmed by the belarusian president he has arrived in belarus, that his plane landed this morning, and that he will be given somewhere to stay there. he has been told that he can bed down there for a bit if he wants to, and the belarussian�*s will essentially look after him. and, indeed, any wa...

I think that lukashenko might have been only used by the kremlin in this sort of supportive role, because what were the alternatives for putin, to kill prigozhin? i think it would have beenjust too harsh. so he suddenly remembered that he has a very close ally, lukashenko, and he has belarus as his back yard, as russia's back yard. this is how they treat the country. and i think that was the sort of saving face mode for both prigozhin and putin in this situation to send prigozhin to belarus. we don't know the exact details. we don't know the timeline of these negotiations, let's put it this wa...

So we don't know what's going to, what effects and what the outcome is going to be out of these conversations, negotiations. however, i think it shows that lukashenko is a puppet of putin. i don't think it was a separate, independent game from his side. and secondly, again, that he uses belarus. putin uses belarus as a back yard. as events developed inside russia the bbc�*s verify team worked to sift through videos on social media to track the convoy of wagner vehicles. they are now assessing the aftermath. 0ur europe correspondent, nick beake, has been working with the team and is in the bb...

Putin is not a person who controlled anything in russia. putin has long played off different factions against each other — his top general and defence minister, seen here, were both a target of prigozhin�*s anger. but this is now getting harderfor him. for the russian people, the events will have come as a shock, undermining the kremlin�*s attempts to control the flow of information. the reception given to the departing wagner forces last night in rostov shows some still regard them as heroes. their mutiny may be over, but the shock waves it's left behind are just beginning. gordon corer...