even if prigozhin had succeeded and even if he had taken defense minister shoigu and chief of general staff garerasimov, and don t think putin would have fallen for that blackmail and i don t think it would have changed anything. i m curious what you think about what will happen to prigozhin and anyone else that the fsb or that, you know, putin s close corners decide were involved in this? i think prigozhin is a very precarious situation. yes, he s exiled to belarus, and yes, putin promised him amnesty and the key thing is that the amnesty was for the mutiny and there are other charges that he could be brought on and putin alluded that he may have been stealing some of the money that from the state contracts for running wagner and catering to
against anything particularly dramatic like the use of battlefield nuclear weapons, for example. so if you are saying that china sees western liberal democracy on the decline the white house is now urging xijinping to tell president putin to respect ukraine s sovereignty, will that fall on deaf ears? would he want to actively encourage the end of russia s invasion of ukraine? i think he would like this to end. i really don t think putin signed up for a long war, although it is delivering some advantages to him. but if you look at the 12 point proposal that china put forward, it does have territorial integrity and national sovereign treat as key principles. now you might think that that would mean russia needs to withdraw, and i do certainly, i m sure, what zielinski will say when they have a phone call, the first direct communication
a term understood to refer to america s global dominance. but it s the relationship between moscow and beijing, which many in the west see as an obstacle to chinese mediation efforts. and today s meeting seems to have brought them closer together. here s the chinese leader speaking about president putin. translation: dear president putin, i i always call you my dear friend . | i was very glad to receive your proposal with a state visit once again. after my re election as chairman of china s communist party, i chose russia as the first foreign country to visit. it s comments like those, which raise eyebrows in kyiv. the secretary of ukraine s national security and defence council tweeted, suggesting china s plan missed out some key details. 0leksiy danilov said that. likewise, the foreign
turn. and he is keeping to that. so it is usual for turn. and he is keeping to that. so it is usualfor xijinping to have russia on the side. he certainly doesn t want putin to fall. he doesn t want putin to fall. he doesn t want putin to fall. he doesn t want an unpredictable situation. that s a very long border. and so he needs to keep putin close, but hopefully to influence him against anything particularly dramatic like the use of battlefield nuclear weapons, for example. so if you are saying that china sees western liberal democracy on the decline the white house is now urging xijinping to on the decline the white house is now urging xi jinping to tell president putin to respect ukraine s sovereignty. lmilli president putin to respect ukraine s sovereignty- sovereignty. will that fall on deaf ears? will he sovereignty. will that fall on deaf ears? will he want sovereignty. will that fall on deaf ears? will he want to sovereignty. will that fall on deaf ears? will he want to
but china s foreign ministry spokesman denied any plan to send weapons, and criticised the west for giving weapons to ukraine. translation: china, as always, upholds an objective and just - position over the ukraine crisis. what we ve done is to promote peace talks. we will continue to play a constructive role in the political settlement. as for the remarks of so called us government sources, i would like to stress that it is the united states, not china, that provides weapons to the battlefield in ukraine. and in moscow, evgeny popov a member of president putin s united russia party said he did not believe putin would be asking china for more weapons. i think our factories are good, and we have enough weaponsj to do what we want to do. i don t think we will ask