our guard. it smacks of being true, which is crazy but true. putin won t be able to trust prigozhin again. he will have to be on the outside, i think, maybe not immediately, but soon enough. if i were him, i would be worrying for my life. be worrying for my life. michael, for the last be worrying for my life. michael, for the last 20 be worrying for my life. michael, for the last 20 odd be worrying for my life. michael, for the last 20 odd years, - be worrying for my life. michael, for the last 20 odd years, when l be worrying for my life. michael, l for the last 20 odd years, when we have looked at vladimir putin s power and the institutions he s created and the way he has maintained his power and governed and ruled over his people, and these institutions, from afar, it did look like it came from a position of strength. what we saw 16 months ago in ukraine was a military that seemed incredibly powerful. i remember standing in ukraine and saying it is only a matter of when not i
prigozhin. michael o hanlonjoins vladimir putin and yevgeny prigozhin. michael o hanlon joins us now. lots of developments in the last hour also. the later is we are hearing is that belarus s leader has broken some deal, and yevgeny prigozhin has agreed to stop this convoy from heading to moscow. weill. convoy from heading to moscow. well, it makes sense convoy from heading to moscow. well, it makes sense that convoy from heading to moscow. well, it makes sense that he convoy from heading to moscow. -ii it makes sense that he could broker this deal because what prigozhin is doing, although we might have so emotional hope it will change it, is risky from his point of view, and frankly from our western point of view. civil war and a new colour on state has always been one of the worst case scenarios in international nations, and the idea could have been in an ongoing state war work russia as a materials has
our guard. it smacks of being true, which is crazy but true. putin won t be able to trust prigozhin again. he will have to be on the outside, i think, maybe not immediately, but soon enough. if i were him, i would be worrying for my life. be worrying for my life. michael, for the last be worrying for my life. michael, for the last 20 be worrying for my life. michael, for the last 20 odd be worrying for my life. michael, for the last 20 odd years, - be worrying for my life. michael, for the last 20 odd years, when l be worrying for my life. michael, i for the last 20 odd years, when we have looked at vladimir putin s power and the institutions he s created and the way he has maintained his power and governed and ruled over his people, and these institutions, from afar, it did look like it came from a position of strength. what we saw 16 months ago in ukraine was a military that seemed incredibly powerful. i remember standing in ukraine and saying it is only a matter of when not i
forces had crossed the border with russia, presumably suggesting they had crossed the border from russia, presumably suggesting they had crossed the borderfrom ukraine. it is reasonable to assume this is where they are going back now. yet again, we are best advised to take anything yevgeny prigozhin says with anything yevgeny prigozhin says with a certain degree of scepticism. michael, to pick on the points there, you want to take all of this with a pinch of salt, the fact he is saying to avoid bloodshed we are are returning our convoys. this is a creature of the kremlin and they been accused of all sorts of brutality. the question is, what kind of deal was brokered for him to say we are pulling back even though we were 200 kilometres away from moscow. that sense messages they were able to get as close to moscow.
the mind games that were going on, that the russians are trying to for us all. with prigozhin and putin, maybe they are in cahoots? i don t think so. maybe i first they were thinking if they created some kind of false overconfidence on the ukrainian side that could produce mistakes, i don t know. putin did tolerated for a while. he can t tolerated for a while. he can t tolerated when prigozhin says he has is own on the columns moving on to moscow. ~ . ., , ., ., moscow. michael, iwill update our audience, because moscow. michael, iwill update our audience, because we moscow. michael, iwill update our audience, because we have - moscow. michael, iwill update our audience, because we have more l audience, because we have more information about how this news came about. the belarus s president has apparently held talks with yevgeny prigozhin during which he agreed to stop his troops and de escalate the situation. this is being reported by