apparent deal. most of what we understand about this, the bear outlines, we have only from the kremlin spokesman last night and from lukashenko s press office. so really it is stunning to see like shen lukashenko kind of muscle his way back on stage here at a moment when russian leadership was almoststrophically frozen. so it will be hard to soay wher it goes from here. belarus itself has faced protests that threaten lukashenko s hold on power. so the issue is far from resolved a outon all fronts the. if people see prigozhin as a threat to putin, he certainly will be a threat to lukashenko. smaller country, weaker leader.
i saw them at the beginning where they were going to places like syria and their forces back then were pretty much doing base protection for the russian military that was on the ground in syria. but from there, things really did evolve. they started getting involved in the oil business in syria and then things like gold and diamonds in african countries. but it wasn t really until the war in ukraine that wagner turned into pretty much a full-on army with really heavy weapons. if you look at the battle in bakhmut for instance, some of the firepower unleashed there by the artillery, by the tanks that wagner had in its possession, that certainly seemed to be a very professional army and now prigozhin sealed to be at the he seemed to be at the height of the power but it appears he s gone one step too far. earlier kim brunhuber spoke
prigozhin is pretty widely reviled and feared among the russian elite even if a lot of what he is saying as we saw with the reception he got on the street last night seems to strike a chord with only some people in russia. and this is a way for both sides to save face and indeed their lives. but i don t think we ve seen the last of prigozhin. i don t see him sitting at a farm on belarus grows potatoes the rest of his life. i think you are probably right there. but more immediate concern for the rest of the world, expecting a financial impact as the markets open on money because russia thousanow looks weaker, look likes weaker? i think probably not because russia is cut off from most global markets by the sanctions. one area where there could have been impact is exports of food
president putin s bidding, the military leadership in the country that have been leading the war in ukraine, they are deeply damaged by yevgeny prigozhin who for months publicly embarrassed them, publicly lamb basted them, and w president putin turning to lukashenko rather than his own russian military leaders to deal with the problem that is prigozhin. where is the outcome there. how do they continue to stand by president putin who being looks weaker and who has allowed them to be again publicly embarrassed in this way. so many questions, we cannot begin to speculate the thinking of president putin, but this is the greatest challenge he s faced in his rule. it has pierced the strong man ima ima image and he still has a threat of prigozhin waiting in the
to move to belarus. although the immediate crisis has been averted, one analyst told us earlier that the danger to the russian president is far from over. robert english from the university of southern california says prigozhin doesn t have to be inside russia to pose a formidable threat. he lost. he stood down. putin won. but prigozhin is sort of like a caesar in exile, someone who can still threaten from abroad, someone who has enormous credibility as a military leader, who has loyal troops although he is separated from them for now. and someone whose anti-construction, anti-reelite his anger at the oligarchs in moscow resonates. so he could be a future threat as well. prigozhin went from being known as putin s chef to serving up an armed revolt.