leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private jet ha
are not in belarus. he indicated that they went back to their camps in russian occupied eastern ukraine. mr lukashenko also said that he is going to be discussing the situation with wagner with vladimir putin in the nearest future. although the kremlin hasn t given any date for that discussion, so what is happening, what is actually going on. who knows? vitaly the rush editor from bbc monitoring is not entirely convinced that prigozhin was ever in belarus. well, all we have in terms of pointers to him being there are the statements made by alexander lukashenko about ten days ago when he said that, yes, it prigozhin is
lukashenko claims that he has some sort of right to take decisions over end of s nuclear weapons, should we expect a sort of meltdown of the relations between russia and belarus over nuclear weapons when they are already on belarusian soil? or should we expect some sort ofjoint action between the two free claims he is in charge but in fact he is acting on behalf of russia? the viewers will know that it is no joking matter, it is different if you sent tanks are even fighterjets to another country, that is very different from letting another country host your nuclear weapons when it is not clear who decides about the use of those nuclear weapons. and lukashenko is an erratic man, he is also a man who
have? the difficult thing with the russians is have? the difficult thing with the russians is whether have? the difficult thing with the russians is whether to have? the difficult thing with the russians is whether to suspect . have? the difficult thing with the i russians is whether to suspect that they are incompetent or whether to suspect that they are deliberately targeting civilian buildings. it can t be both at the same time, or rather it is either incompetence or deliberate malice. but it is now a regular pattern that civilian buildings, whether it be apartment buildings, whether it be apartment buildings or cafe is, get hit. you would think that the fighting force thatis would think that the fighting force that is supposed to be the second best in the world would be able to send its missiles in the direction of the intended target, or otherwise it really is the case that they did intend to kill civilians. intend to kill civilians. we ve talked about intend to kill civi
landed in minsk shortly after the rebellion, but not much since. and today, at a press conference in minsk, mr lukashenko said the question of whether the wagner units would relocate to belarus was still in the balance, and would depend on the decisions taken by moscow and by wagner. as for prigozhin, he is in st petersburg. he may have gone to moscow this morning or somewhere else. he is not on the territory of belarus. our russia editor steve rosenberg was at that news conference. well, less than two weeks ago, we were told that alexander lukashenko, the leader of belarus, had brokered a deal under which the wagner mutiny would end and yevgeny progozhin would move from russia to belarus, and any wagner fighters who wanted tojoin him in belarus could. today, mr lukashenko told us that actually, yevgeny progozhin is not in belarus, he was in st petersburg and he may be in moscow today. and, the wagnerfighters