to victory with up to 44 percent of the vote, across ukraine, there s been intense speculation about how events in russia will affect the counteroffensive currently under way. the bbc s mayenijones is in kyiv. like millions of people around the world, ukrainians followed this weekend s events in russia closely. for a brief moment it seemed like president putin s iron grip on russian politics might be coming to an end, but as many people here in kyiv wake up on sunday morning, they still don t know what to make of it all. translation: we hoped things would advance, . that prigozhin will change his mind and join the ukrainians. but money does miracles. he was obviously paid off. he has basically surrendered. translation: for me, both prigozhin and putin are war criminals. they bomb peaceful cities while people are sleeping. for example, yesterday everyone was talking about prigozhin when ukraine was hit by missiles. i m not interested in him. he is a criminal. translation: ev
the last day or so has seen an extraordinary turn of events in russia. the russian president vladimir putin has survived an immediate threat to his power after the leader of the wagner mercenary group agreed to end his mutiny against the russian army. yevgeny prigozhin called off his wagner troops march to moscow late saturday night after negotiations with putin s ally and belarus leader alexander lukashenko. he also agreed to leave russia for belarus, and the kremlin has said it will not pursue punishment against him or wagnerfighters. but there are many questions unanswered about what s happened. to help unpack some of these i m joined now by a panel of experts. joining me live are vitaly shevchenko, who is from bbc monitoring, jade mcglynn is a researcher at the war studies department at king 5 college london. she s also the author of memory makers: the politics of the past in russia and russia 5 war. she joins us from oxfordshire. justin crump is a military veteran and
this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program president biden finished a round of meetings with world leaders in japan as the debt ceiling drama continues back home in washington. we ll talk about all that plus ukraine s coming counter offensive and much more with the smart panel just back from kyiv. also, pakistan is on edge after its former prime minister imran khan was arrested and released last week. now he fears for his life, and he will join me for his side of the story. but first, here s my take. many of us had high hopes f turkey s general election believing that a flat-out victory for the opposition could mark a break with the worldwide trend toward in-liberal democracy, but perhaps we were all misguided and seduced by the lure of free elections and trusting ultimately in the will of the people. in fact, what happened in turkey
biden just finished a important round of meetings with world leaders in japan as the debt ceiling dromma continues back home in washington. we ll talk about all of that and plus ukraine s counter offensive and more much with a smart panel just back from kyiv. also, pakistan is on edge after its former prime minister khan was arrested and released last week. now he fears for his life and he will join me for his side of the story. but first here is my take. many of us had high hopes for turkey s recent general election, believing that a flat out victory for the opposition could make a break with the worldwide trend tordil liberal democracy. but perhaps we were misguided, with free elections and trusting in the will of the people. in fact, what happened in turkey last week highlights the latest and most disturbing trend in the rise of ill liberal democracy. the results last weekend were a victory all the same. he did better than the polls predicted and came out well ahead of
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