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telling russians in an address that it appears to have been recorded before this weekend s rebellion, that he remains confident in his plans and ukraine. tomorrow has been declared a non-working day in moscow. but banks and russia s stock exchange will be operating as normal. outside of russia s borders, including in the u.s., putin s grip on power appears to be weekend, if not eroding. he s been very strong for three decades. this is the first time the veneer of instability, he just seems to be the strongman. now he is viewed as weak. this moment of weakness for putin, whether temporary or more permanent, may present a moment of opportunity for ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and his military as they continue a counteroffensive against russia. britain s former army chief told sky news, mutiny is a moment of opportunity for ukraine. in washington, maine while, the white house says president biden reaffirmed his support for ukraine in a call with president ze ....
The side of rooting for a spot like that. let s support the policy. and let s keep ukraine strong. putin will settle the way he settled with prigozhin. evelyn, what do you think of how this plays in washington among the politicians who have been bickering about policy and whether or not the ukraine strategy has been working? you ve had members of the republican party. marjorie taylor greene was questioning whether the u.s. had a hand in. this tweeting about i m sure hoping the u.s. was not behind. this you had really prominent voices in republican circles over past several years effectively praising vladimir putin saying that he was a strongman. someone s gone so far to say that they hope he wins in ukraine. and, now we are seeing what has happened in the past 24 hours. i m wondering politically speaking, does it present an opportunity here for this administration as we go into election season? i think i would associate myself with economists that ....
Extraordinary but the fact that this is at the least an added distraction for putin and for russia it is to the advantage of ukraine. it continues to move forward the counteroffensive. these are early days, they haven t had what they need to be successful. evelyn, if in fact, to the secretary s point, maybe it is too soon to tell, if in fact the battle to control wagner group which is what some speculated, the core, this the russian ministry of defense sergei shoigu and others wanted to bring wagner under their control, if they are able to remove prigozhin now that he s in belarus and out of control the debris and as we saw from that announcement, does that effectively mean that the wagner group can not operate the way that prigozhin wanted it to. it is to say to what extent was the wagner group shaped by the personality of prigozhin as opposed to what the russians wanted it to do? ....
Russia s overall strategies in places like syria, africa, and ukraine? yes, i think evelyn touched on it. the difference between what was going on in ukraine and the rest of the world. we all know wagner from those far off places long before this ukraine more. those of us who covered the counter terrorism efforts across the i was thinking in the break, where wagner still exists are places where frankly the united states doesn t. are barely. does the west doesn t, or barely does. in places like syria and across africa. so, because of the west decision-making to pick and choose where it s the intervention. we see wagner fill the gaps. all the reasons, political or blood diamond. for the russian forces from the beginning to when it was clear that it was not a three-day invasion to take all of ukraine, ....
Or, is it still an open question, it is a benefit to link a shank oh. i visited in 2013, 2014. the capital of belarus. met with fellow actions there. it was led by lukashenko at the time. as it is today. there was a lot less open dissent. what lukashenko was very clear about, his people were very clear about it, belarus did not want to be completely absorbed by russia. so, having someone like prigozhin under his control, it might give him a little bit of leverage a vis-à-vis putin. can evelyn, can vladimir putin reestablish authority and russia, if so how does, that look like? he has not lost authority, the fact that he has been publicly challenged certainly people will see that there is a change in his arm or. what we have seen, that he does not have absolute authority. people can challenge him publicly. ....