Ukraine war: 'He's got something on Putin' | Belarus emboldened by Wagner presence

three people have died after a fresh wave of attacks overnight in Ukraine two women and a man were killed and nine other people were wounded in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of zaparisia well let's get more now with our military analyst Sean Bell he's here with me hi there Sean so reports are more rocket attacks than overnight so what is the latest on that yes it's uh both sides been trading missile attacks which has been become a bit of a feature of the war Russia claims that they shot down two drones that were heading for Moscow they also claimed that there were 11 Ukraine drones attacking Sebastopol and counts claiming obviously Ukraine have claimed that this Russian missile attacks on zaparita some of the footage we're seeing here from there as you say initially it was two people killed now three a number of engines rising and there's also been more recently a massive drone attack on an oil Depot it Ravine we'll bring more details when we got it the Trump is all of this is a bit of a sideshow because the main effort here is Ukraine trying to take liberate territory with their counter-offensive and a back moot really slow grinding progress nothing really to report there and Coupe dance Gap into the north of luhansi it's actually the Russians that are taking ground we've not been able to verify it but a lot of reports saying they are on the front foot there and the East is aparicha where the main front line is we get regular reports of incremental Ukraine gains but no sign of a breakthrough which is what the ukrainians desperately need a meanwhile Poland reinforcing its border with Belarus what should we read into that part of this is all about lukashenko the head of Belarus who's become emboldened of late largely because he's got the Wagner group of mercenaries in Belarus itself and he's been provoking Poland saying that he's holding them back from attacking penis oil which has enhanced West concern because this is a NATO country Poland with a great risk of potentially escalating now military amethysts don't think Wagner is a threat because it hasn't got any military equipment hasn't got any tanks or or stuff like that but Poland are not going to take any chances and as a result they've put 10 000 extra troops on their border with Belarus 4 000 directly 6 000 in reserve and of course what's alarming about this is balloon recent president is full of alarming rhetoric but it has significant implications at a high time of of tensions and it is every since president lukashengo brokered that deal if you remember for yevgen he goes in to come into Belarus it's almost as if he feels emboldened he's got something on Putin um but there's a grave risk of miscalculation when these sorts of things occur and the offer wasn't just a precaution to go to Belarus but also for Wagner Fighters and a number of them did but there are reports that they're now moving out of Belarus is that right and do we know where they might be headed one of the difficult questions ever since the march on it goes against Moscow was what was Putin going to do with and the whole of these troops were suddenly put in Belarus and there was all sorts of alarm is singing are they going to be used to attack NATO saw but as you say there is reports now five to six hundred of them are being bust out what looks increasingly likely as Wagner was put into Belarus largely to get them out of Russia out of Ukraine while President Putin tried to work out who his friends were who his enemies were and what Earth he was going to do with yevgeny pre goes in some of those Falcon forces have now been assimilated into the Russian mod some of them have been sent out to Africa the remaining ones in Belarus what you do with them well largely they're a mercenary Force they need to be paid who's going to pay them The Afghani pregosity isn't Putin isn't it looks like lukashenko isn't so it now looks likely that a few are going to stay doing military training for Belarus the rest are going to disappear and largely that's just eroded the power base of the evgeny precaution but it's interesting that there's still more questions and answers around this we're still dealing with the repercussions of something that happened nearly two months ago but it goes in on his March abortive coup against uh Putin yeah fascinating Sean thanks very much indeed

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Length: 3min 40sec (220 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 10 2023