{"id":88343,"date":"2023-07-06T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/nuclear-weapons-and-wagner-in-belarus-a-threat-to-ukraine-and-nato-to-the-point\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:01:18","slug":"nuclear-weapons-and-wagner-in-belarus-a-threat-to-ukraine-and-nato-to-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/nuclear-weapons-and-wagner-in-belarus-a-threat-to-ukraine-and-nato-to-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear weapons and Wagner in Belarus: A threat to Ukraine and NATO? | To the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/TyTMQsr7TAs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Nuclear weapons and Wagner in Belarus: A threat to Ukraine and NATO? | To the Point\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TyTMQsr7TAs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Could Russia\u2019s disarray mean gain for Ukraine? Although its counteroffensive has made slow progress, morale rose following the failed march on Moscow by the Wagner group, whose brutal tactics have spilled much Ukrainian blood. The longer-term fate of Wagner\u2019s mercenaries could well be decided in neighboring Belarus, where the Group\u2019s leader and thousands of its forces appear to have set up camp. That\u2019s not the only threat Belarus is housing: to the consternation of eastern European NATO Members, Russia is also deploying tactical nuclear weapons there \u2013 with explicit approval from Belarus\u2019 autocratic leader Alexander Lukaschenko. So we\u2019re asking: Nuclear Weapons and Wagner in Belarus: A threat to Ukraine and NATO?<\/p>\n<p> Our guests:<br \/>\nCarlo Masala, Military expert and Professor of International Politics at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and Member of the NATO Defence College<br \/>\nMaryna Rakhlei, German Marshall Fund<br \/>\nMaxim Samorukov, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center<\/p>\n<p>Chapters<br \/>\n00:00 Ukraine is only at the beginning of its counter-offensive<br \/>\n03:20 It is too early to say the counter-offensive has failed<br \/>\n05:40 Lukashenko is back on the international stage<br \/>\n06:30 The role of Yevgeny Prigozhin<br \/>\n09:00 Is Wagner preparing to open a second front in Ukraine?<br \/>\n10:00 Wagner lost access to money and weapons<br \/>\n10:35 Prigozhin\u2019s approval rates in Russia<br \/>\n11:40 Militias in Russia are financed by the state<br \/>\n12:20 Will Wagner be renamed?<br \/>\n14:30 Is Belarus a vassal state of Russia?<br \/>\n17:00 Nuclear weapons in Belarus<br \/>\n19:50 A NATO membership for Ukraine is not on the table<br \/>\n22:10 Lukashenko\u2019s claim &#8211; a stronger NATO eastern front threatens global security?<br \/>\n24:59 The biggest danger Lukashenko poses is to his own people<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<br \/>\nFollow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTwitch: https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/dwnews_hangout<br \/>\nF\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<br \/>\n#ToThePoint #Ukraine #Belarus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could Russia\u2019s disarray mean gain for Ukraine? Although its counteroffensive has made slow progress, morale rose following the failed march on Moscow by the Wagner group, whose brutal tactics have spilled much Ukrainian blood. The longer-term fate of Wagner\u2019s mercenaries could well be decided in neighboring Belarus, where the Group\u2019s leader and thousands of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[128880,131702,129059],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-88343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-could","tag-disarray","tag-russias"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nuclear weapons and Wagner in Belarus: A threat to Ukraine and NATO? | To the Point | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Nuclear weapons and Wagner in Belarus: A threat to Ukraine and NATO? | To the Point for free, here on News ISC. 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