The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
Indonesian president: I've delivered Zelensky's message to Putin.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo says he has delivered a message from Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Widodo met the Ukrainian president on a visit to Kyiv yesterday and has been in Moscow today for a meeting with Putin.
"I conveyed President Zelensky's message to President Putin," Widodo said after the Moscow talks.
He did not reveal what the message said but added he's expressed his "readiness" to help start communication between the two leaders.
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is facing a coup from his closest allies who believe he has already "lost" the war against Ukraine.
Investigative journalist Christo Grozev suggests Putin is losing his grip on power amid resistance from Ukraine and reports of the Russian leader suffering ill health.
And he believes the despot's top cronies are unlikely to obey Putin’s commands to launch nuclear weapons.
Speaking to Radio Liberty, Grozev said: "I think that it is the informed elite within the security forces who understand that the war is lost."
Grozev also warned Putin’s inner circle understand the president would need a full mass mobilisation to win the war - but hardliners may pressure for use of nuclear or chemical weapons.
He continued: "And this refusal will be the trigger, most likely, a coup d’état, because after the refusal to comply with the order of the king, everything will go down very quickly,’ he added.
"If Putin decides to give an order to use nuclear weapons, he must be sure that everyone along the chain will carry out this order."