You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday, the 28th of June.

Belarus, as it'll keep a close eye on the Vagna Bosia of Guinea-Bregoschen,

who flew there after ending his brief mutiny in Russia.

At least four people have died in a Russian missile strike on a city centre in Ukraine.

And India's Prime Minister calls for a single legal code

ending the separate system for the Muslim minority.

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The Man who apparently broke her to deal to avert a civil war

between the Russian military and Vagna mercenaries on Saturday has been explaining how he did it.

The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, said he first urged the Russian leader

not to kill the Vagna Bosia of Guinea-Bregoschen.

I said to Putin, we could waste him no problem, but don't do this.

Then, in an expletive-filled phone call, he says he persuaded Mr. Bregoschen to call off his advance towards Moscow,

saying the Russian leader would never give in to his demands to abandon his defence minister and army chief.

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