we begin with the aftermath of russia's short-lived armed rebellion and growing questions about vladimir putin's absolute grip on power. calm appears to return to moscow this monday after a weekend military rebellion by wagner mercenaries marching on the capital. the uprising came to a sudden end saturday with an 11th hour deal brokered by belarus. since then, the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, has not been seen nor heard. his news service tells cnn he will answer questions when he has what they say is proper communication. there is much which remains unknown about the insurrection, but one thing is clear. the open rebellion is the most profound crisis vladimir putin has faced during his 23-year-long rule, and the u.s. secretary of state says the turmoil may not be over yet. >> it's too soon to tell exactly where this is going to go, and i suspect that this is a moving picture, and we haven't seen the last act yet. but we can say this. first of all, what we've seen is

extraordinary, and i think you've seen cracks emerge that weren't there before. >> experts are warning this rare uprising by wagner group mercenaries could have consequences into the future with so much still uncertain. cnn's matthew chance reports now from moscow. >> wagner! wagner! wagner! >> reporter: for the kremlin, these are some of the most disturbing scenes from a weekend of shocking images. on the streets of a major russian city, rostov-on-don in the south, residents cheered wagner fighters as they withdrew. many russians see them as heroes, not as the traitors the kremlin paints them. and wagner's leader, yevgeny prigozhin, has become a celebrity too. watch his supporters hail down his car just to shake hands. the kremlin says he's now moving to belarus next door, but it's

unclear if this is the last we'll see of him. what is definite, though, is a sense of relief, at least here in the russian capital. it's calm now, but in the mayhem of the weekend, moscow was on high alert. military checkpoints on the outskirts of the city. residents bracing for wagner fighters to enter and for the confrontation that never came. "it was really uneasy yesterday" says andre. "but look now. people are walking in the streets, and it's all good. let's hope it will stay peaceful," he adds. but even here, the sympathy for prigozhin's unprecedented challenge appears to have struck a popular chord. "i think it was an expression of an opinion," says oleg. "an opinion of a powerful person

who wants some justice and clarity." the belief prigozhin should be listened to is widely shared here. but that's not what the kremlin wants to hear. vladimir putin hasn't appeared in public since making his angry pledge on saturday. filmed behind the scenes by state television to punish those responsible for what he called an armed mutiny. the biggest challenge to his authority in 23 years of power. but now that challenge has been made, there are growing concerns about what a defensive president putin, stung by the events of this weekend, will do next to stay in power. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. >> live now to london, cnn's clare sebastian with the very latest. for an event that was so tumultuous and with potentially

serious consequences, it seems astounding how quickly calm has returned to moscow. is that just a facade? do we know what lies beneath? >> reporter: i think an uneasy calm is the best way to describe it, john. this is now something that significantly ramps up the pressure on president putin and perhaps more importantly on the war in ukraine. he now has to prove somehow that the miscalculation that led to him not only having to fight this war for more than 16 months, but then having to defend his own country against an armed rebellion was somehow part of a larger purpose. also the fact that the person who apparently spearheaded this rebellion, yevgeny prigozhin, appears to have pretty much gotten away with it. and the messaging from the kremlin tends to support this. the clip that matthew chance in his piece showed part of on sunday included a clip of a pre-insurrection interview with putin saying that essentially his day starts and ends with the special military operation. they are sort of reprioritizing this, showing that they're getting out front and center on

this. and, you know, the scenes that are still emerging from the insurrection are increasingly humiliating for russia, which apparently brokered this deal to avoid bloodshed, but didn't totally avoid this. take a look at these images that appeared on social media of the wreckage apparently of a russian military helicopter prigozhinen claimed that wagner forces downed that military helicopter. we've had no comment on this from the russian ministry of defense or the kremlin. but this compounding the humiliation. meanwhile, of course, there's been no comment, as you say, from putin. no comment from gerasimov, the head of the armed forces. we are seeing new images this morning emerging from state media showing the defense minister shoigu apparently visiting the zone of the special military operation. they don't say exactly when that happened, but he has not made any public pronouncements either. and i think for the russian people, the focus really is on the next steps. what happens next? i want to read you a clip from an editorial in a daily moscow

newspaper. this really, i think, shows the mood. they say, this is the conclusion they came to in washington, kyiv, warsaw and other similar capitals. you need to put pressure on russia. it works. yevgeny prigozhin, this columnist said, will be sent to belarus, but the problems created by him -- let's be fair, not just him -- will remain and will be, oh, so difficult to solve. so there's a sense in some way of embarrassment the way the world is watching this and a sense that the contract that president putin has had for the last 23 years of the russian people, stability, a chance at prosperity in exchange perhaps for the ever increasing erosion of democratic freedoms has to some extent been broken. that stability has been broken, john. >> clare, thank you. if there is potentially a winner from the turmoil in moscow, it's ukraine and its counteroffensive. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has spoken with close allies, and he says the chaos

has been created by russia's own aggression. >> translator: the longer russian aggression lasts, the more degradation it causes in russia itself. one of the manifestations of this degradation is that russian aggression is gradually returning to its home harbor. in our conversations with the leaders, we have exchanged our assessments of what is happening in russia. we see the situation in the same way and know how to respond. >> meanwhile, on the front lines, ukraine's military claims to have gained some ground around bakhmut during heavy fighting over the weekend. and they say russian efforts to retake territory have failed. cnn's ben wedeman has more now reporting in from the frontline battles in ukraine. >> reporter: after the brief but intense drama in russia, it's back to the war in ukraine. while wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin was on the rampage against his foes in moscow,

officials in kyiv were largely silent. following napoleon's advice never to interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake. briefly, many ukrainians entertained the hope that civil war, chaos in russia, would lead to an early end to the war. but prigozhin's sudden about-face dashed those hopes. sunday ukrainian presidential adviser said in an interview he was hoping for something more concrete, perhaps a civil war in russia. he said he was still confident that will eventually happen. while attention was diverted away from the front, the fighting went on. sunday ukrainian officials claimed their forces had seized a kilometer stretch of trenches near bakhmut. they said they killed, wounded, or captured an entire battalion

though they didn't give exact numbers. it was a limited tactical success. the much anticipated counteroffensive has yet to hit its stride. i'm ben wedeman, cnn, reporting from zaporizhzhia. live again to london, and an adviser to the ukrainian president joins us. timothy, thank you for taking the time to speak with us. >> thank you. >> it's been what, 4 99 days since putin began his war of choice in ukraine and most of those days have gone from bad to worse. as you watch these events unfold over the weekend, just tell me what were your thoughts? >> yes. it is dramatic for ukrainians to see that russia has lost control over its own military forces, and it just underscores again for us that, you know, the

question why. why did russia invade? you know, why did so many people have to die for russia not being able to even, you know, create some kind of semblance of order in their own house? but i think the situation creates opportunity for ukrainian forces and also creates a win-win situation strategically. either putin continues to be challenged and looks weaker, or prigozhin dies. if prigozhin dies, then there will be more infighting within the ranks of military, which will weaken them further. so either way, strategically it's a move forward, or it's a good opening for ukraine. >> i guess one thing here, though, putin did manage to keep control of his security services. he brought this mutiny to an end. but there are expectations now that he'll feel a need to reassert control, to demonstrate he's still in charge. do you agree with that, and will he be able to restore his

reputation as a leader with an iron grip, and how could that impact ukraine? >> yes, absolutely. he will have to show to people in russia and also to military specifically and to law enforcement, to bureaucrats, political elites, that he is in charge because if he's not in charge and the signs are there that he's not in charge, then the raise for the new successor is open. and maybe that raise is under way anyway. he will have to either find a way to crack down in a very hard way on those who sided with prigozhin or who hesitated, or he will have to find a way to play it off as if it were just prigozhin, but the entire military was behind me. but still i think it would be very, very difficult to do. either way t is weakening the ability of russia and russian military to operate effectively because they will be distracted

of this internal control and politics issues. >> do you think it's a matter of when, not if, putin is out of office? >> oh, absolutely. i mean so he is getting old. so he is going to, you know, go one way or another. by the end, you know, of his career, he's going to get weaker. and what we have seen by the prigozhin tantrum or mutiny is that the transfer of power is not going to be democratic. what's interesting is that we have seen that the people of russia and their position, democratic position of russia, had no say on the events over the last 48, 72 hours. so that suggests that the transfer of power from putin to someone else will be violent, or at least it will be done by force. >> and that then raises the question of what happens in russia usually doesn't stay in russia. if there is some kind of power struggle in a nuclear-armed country, again, how will that

affect not just ukraine but, you know, the entire region? >> there are several serious, very grave concerns. first of all, there are nukes, and people usually talk about, you know, the threat of nuclear attack. but there are more mundane but as important concerns. during chaos, some of the warheads might disappear because some countries or some hostile actors would like to get their hands on. so the world has to prepare for that transition of power and monitor those nukes already in the way possible. i'm not an expert on this, but i think that is in some ways possible, and the west and the rest of the world have to be strategic about it. >> part of the deal here that brought this uprising to a sudden end was that prigozhin agreed to go live in belarus in exile. so belarus, which struck this agreement, now has prigozhin, what's left of the wagner fighters who were part of the uprising, if you like, and also

the nuclear warheads. are you surprised at the role that belarus is now playing despite what lukashenko is saying, that they don't want to be part of this? >> yes. it's true that lukashenko wants to survive and not to be involved too much into the russian debacle. what it means, it's hard to say this moment. there are all kinds of theories. one is actually very unpleasant for ukraine, that wagner will gain power there and will be able at least to threaten a second front from the north. the other one is that it's in exile and prigozhin will simply die soon. >> i guess we'll find out in the fullness of time. thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate your time. well, dangerous weather across the united states right now. a deadly heat wave in texas, possible tornado in indiana. we'll have the very latest on the extreme weather. also ahead, the u.s. reaffirms unwavering support for ukraine.

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apartment building under construction was destroyed. there are no reports of serious injuries. oppressive heat has turned deadly in texas. a temperature of 119 degrees fahrenheit or 48 degrees celsius is being blamed for the death of a 31-year-old man and his 14-year-old stepson while hiking in big bend national park. the soaring temperatures are raising concerns about the stability of the power grid in texas. there's no relief in the forecast this week. cities have opened cooling centers. san antonio's mayor says cooling centers are open to help keep the vulnerable safe. >> it's a pretty brutal heat wave we're going through, and it hasn't let up for the last couple of weeks. it's gone into danger territory, so we have launched our beat the heat campaign and making sure that people know the resources that are available if they need to get into a cool place, you know, libraries and community centers, senior centers are all open and encouraging folks obviously to be advised about the signs of heat-related

illness. but this is a very dangerous sort of heat wave, and with the humidity mixed in, there's really not even any relief in the evening periods as well. >> 50 million americans across the south are dealing with oppressive heat, including major cities in texas, where maximum temperatures will reach a feel-like 125 degrees fahrenheit or 51 degrees celsius. >> roughly a dozen states are already under either heat advisories or excessive heat warnings, and in some instances, these are likely going to last for several days. that's because for some of these areas, they don't even peak temperature-wise until tuesday or even wednesday of the upcoming week. take, for example, houston going from 101 for the high on monday up to 103 by wednesday. dallas going from 102 on monday to 107 by the time we get to the middle portion of the upcoming week. and for many of these areas, even though they peak, they really don't drop back down by the end of the week. take austin, for example.

the average high this time of year is 94. we are going to spend every single one of the next seven days with those high temperatures getting into the triple digits. and we're looking at over 35 cities breaking record temperatures at some point this week between monday and friday. some of those communities possibly even having two or three days in a row of record-breaking temperatures. it's also not just the temperature we're concerned about but also when you factor in that humidity, you get what we call the feels-like temperature. and in some of these areas, you're talking extremely high numbers. corpus christi getting that feels-like temperature to 110 on tuesday. dallas looking at a feels-like temperature tuesday of up to 114 degrees. really the only areas that are likely not going to see much of this heat, especially in the eastern half of the country, is going to be places like the midwest, the northeast, and the mid-atlantic. the reason for that is you have a lot of these showers and thunderstorms that will be moving into the area. because of also the potential for some severe storms, especially for cities like new

york, washington, d.c., stretching down through atlanta, the main threats there will be damaging winds and the potential for some large hail as well. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has spoken with close allies over the weekend about the turmoil in russia. that includes u.s. president joe biden, canadian prime minister justin trudeau, and polish president andrzej duda. mr. zelenskyy says there was agreement on what was behind the armed rebellion and how to respond. >> translator: now the russian occupiers are suffering losses, which we need. each of their losses is a long-term strengthening of freedom. we also discussed further strengthening of ukrainian troops, and i think our partners were understanding our needs, long-range needs. i am especially grateful to president biden and the united states for their reliability of patriots. we discussed the strengthening of our artillery and other things.

>> cnn's jeff zeleny has the view from the white house. >> reporter: after spending the weekend talking to western allies, president biden returning to the white house on sunday, not taking questions or commenting on the extraordinary turn of events in russia over the weekend. he did speak with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, saying that the u.s. has unwavering support towards ukraine and its people. the president also spending much of the time over the weekend at camp david talking to western allies from canada, from the uk, from france, from germany, making the case here that all countries really are watching and waiting to see the situation unfold in russia. now, there is no doubt russian president vladimir putin has had a reign for 23 years through four american presidents. but the biden administration this week, president biden faces a new challenge for president biden. they are not trying to be publicly seen being involved in this in any way at all, do not

want be to accused of trying to tip the scales. but it raises concerns about the potential danger for that. so president biden not scheduled to speak about this as the week begins, but he will have an event on monday morning here at the white house. this is certainly now a new foreign policy challenge and certainly a question here on the president's agenda as he begins a new week. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. after what seemed like a deafening silence, china gave public support to russia's government late sunday and in particular, president vladimir putin. notably, beijing waited a day after the armed insurrection was over. here's part of a statement posted on china's foreign ministry website. this is russia's internal affair. as russia's friendly neighbor and comprehensive strategic partner of coordination for the new era, china supports russia in maintaining national stability and achieving development and prosperity.

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welcome back. i'm john vause. you're watching "cnn newsroom." back to our stop story this hour. uncertainty and confusion across russia after a weekend rebellion. the whereabouts of the wagner boss, yevgeny prigozhin, remains unknown. russian president vladimir putin was last seen on state tv saturday delivering an urgent address to the nation on the armed rebellion. he has also not commented publicly on a deal brokered by belarus to end the uprising. but russian state media posted a short behind the scenes clip of putin's address to the nation as well as a four-day-old interview in which he talks about his working day and how he's dealing with the war in ukraine. the wagner group's uprising began in the city of rostov-on-don, and some residents there shared their thoughts. >> translator: it was unexpected

and somehow incomprehensible and stressful, of course. very stressful. >> translator: there are very serious problems in the country, and they need to be solved. people who can no longer tolerate it, they resort to such radical methods as prigozhin. >> translator: how can one, in a situation where we are in a conflict in another country, have an internal war as well? >> meanwhile, there appears to be no clear winners in russia from this rebellion. the head of the wagner group has agreed to exile in belarus to avoid prosecution. more now from cnn's fred pleitgen. >> reporter: so there's still a lot that's unclear about what's going to be in store in the future for the wagner private military company. one of the things, of course, that we've heard from the kremlin is they say the fighters for wagner, because of their military achievements on the

battlefield, will be able to apply to join the russian military. that's something that's been in the cards for a while. there was a decree by the russian defense minister a couple of weeks ago where he said that all of the private military companies needed to have contracts with the russian army if they wanted to operate in the future. now, yevgeny prigozhin or the wagner private military had always said they were not going to do that. that was, of course, also one of the things that escalated the feud between prigozhin and the russian military leadership. but all this is about a lot more than that. the private military company wagner is one thing, but yevgeny prigozhin owns a lot more than that. he has media holdings like, for instance, the internet research agency, which the u.s. says meddled heavily in the 2016 presidential election. prigozhin was indicted for that. what happens to his media empire? then there's always his dealings in the middle east, oil fields in syria, in africa, exploiting things like gold and diamonds, also training local forces there. so there are definitely still a

lot of questions about whether or not yevgeny prigozhin, when he goes to exile in belarus, will retain any sort of control over that or if other solutions will be found by the russian leadership. fred pleitgen, cnn, berlin. >> professor matthew schmidt teaches national security at the university of new haven and joins me now from connecticut. it's good to see you. >> good to see you, john. >> prigozhin military fighters c -- >> clearly prigozhin lost his nerve. he was, as you noted earlier, roughly two hours' drive within the outskirts of moscow where they were starting to prepare defensive positions. this rebellion didn't appear to be generating the kind of support that he had hoped it would. >> so in other words, if you're

going to take vienna, take vienna. is that how you see it? is that the most likely explanation here, cold feet? >> i used to work for the general at fort leavenworth, and i respect him absolutely, but he may not be right. he could be right, but there are other explanations as to why prigozhin may have stopped. we don't exactly know what happened in this deal. we don't know when the phone calls were made. they may have made the phone call, and that's why he stopped. i just think it's really early to draw conclusions on this yet, and i would be wary of anyone who couches this as though they know something, even general petraeus. >> there is a perception out there, a common belief, if you like, in these early days that vladimir putin has been left, you know, seriously weakened by all of this. >> again, i have to posit the opposite possibility, right? in the end, what do we know happened here? he stopped it in 24 hours, right? this guy, prigozhin, his nominal

enemy, is now safely ensconced in a neighboring state in belarus, under surveillance, probably in fear for his life at any moment. and the 25,000-plus mercenaries that were behind prigozhin are now going to be folded into putin's direct command, right? and some of these are the best fighters in ukraine which he now gets to direct. the only thing we don't know is did prigozhin get some sign-off on getting rid of the defense minister and gerasimov. this looks like a putin win. the most important thing is the elites, the oligarchs that everybody keeps waiting to turn on putin. this was their shot, and they didn't take it, john. i think that hope that putin is going to be ousted is really gone now because there's no other insurrection coming anytime soon. >> you say there's no other prigozhin in the wings. >> there's no other prigozhin in the wings, right?

and, look, coup d'etats aren't military-only events. they're political events with military components. and prigozhin provided the military component of this, but he couldn't come through with the political side. he didn't have political support. and the fact that nobody gave him that support in moscow is indicative that putin still has control, control of the security services, and he has the control and the loyalty of at least enough of the elites. >> i want you to listen to the u.s. secretary of state, antony blinken, on how he sees the bigger picture here for vladimir putin and for russia. listen to this. >> 16 months ago, russian forces were on the doorstep of kyiv, ukraine, thinking they were going to take the city in a matter of days, erase the country from the map. now they have to be focused on defending moscow, russia's capital, against mercenaries of putin's own making. so this raises lots of profound questions that will be answered,

i think, in the days and weeks ahead. >> so this, you know, coup d'etat may have been a win for putin in some ways. but overall, this war of choice in ukraine has been the biggest disaster of his presidency and keeps getting worse. how does this now play into presidential elections, which are scheduled for next march? >> you mean in russia? >> yeah. >> just to be clear. >> yeah, in russia. >> yeah. so i don't think it plays much at all. putin has set up a system that leans heavily towards his advantage, and that system will stay in place. and, look, in the west when we talk about this, we are constantly talking about it as though it's a mirror image of our electorate, as though the russian public and what they think matters in the election of their president the way what the american public thinks matters in our elections, and it's

simply not that way, right? second, again with this coup d'etat attempt, if that's what it was, right, there's no indication that the russian population was cheering prigozhin on, right? so i think we need to step back and assess, you know, the facts on the ground that we can see here. this war in ukraine is the worst war that russia has waged, you know, since 1917, right? it's been a disaster for them, and it will continue to be a disaster. i'm sure of that, on the battlefield. but that doesn't mean putin's weak. >> has ukraine been able to take advantage of this, or will they be able to take advantage of this? how do you see it? >> i'm going to have to go into an american football metaphor here unfortunately. it's like if your enemy team fumbles the football. they could fumble it and recover it at the same spot they fumbled, meaning nothing really changes. they could fumble it. your team could recover it and fall on the same spot, meaning you're not really in that much of a different position, right?

you could recover it, run it back for a touchdown, or you could recover it and then fail to convert to points on a drive, right? ukraine has an opportunity here, but it was over very fast, right? and we haven't seen that they've been able to convert on that opportunity. so i don't think it's actually changed the battlefield yet. it may. but at this point i don't see any change right now. >> okay. matthew schmidt. great to have you on. good to hear a different point of view as always. thanks for coming in. >> my pleasure. we'll take a short break. when we come back, we'll have details on a high-level investigation under way by the u.s. coast guard to try to determine what caused the implosion which destroyed the titan submersible. the mulch that finishes the look. and pickcking a color that po. you got this. we got you.

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an investigation has been convened by the u.s. coast guard to determine the cause of the implosion which destroyed the titan submersible and killed all five people on board. cnn's gloria pazmino has details. >> reporter: the marine board of investigation is the highest level of investigation that the u.s. coast guard can conduct regarding any kind of maritime incident. and what it will allow is for the coast guard to leverage all of its resources, including working with international partners.

now, this is a multi-step process, and right now they are in the first phase, which is to gather evidence. they've had the odysseus 6,000 out at the bottom of the ocean, looking for pieces of the vessel, looking to recover more pieces of evidence. once that's completed, they will hold a public hearing, collect more testimony and more evidence, and then they will continue this investigation. i want you to listen from public officials talking about what's next in the process. >> during the course of the mbi, the board will first and primarily work to determine the cause of this marine casualty and the five associated deaths. the mbi, however, is also responsible for accountability aspects of the incident, and it can make recommendations to the proper authorities to pursue civil or criminal sanctions as necessary. >> reporter: now, any kind of subsequent enforcement will have to be done after a separate

investigation. and just another important note here is that the marine board of investigation is working with the u.s., the uk, and france, and that of course reflects the nationalities of the five people who were on board of the vessel. so you can see the sort of multinational effort to try and bring some closure to these families. in fact, the rear admiral of the coast guard mentioned he had visited st. john's, where we are right now, to meet with some of the family members that arrived back to port yesterday. now, after this investigation is concluded, they will submit a report, and the idea here is to understand what happened but also to make sure that safety protocols for deep sea submersible expeditions are improved so that nothing like this happens again. reporting in newfoundland, gloria pazmino, cnn. the u.s. supreme court is set to hand down several key decisions this week as it enters the final stretch of its term.

some of the big cases include student debt relief, affirmative action, and lgbt+ rights. the verdicts are expected to reveal how far to the right the conservative majority now leans. >> i do think you're going to see the six republican-appointed justices likely ruling in a way that the biden administration and other democrats are going to criticize on largely or completely ending the use of affirmative action in higher education, on privileging claims of religious freedom to gain exemption from equal treatment laws for lgbtq individuals, and potentially also ending biden's student loan forgiveness program. you know, what these rulings, i think, above all are going to demonstrate is that if we think in the broadest sense of the competition between the republican and democratic coalitions to really decide the direction of the country, these very antithetical coalitions at

this point, the supreme court majority is now, i believe, the biggest asset, the most powerful weapon on the board for the republican coalition. and we're going to see that again in all likelihood this week. >> that was one political analyst, ron brownstein. the ruling conservative party in greece is celebrating victory in sunday's election and a second four-year term. with almost all the votes counted, the new democracy party fell short of an outright majority. the leftists hold about 17%. the prime minister who has guided greece out of a severe debt crisis, found more of the same. >> translator: i now feel a heavier duty to serve the country with all my strength. i never promised miracles, but i assure you that i will remain

faithful to my national duty with a plan, with dedication, and above all, with hard work. >> notably, syriza polled worst sunday than the first round last month. sarah ferguson, the duchess of york, has united gone surgery for breast cancer. the uk press association reports her operation was successful. she's now recovering with family in windsor. a spokesman for the duchess said she's receiving the best medical care. her prognosis is good. security forces are gearing up as the hajj gets under way in saudi arabia, and it could be one for the record books. more than 2 million muslims from around the world are expected to take part this year, and the heat will also be a factor here with temperatures nearing 45 degrees celsius. that's around 110 fahrenheit. saudi authorities have placed thousands of paramedics on standby. health workers will be around to treat cases of heatstroke, dehydration, exhaustion. the hajj is one of the five pillars of islam. muslims undertake it at least

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>> yevgeny prigozhin had plenty to say about russian military leaders but now silent after kremlin said he september a deal to avoid prosecution for his armed military rebellion marching on moscow. the uprising seemed to end quickly as it began with a deal by belarus. russian defense ministry says he has visiting the troops fighting in ukraine. a former top u.s. intelligence official says vladimir putin's reputation and authority tarnished after the armed insur insurrection. >> it's clearly damaged i think

it's early to do that but clearly his stature his prestige his image is diminished internationally and domesticly. which is one of the reasons why i don't think he is going to let yevgeny prigozhin run around free and easy. >> he says president putin may choose to exert control over the wagner group and its activities after this insurrection. yevgeny prigozhins current whereabouts unknown. more on the man once known as putin's chef. >> the man vaped screaming at top military officials for be

trying, wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin may have won over vladimir putin for displaying those trace rather than if fact they hail from spooegs. >> i think he has personality traits that putin see in himself. >> his rise is a tale of ambition the he served time in prison in the final stages of the soto union for petty crimes. when he got out he started a hotdog stand and parlayed that into restaurants. yevgeny prigozhin scored lucrative government contracts earning the nickname putin's chef into being the guy who runs the kremlin food service might sound not important but to people who are afraid of being poisoned that's a position of trust. >> yevgeny prigozhined used putin's trust to make a bold move around 2014 founding wagner as a paramilitary group then

operating mostly in the shadows. >> what's he was involved syria when russian didn't want to use its own troops one russia wants to outsource to contractors it relies on wagner the most prominent of these institutions. >> cnn has tracked wagner mercenaries in the central african republic and other countries. >> yevgeny prigozhin has 25,000 men and battle hardened. >> and brutal. human rights groups say wagner which has recruited murderers to fight has committed human rights abuses including allegedly torturing and murdering a syrian victim with a sledgehammer.

>> the videos of yevgeny prigozhin and his people using sledge hammers to maim and kill people, so he understands the value, the propaganda value of coming across as a brutal almost uncivilized person because that's another kind of power that i think the russian population certainly at least fears and some cases respects. >> one analyst says no matter how this turns out the veriliest yevgeny prigozhin has damaged vladimir putin by openly telling the russian people that the ukraine war was started under fraudulent circumstances. brian todd cnn washington. >> and finally from the wnba phoenix mercury announce's brittney griner will start in vegas. this comes just six months after griner was released from russia as part after prison swap.

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