jon: chaos and questions in russia as yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the wagner groups, takes his mercenary army toward moscow. he stopped about 120 miles short, apparently after a deal has been arranged with vladimir putin, but what does it mean for russia and for putin? lots of questions to be answered tonight. we'll get into with them on "the fox report." ♪ ♪

jon: it is perhaps the most serious challenge to the vladimir putin's authority, although at this moment it appears the challenge has edged. yevgeny prigozhin has turned his forces around and is said to be heading back to belarus. let's check in with our greg palkot who's covering the story from that part of the world. greg. >> reporter: jon, it looks like we're back on the brink in russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv, but it also looks like a lot of damage was done. it was the biggest risk to russian president vladimir putin's more than two decades of rule, attempted coup, an armed uprising. the man responsible, evgeni pregoes telephone, complaining friday about the war, then pulling his fighters out of ukraine and into the russian city of rostov-on-don with where, with little trouble, they took over the place. and, yes, prigozhin sent forces towards moscow, within 120

miles, the kremlin bracing for an attack, vladimir putin branding the actions treason. it took belarus president lukashenko speaking with prigozhin to change things. thing wagner chief agreeing the pull his forces back in exchange for guaranteed security. later confirming he'd ordered his fighters to return to field camps in ukraine including those holed up in that russian city. jon, overall it looks like a loss for the mercenary head though charges against him are not going to be pursued. the kremlin also said there'd be no changes in the russian military and and, yes, they sent him over to belarus. but also an apparent loss for putin. think about it, fighters running rampant for about 48 hours across the country. maybe the winner, the ukrainian military announcing tonight new moves here across the front line against a russian-occupied forces, taking advantage of the confusion. back to you. jon: confusion is a good word

for it. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot, thank you. so as the wagner group stands down from its march on moscow, the white house is monitoring russia closely. lucas tomlinson live with reaction from the biden administration. >> reporter: that's right, jon. as that mercenary army was marching on moscow, coming within 12 the 0 miles of the city limits before that dramatic about face, president biden was hitting the phones, calling key natoal allies if germany, france and britain. and his top defense chief and senior military leader also hitting the phones calling their nato counterparts. in fact, general milley had to cancel a trip to israel and jordan. he was supposed the depart tomorrow. that trip has been scrapped to monitor the situation on the ground. also the president's national security adviser, jake sullivan, he was supposed to e depart for denmark. he is now in camp david with the president, the president departing a short time ago.

he did not peek to the press, though it's very clear that president biden and other european leaders don't want to put a face on this conflict. they have put out statements, of course, and they're all talking to each other right now. now, we did hear earlier from former cia station chief in moscow dan hoffman. this is what he has to say about the events today. >> i think that this standoff is going to carry on. i think that prigozhin has made himself putin's enemy, and that's not going to the change. there are other long-term consequences certainly to the fighting force, the russians have to be concerned about this mutiny from prigozhin and the impact on russia's army and the capacity that they might or might not have to carry on waging war against ukraine. >> reporter: president biden is supposed to attend a long-planned nato summit next month in lithuania and, of course, many people think there's a or porous u.s. southern border, many people looking at russia and saying how did this mercenary army cross over from ukraine and take a

city of one million people and then do this march on moscow virtual virtually unopposed. you saw those images earlier, soldiers standing around, milling, some buying lattes, carrying their weapons at low carry just, you know, chaotic day today in russia. but, of course, the biggest concern here at the white house, the pentagon and at hangly are russia's nuclear -- langley are russia's nuclear force ifs, the largest in the world. jon? is. jon: lucas tomlinson at the white house with reaction, thanks. so the head of the wagner group may be calling off his forces, but their rebellion posed the first major challenge to putin's two-plus decades in power. let's bring in william taylor, former u.s. ambassador to yaron. to the ukraine. ambassador taylor, simple question, what do you think is going on there? >> jon, a great question. you know, clearly there's a challenge to putin. putin thought he was in charge, turns out he's not in charge.

if precomposen hate out the problem for putin, prigozhin made it very clear that the decision by president putin to invade ukraine back last year was a mistake. there was no rationale for it. this is prigozhin saying this. he's been on the front lines fighting, and he pointed out to president putin that there was no reason, that there was no threat from ukraine that justified an invasion. there was no danger to russia. there was no threat to russian people living in ukraine. that was all a myth. and prigozhin pointed this out, so i think that that's right. i think you all have made the point that putin comes out much weakened by this. jon: but prigozhin has always been an ally of putin. you don't get rich in russia, as rich as he is, without having the ear of, you know, the supreme leader. so all of a sudden, you know, this has been boiling up, i

suppose, given the fact that he was accusing the russian military of withholding ammunition are the his troops and so forth. but now all of a sudden for him to chang putin in this way -- challenge putin in this way seems very remarkable. >> i agree, very remarkable. and it's not just a challenge. i mean, there were, there were gunfights. there were soldiers killed probably upon on o -- on both sides, wagner's side and the ministry of defense killed in this conflict in the last day or so. a couple of aircraft shot down by the wagner troops. so this is not just a dispute. this was actual conflict. and you're right, prigozhin did have the support of putin over the time. however, he clearly doesn't now. they're being exiled to belarus. jon, we're probably going to the hear more about this deal. jon: and is what about the participation of alexander lukashenko, the president of belarus? he supposedly brokered some kind of a, some kind of a peace deal.

he was supposedly on the phone with prigozhin as he was marching on moscow, and that's where prigozhin is supposedly headed now. what do you make of that? >> you're exactly right. that's a very good question. so it is not at all -- so lukashenko, the president of belarus, has virtually no credibility neither in his country, nor in russia for that matter. jon: right. >> so for him to be the negotiators -- negotiator, and that's another reason i think we haven't heard the last of this deal. we've only heard about lukashenko's rule from the belarusian press. so it's the not entirely clear what role he actually played. and clearly, it was putin trying to get out of the boned that he was in that prigozhin -- the bind that he was in, that prigozhin had put him in. jon: putin went on television fairly soon after this mutiny, if that's what i you want to call it -- that's what he called

it -- after it began, and he doesn't normally do that. he doesn't normally go on television and talk to his people unless he knows that everything is button thed up and urn control. that seems to be a sign of his concern here, maybe his desperation. >> i think he was very concerned. i think he was very concerned. when he saw those troops, that long convoy of armored forces coming up the m-4 from the south toward moscow, he was worried. he probably left moscow, jon. he probably left moscow, which is an interesting contrast when president putin and president zelenskyy can. you remember when there was a long convoy and the russian troops got right to the outskirts of kyiv in the beginning of in this invasion, the ill-fated invasion is, unjustified invasion, that zelenskyy staided. jon: right. >> zelenskyy stayed and putin apparently left. jon: there is some talk that

prigozhin was making demands, that he wanted sergei show guy out as the leader of the army, and he wanted the defense minister sacked. but that, apparently, has not happened. >> apparently not. prigozhin for a long time has been criticizing harshly shoigu, the defense minister, and gerasimov, the chairman of the joint chiefs. and so for me ghosn to get nothing out of -- prigozhin to get nothing out of this negotiation with, again, lukashenko who doesn't have much authority anyway, this deal doesn't make sense. it doesn't make sense. jon: it will be fascinating to see what happens over the next 24-48 hours. ambassador william taylor, thanks for your expertise. >> thank you, jon. jon: so where do things stand between the wagner group and putin's forces now? retired army lieutenant colonel if chuck devore acted as an

intel officer specializing in russian tactics for 24 years. he joins me now. supposedly they have buried the hatchet. supposedly prigozhin is just going to talk his forces back boo ukraine or perhaps belarus, and everything's going to be hunky dory. do you believe that? >> no, i don't, jon. i don't at all. look, agreements in russia have a very short is half-life. written agreements slightly more than verbal agreements. both men, both prigozhin and vladimir putin, need to be watching their backs right now. this has not been good for russia, it's not been good for putin's kleptocracy. this weakens him in the eyes of russians and in the eyes of the world especially in places like the people's republic of china. this is it is not a good outcome for russia. they've had a large scale, armed revolt. and in ukraine, this has implications for russians, russia's occupation of ukraine as well. you're going to see significant

disruption of command is and control channels, a lot of distrust between higher and lower echelons, you're going to see lo to gistics disrupted -- logistics disrupted for several days. this will allow the ukrainians, probably, to imprey their prospects with then ongoing counteroffensive by which, by the way, they have not committed their main force in that effort. jon: vladimir putin was not a military leader ever. he was an fsb or a gru, i guess they called it at time. he was a spy. does this show his weakness, i guess, his weak spot in trying to the command a military and, you know, maintain this special military operation as he calls it? >> yeah. so i think the big challenge with the type of regime that you see in russia right now is that it's very difficult to develop a professionalized military because what what ends up

happening is everyone's trying to make a buck. everyone's looking out for themselves. and if you end up with a general officer who's competent and starts to win battles, they become a threat to people like vladimir putin who, as you pointed out, does not have military experience. he was, in fact, a spy for the kgb. and so as a result, he's surrounded himself with individuals who are not a threat to him and, by and large, are not particularly adept at military operations. and you saw this with the invasion of ukraine last year when they invaded while it was still muddy. you had a very mild winter, and as a result, they were unable to logistically sustain their initial assault. they were very overambitious this their expectations to topple the regime in cay, and they failed. and as a result of the failure, they've now been in this terrible slug fest with ukraine for longer than they ever anticipated. jon: sergei show i guy, the army

leader, he's obviously putin's loyalist. he, too, did not have a great deal of military experience, isn't that correct? would you expect that he does survive this, this attempt, i guess, at a coup by prigozhin? >> yeah, this is the big question, right? because prigozhin definitely laid down the marker. not only did he want the defense minister gone, but he also wanted the chief of the general staff gone as well. and so far, perhaps to the save face, the kremlin is saying that there was no deal, that neither men are going anywhere. now, let's see what happens in the next 24-48 hours. every day a that goes by is another day that you may see people somehow tragically falling out of high windows, out of apartment buildings or maybe shooting themselves in the head several times. this is a very violent and, right now, a very chaotic and unstable regime. and we've seen the proof of that

in a mercenary force managing to very quickly drive north to the very outskirts of moscow and and in the be stopped -- and not be stopped because all of the major military assets that russia possesses right now are commit to the fight9 in ukraine. so you had a small and lightly armored mercenary force that managed to batter its way through a good portion of russia in the last 24 hours. finish. jon: yevgeny prigozhin said publicly that the invasion of ukraine was a mistake, but he also said that putin was lied to by his military leaders. that seemed to be an out out for putin. it seemed to be an offering of an out for putin. but putin is e maining loyal to those two men at least for now. enter right. so people around putin were telling putin what putin wanted to hear. putin has developed this entire narrative, this kind of mythology about ukraine, that

it's not a real country, that it's never really been separate from russia, that they're really just one people. and anyone around putin knew that that was what putin wanted to hear. and so all prigozhin was saying was the truth about this particular if matter. and, by the way, let's not be mistaken, both prigozhin and putin are blood thirty and have a lot of blood on their hands, both men do. and just because in this case one man was telling the truth about the operation in ukraine does not somehow imbue him with any angelic features. that said, a lot of what prigozhin said did get out to the general russian public, and i can't imagine that it helps the morale of the russian conscripts fighting ukrainians on ukrainian soil against an army that, frankly, has far better morale and training than russians do at the moment. so i think that this will have ram by occasions, positive ramifications for ukraine in its gallon ongoing counteroffensive,

and certainly it did help. jon: it's going to be fascinating to see which of those two men, prigozhin or putin, is still standing in a month. >> it will. jon: yeah. lieutenant colonel chuck devore, thanks very much. >> thank you. scrp jon a lot more on our top story ahead. the wagner group's rebellious march on moscow now over almost as quickly as it began. we'll have the latest on the situation there just ahead. ♪nt t ♪ new dr. scholl's prevent pain insoles are the only ones clinically proven to prevent pain from muscle-induced joint stiffness and strain. so you can stay pain free. mamá, growing up... you were so good to me.

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jon: back now to our top story, the wagner mercenary group's rebellion against russia for whom it's been fighting in ukraine. that revolt and its march toward moscow -- pardon me -- over for now as the kremlin now says the group's leader will move to belarus to the avoid prosecution for what vladimir putin earlier today called treason. that deal reportedly broker brokered by the president of belarus. let's bring in the president of iris inif dependent research and national security and military analyst dr. rebecca grant. so much mystery over the last 36 hours about what's been going on the in russia. sum it up to say this cannot be good for vladimir putin. isn't that right? >> oh, this is not good for vladimir putin. you know, stepping back a minute, it looks to me like prigozhin took a big gamble, and he lost. he's not going to be in the

military contractor business in the same way. but he's made his point and that is to show the terrible price of this war in russia, the shock of getting mercenary forces heading up the freeway towards moscow, and he has shown that putin has him really in a tight spot and is going to have to be rethinking how putin holds control of russia and, of course, what he does about ukraine. prigozhin has made his point. jon: but it would seem that prigozhin probably doesn't have a very long life expectancy at this point given that he mounted what putin referred to as a mutiny. >> yes, and he has been screaming about the bad russian strategy for months. u.s. intelligence has watched this, and prigozhin has been in a big feud with other russian generals and defense ministry officials. i think this was his gamble to

try to make putin do something, and prigozhin lost, no kidding. i would not want to be him. i wouldn't want to go into exile in belarus. and that is, you know, who knows what will happen. we do know, i think, that a lot of those troops that prigozhin recruited are now going to go under russian control. of course, up to 20 the ,000 -- 20,000 of those wagner mercenary troops have already been killed in ukraine. jon: but wasn't that the plan, that the wagner group was going to be absorbed by the russian army effective july 1st? >> yes, that was part of what was going on, and i think that may have been one of the many things that pushed prigozhin to make this bid to change things. but he has -- he really had been sounding off about everything from drone strikes on the kremlin back in may to the way the strategy was conducted. and the that just shows you though how difficult it is now for putin to find a decent way

out of this. and it leaves me wondering, does this make putin any more willing to negotiate in ukraine, or is it still a matter of grinding it out and, hopefully, of the ukrainian counteroffensive kicking some more russians out of ukraine. jon: prigozhin was able to seize a russian army base, the base that they use to control what goes on in ukraine. so that's a huge black eye for putin and his military staff. >> and yet i'm not surprised because russian command and control has been terrible in ukraine, and they certainly got done in when they took that facility in process of the on done. -- rostov-on-don. on the one hand, it's one hinge to seize these facilities, it's another to hold them can and to continue to move up the line. and i think that's part of why prigozhin backed off. he did not have the lo logistics

and the wherewithal to hold what he had taken. jon: but he's got 25 the ,000 troops still urn his command. that's a significant force. it's not clear how well trained they are. but they seem to be loyal to prigozhin. >> yes, and it's absolutely shocking that you'd basically almost had russians fighting russians in russia. and that's where the real weakness for putin is. he's got to deal with that. i mean, heck, i don't wish him well. i hope this is going to be the beginning of the end of putin. but who knows? and the fact this is going on, it's just staggering. guarantee you that we watched this very closely to watch those troop the movements, and and i would suspect president biden and others were on the phone today debriefing our allies on what the real status of russian forces were. were they on high alert, were they still in garrison, what did it really look like for russian forces across the rest of russia. jon: in our last 15 seconds, bad for putin but good for ukraine,

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unfolding especially in terms of what this means for their forces on the front line and whether or not there will be the possibility of an advantage or furthering their counteroffensive. now remember just how crucial the wagner mercenaries have been for russia's military. they have been on the front lines seizing many of these small contested towns many some of these larger, bloodier ballots throughout the start of the war -- battles throughout the start of the war. the potential of those troops pulling away from the front line, of course, creating an opportunity for ukraine to further advance. so what we have seen today with all of the back and forth that that these thousands of mercenaries specially moving away, many of -- potentially uss are now reportedly moving back to their bases. meanwhile today, ukrainian volodymyr zelenskyy said these events have exposed the utter chaoses in russia, and residents in ukraine are cautiously

optimistic about this in-fighting in russia, albeit temporary. this as other leaders around the country ask is continent are closely watching their neighbors to the east. president joe biden today talked with the british prime minister, french president emmanuel macron, german chancellor o olaf schultz, the the group saying they will stay in close contact in the days ahead. as other leaders around the world are issuing statements that that they are monitoring this to determine what this will mean in terms of their national security. estonia strengthening their borders and latvia banning travel for russians onto its borders. and leaders in lithuania are urging allies not to lose sight of the fight on the front line and to be ready for any situation. take a look at this video. these are the crowded scenes at a train station in the russian town of rostov today, packed, people crowding that area really creating a lot of parallels to

some of the scenes we saw when the war first broke out, only these sights were taking place on ukrainian soil with ukrainians packing train stations hoping to leave. again, it was 16 months exactlied today since the war first broke out, and last year 1 in every 3 ukrainians was displaced because of this invasion. so a lot to watch, jon, of what will take place in the days and, if anything, just the hours ahead with so many changes taking place this just -- in just 24 hours. jon? jon: you have to think that the people at rostov-on-don are perhaps breathing easier tonight. maybe that train platform is not so crowded since prigozhin seems to have taken his troops away. >> reporter: that's right. i think across the country while there were a lot of russians that we've seen saying that they did not believe that tensions would escalate as much as potentially feared, there was the very is real unrest with embassies telling poem to

shutter in place -- people to shutter in place, even the mayor of moscow telling people to go home and the governor of the region even has canceled all public gatherings in this part of russia for the next week. so having this u-turn take place of all of these mercenaries starting to head back to their bases, it's definitely a positive sign for people who live there, many of them questioning if this would turn into a coup, if this would turn into a civil war. we're definitely seeing the tensions start to fade just as quickly as they began. jon big fractures in russia's military force. alex hogan, thanks. for more on today's top story, the rebellion by wagner group mercenaries against vladimir putin and his military the, the mercenaries' march on moscow called off about four hours ago, apparently after the president of belarus brokered a deal. the kremlin says the wagner group's leader who has helped return shah in the war in ukraine -- russia and has always been very close to vladimir

putin until recently, he criticized that war. he is now going to be moving to belarus. let's bring in victoria coates, former deputy national security adviser to then-president trump, senior research fellow at the heritage foundation ask a former adviser to the energy secretary as well. victoria, we're all scratching our heads about what all of this means. you have some expertise ask and some very high-level experience in this area. how do you surmise what's going on? >> well, good to be with you, jon. you know, i think the last couple of hours have been critical. one of the things that i, the points i've been making all day is that until i see documented proof of kinetic action, i was going to be very skeptical that this whole series of events was not in some way staged. and when they confirmed that there were no casualties in rostov-on-don overnight, you've

got to really scratch your head then. because in russia if you don't have some dead bodies, it's it's not real. so i don't know, claim to know exactly what went down, but the fact that putin has agreed not to bring charges against prigozhin and prigozhin has agreed to go to belarus which is basically an asset of russia suggests to me that the enmity between them is not everything we've been led to believe. jon: but why would putin allow this kind of a challenge to his authority? i mean, it was very visual, and it certainly had a lot of russians scared. it would -- if this is just kabooky theater, it would seem that it doesn't benefit putin very much. >> well, i wouldn't say it was kabooky theater, but what putin knows now is who is going to be on his side in the event that something like this went down. you know, prigozhin is very famously hot headed. he's been saying extremely incendiary things about show i due, the -- shoigu, the defense

minister, since last summer, is and they have all been tolerated by putin. clearly, putin wasn't happy about this, you know? he made the comments about treason and, you know, a stab in the heart of the russian nation. but in the end, they made up. and in the end, prigozhin is comfortable going to belarus. and if prigozhin thought that he was targeted and was just going to belarus to be assassinated, then he would have gone on to moscow and done it that way. i really, i really think we're going to have to wait a little bit. but the notion that this is somehow a death blow to putin, i would be cautious on. jon: as you were talking, we were looking on screen at the two top leaders of russia's military, the defense minister, get rahs move, and certificate bay shoigu. word was that pregoesen wanted them ousted, and that was one of the terms for, you know, that was one of the reasons behind

his march on moscow. do you see any crack in their support? i mean, are they going to keep those jobs? from. >> it'll be interesting to watch. prigozhin has a lot of what you'd call the intangibles, jon. he's very popular, he is sort of a cult hero with a lot of russians, particularly in the military. he has a lot of support within the men. but gerasimov and shoigu have is all the stuff. they've got the air force, they've got can all the material. this would always seem to me, you know, somewhat kind of a quixotic action on prigozhin's part unless he was pretty sure he wasn't going to bear any consequences. and, you know, the way putin has kept power over the last decades was balancing off what you could refer to to is his series of pet scorpions, you know, and sort of trying to get them to not -- none of them get too powerful and he says in control. and i think that may be the

outcome that a we're seeing here, that pretty much everyone stays more or less in place, putin at the top, you know, and that this was a lever for him to try to let some steam out and then, you know, try to regroup. jon: we will be watching, as i'm sure you will. victoria coates, former deputy national security adviser, thank you. >> thank you, jon. jon: back with more coverage many just a moment. ♪ ♪ okay everyone, our mission is complete balanced nutrition.

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>> reporter: yeah, jon, and up until a couple years ago, the 62-year-old was a relatively quiet figure outside of russia. that all changed with not only the invasion of ukraine, but with what happened toed when prigozhin at one point pointed his troops not only at moscow, but seemingly at russian president vladimir putin. oddly enough, the two grew up in the same russian city, what ises now known as st. petersburg, and they've known each other for roughly 30 years. he came to prominence by earning lucrative catering contracts with the kremlin which earned him not only a bunch of money, but the nickname of putin's chef. but it wasn't until 2014 is when he became heavily involved this military the efforts. that's when russian will have backed separatetists started becoming more active in the donbas. during that same time, the wagner group was founded serving as a private military group involving a network of mercenaries. he and his forces most recently have played a significant role

in russia's invasion of ukraine not only in efforts to capture cities like bahkmut, but in the recruitment of much-needed troops. most recently he has criticized russian defense minister sergei shoigu, and this private according to some reports has even pointed to russian president vladimir putin mistakes he believes the russian military has made in ukraine. farce his future with the concern future with the russian government, that all remains very much up in the air. jon? jon: so supposedly, the agreement is a that yevgeny prigozhin is going to take his forces and head to belarus. but the forces are very much needed in russia. would it be just sort of an exile for prigozhin in belarus? he wouldn't take all of his troops there with him, or maybe we don't know yet, huh? >> reporter: it's hard to tell. and belarus, yes, it is its own country but very much a part of russia, and it leader a defacto sort of, as some would say,

puppet to russian president vladimir putin. so if something were to happen as far as discipline when it comes to prigozhin, it could happen in belarus, it could happen in ukraine, it could happen this russia, it doesn't really matter where he is. i'm curiouses to see what his role will be. yes, he's heading to bell rouse according to reports, but what's he going to be up to? will he still be the head of the wagner group? will they still be using the wagner group? as you mentioned, they've done some very heavy lifting in ukraine. jon: yeah. he might be falling out a one doe if belarus. we'll have to see. jeff paul, thanks. much more "fox report" for you in just a moment, stay with us. us. ♪ ♪ and where it's headed without fingersticks. manage your diabetes with more confidence and lower your a1c. it's covered by medicare for those who qualify. ask your doctor about the freestyle libre 2 system.

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jon: in russia the wagner group leader halting that rebellious march by his mercenaries toward mosses cow reportedly after striking a deal with the kremlin, but the biden administration is watching russia's moves carefully. lucas tomlinson live at the white house with the latest there. lucas. >> reporter: jon, we've come a long way in just a few hours. earlier today we didn't know how far that russian mercenary army would get. they were marching on moscow, reports that russian vladimir putin had fled russia's capital.

and your guest in the last hour, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, william taylor, said contrast that to the last year, zelenskyy did not flee the ukrainian capital despite the white house asking him if he wanted to leave. he said, no, i don't need a ride, i need ammunition. earlier today it was president biden here at white house on the phone with key nato allies. he then left for camp david, there he is with his grandson beau, also accompanied by his son hunter on marine one. i think that's national security adviser jake sullivan, and it wasn't just president biden on the phone, biden's defense chief and general mark milley also speaking to the their counterparts. biden's national security can adviser you see there, jake sullivan, canceling a trip to denmark. now, who ises this mercenary army who crossed in to russiad today, did not go through customs, looks like they crossed

virtually unto opposed and, in fact, sacked a city of more than one million just 60 miles from the border with ukraine where russia's southern command guards and really up runs the war in ukraine. this wagner group with putin's private army as a way to spread russian influence while maintaining deniability. putin recently sent these mercenaries to ukraine, of course, when his regular forces failed to the take kyiv. the ukraine war's been locked in a stalemate against ukrainian forces for months, and it was the introduction of these russian mercenaries that proved the decisive part of the battle in the 11-month battle for the eastern ukrainian city of back mute -- bahkmut. right now u.s. officials say nato has not changed its forposture. earlier the former ciaation chief in moscow, or dan hoffman, spoke about what today means for the head of wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin. >> he's going to be the vladimir

putin's enemy. he absolutely has spoken out, and rightly so, about the war and what a farce it is, public arely saying all of the things that i think many russians understand and agree with themselves. but russians are not allowed to speak like this publicly. they go to jail for that. >> reporter: very curious, something we haven't seen many really russian history, jon, until today. history certainly in the making. it's mote the -- notable that president biden is meeting his counterparts early next month for a nato summit in lithuania, part of it borders russia. that goes down next month, certainly that summit, there'll be even more attention on it now after today, jon. jon: so interesting, you know, jeff againny pregoes condition proclaimed so loudly and publicly that his troops were being withheld am in addition that they needed for their fight in trying to take bahkmut, and yet somehow they had the

resources to at least mount this a assault or surrounding, whatever you call it, on rostov-on-don and then head toward has to cow. they had something, they had fuel at least. >> reporter: right. they had fuel. most notable, jon, i think this movement was large wily unopposed. these mercenaries were able to cross the border, they clearly didn't go through customs. hay showed up ins process to have the on done, even photos of these guys in a store with rifles, they weren't even cutting the line. it was just, you know, just a wild day today, jon is. and it's notable that the fear, of course, russia has the largest nuclear stockpile and nobody wanted to see those get into the wrong hands, so a lot of attention here at the white house, the pentagon and is langley as well, jon. jon yeah. it is going to be fascinating to see what happens over the next 24 hours and really beyond that. lucas tomlinson doing a great job reporting this story from the white house. lucas, thank you. so hour two of our special

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thousands of russians hired guns mercenaries order to stop their mock march to moscow before their retreat the rebel group had seized control of a key city in southern russia. good evening i am jon scott this is the second hour of our special two hour edition of the fox report. ♪ we have fox team coverage the extraordinary events with greg pocock, lucas tumbles it from lieutenant colonel daniel davis. we