meanwhile, the deputy commander of the russian ukraine campaign, sergey surovikin told wagner soldierstranslation: i addressed the command officers - and fighters of wagner pmc. together we've been down a long and difficult road. we fought with you, we rested, we suffered losses, we had victories together, we are of the same blood. you must do this before it is too late. obey the will and command of the elected president of the russian federation. stop the convoys, return to bases and places where you are stationed. in the last hour i spoke with my colleague vitaly shevchenko, bbc monitoring russia editor, about the latest developments. thank you so much forjoining us. just bring us up—to—date with the latest, what you're hearing. the situation in the russian capital seems to be relatively quiet. all we know is that a certain number of troops have been deployed to the streets of moscow. we've seen videos and photographs of army trucks and personnel carriers on the streets of moscow, but the fact is that russia's media environment is very repressive and there's simply no independent med

since then there had been audio recording that has appeared which is supposedly mr sergei surovikin'sway on those who may have helped the leader of the mutiny, yevgeny prigozhin and questions about those who previously were loyal to him, whether they remained loyal to him during that mutiny. lots of rumours for the moment, still no confirmed facts and the kremlin itself when asked simply said ask the defence ministry. they are making a comment. ukraine's president zelensky says an alleged russian agent, involved in the attack on the eastern donbas city of kramatorsk on tuesday, will be charged with treason. 12 people, including 3 teenagers, were killed in the missile strike on a popular restaurant. mr zelensky said those helping russia to destroy lives, deserve the "maximum penalty". let's speak to our correspondent, gordon corera, who's in kyiv. what more do we know about this agent? a local man alleged to have been the spotter, as it is put, for this missile strike, worked for a gas transportation company and the ukrainian security service alleged that he was actually recruited befo

against some members of the kremlin elite after the disappearance of a senior russian general, sergei surovikinspondent sarah rainsford for her assessment of the latest developments in moscow. well, we know there's a lot of rumours and precious few facts at the moment, particularly regarding the moment, particularly regarding the fate of the general thought of you the very senior member of the russian military, and there have been rumours for days now that he's been rumours for days now that he's been disappeared, he's not been seen by family or friends, that was certainly being reported by some journalists with very senior contacts, particularly one, the head of a radio station formerly in russia saying he hadn't been in touch with his family since the weekend. now since then, there's been an audio recording that has appeared which is supposedly general sergei surovikin's daughter that he's at his workplace as usual, but there's a lot of rumours swelling, and questions, because it seems so unfathomable to people that what happened at the weekend was actually able to happen, that armed men were

. >> the times report is working to determine if general sergei surovikin was in the planning. >> there is no doubt that prigozhin was alone. ♪ i want to ♪ >> pop star jason derulo joins "cnn this morning" with his new book. >> in the book i say, i believe in you, so you should believe in you as well. i wanted to write this book for those dreamers out there that were very much like myself, that was looking for a way forward. >>> cannot wait for that. >> were you doing like a shoulder shimmy during that? >> i dance to jason derulo. he is the soundtrack of my 30s, something like that. >> okay. we're going to talk to him later. he's got a new great book out. we want to focus on big news on several fronts, importantly, travel. this is a big travel weekend coming up and there is travel chaos mounting at airports across the nation. with a crushing wave of flight delays and cancellations before that busy july 4th weekend. severe storms and staffing shortages have been creating a nightmare since saturday. a ground stop just announced at boston logan airport because of thunderstorms. that comes

, and the long- running feud between sergey surovikin and prigozhin its putin's public -- that precipitated now his extreme moves. in addition to that prigozhin has publicly undermined and putin's entire justification for his war of aggression in ukraine that bridges bring. prigozhin i think now his own future ultimately. i think putin's preferred approach if he can possibly achieve it is to try to undermine support for prigozhin within wagner group. prigozhin without a critical mass of loyal fighters is a much weaker force. and we have already seen a sign of that kind of tactic being used when someone generals were wheeled out to issue these amateur videos appealing publicly to the wagner forces. >> try to get them to defect if you can and if you can't you're in for something much worse. >> none of those generals look comfortable. what then would you think prigozhin's endgame is. have long watch these tensions between he and the military establishment ratchet up. do you think he is just gunning for sergei shoigu's job for ministry as defense? >> who knows. we have seen steady escalation in

because right now another extraordinary thing is you have the russian military, the general sergey surovikin who is in charge of the military saying do not support yevgeny prigozhin. we are on the same side. this is only helping the ukrainians. they are taking advantage of this. this is another really, really important moment to be watching. >>> this is what likely is going on behind americans military leaders right now. >> i am trying to get the best assessment of what's happening on the ground and there would obviously be talks with the state department and the nsc at the same time going on continuously. i would be reaching out to the european commander, general covelli who is also the sack euro commander finding out what his assessment is, certainly yens stoltenberg the nato secretary-general and then i think you have to look at some of your nato allies. the front like states like in the balkan. people understand russia well i know what's going on and we will see if they have any interesting insights. i would try to tap as many sources as possible to find out what's going on and how the u

but there've been questions over the whereabouts of sergei surovikin, a senior general who had previouslyn, who's not been seen since saturday morning, when the coup attempt began. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg has the details. if you're the president and you faced mutiny, what you really want are public displays of adoration. "we are with you, we'll support you," she says, at this moscow event. vladimir putin liked that. and look what happened last night. putin mobbed in dagestan in the south of russia. very un—putin like, this, getting up close and personal with people. good timing, though. a few days ago, it was the wagner mercenaries being cheered, including their leader, yevgeny prigozhin, as they ended their rebellion. state tv went into overdrive about putin. "even rock stars don't get this treatment," she says. this is a turbo—charged putin we are seeing suddenly. he's here, he's there, he's everywhere, trying to show he's super popular and in control. but, having survived this mutiny, russia's president faces another pressing task — trying to work out who he can trust. can he

sergei surovikin knew prigozhin. they'd worked together in syria, prigozhin for his mercenary group, surovikin as a general. surovikin last year had been put in charge of the russian forces in ukraine and it actually stood up to president putin. it's understood he was the one who said you have to pull out of the kherson region. and prigozhin liked surovikin. he said he was the only russian general worth a star. now, it's not clear if that like, mutual like -- it's not clear if that was a mutual situation that surovikin actually liked prigozhin. but there's perhaps evidence that at least prigozhin thought perhaps he could trust surovikin. we really don't know. but it appears when you sort of analyze what happened on the ground whether or not he'd put some faith in surovikin or other generals, his ability to move into rostov-on-don, take control of the military headquarters, his ability to move troops further north raises that very pertinent question, how many other military generals had wind of this, were actually on p

so, secretary cohen, what do you think is going on with sergey surovikin and do you believe that he mightware of this attempted insurrection? >> we are really in land of speculation at this particular point. we really don't know. what i think we are seeing is with a longer he stays out of the public eye, the longer it is before he comes home to his wife who said that he was -- had not come home from work yet. long day at the office for the past week. but the longer he is away, the more suspicion and speculation there is going to be that he represents more than just one individual, but there are other military tear men who share abthe same view about the war as prigozhin did. i think that will raise the level of anxiety that president putin has to have his neck on a swivel turning around and around 360 degrees saying who is with me, who against me? and he basically is walking down in the kremlin a hall of mirrors. the reflection from reality. and again, who is a patriot, who is a traitor and right now he has to be very suspicious of the people of his closest advisory team, both the governm

. >> questions are now mounting about the whereabouts of sergey surovikin. >> if he's been arrested because he was involved with prigozhin and wagner, that's not good news for this general. >> this is the worst travel experience in my lifetime. >> the worry is whether airlines can handle the july h4th holida rush. >> expect delays, expect cancellations. >> i don't want to be in here anymore. >> there's no question with all h of these storms, it's created a lot of challenges for the system. >> president biden was questioned on the white house lawn about whether he was involved or aware of a text hunter allegedly sent to a chinese business partner in 2017. >> were you involved? >> were you? >> no. >> there were certain steps we weren't allowed to take that could have led us to president biden. >> the u.s. coast guard now says presumed human remains have been recovered from the wreckage of the titan submersible. >> the horizon arctic retrieved debris, in fact, large pieces of debris. >> i see plenty of wiring and things like that, so there probably is an awful lot there for them to go on. >> d

wagner turned to general sergei surovikin.ave just arrived from the front line by order of the leadership of the ministry of defense of the russian federation. where are our troops? our commanders our soldiers our fighters volunteers complete the task superior enemy forces. they bear losses. insist on their positions i appeal to the leadership, the commander and the fighters. dude we are with you. we've gone through a difficult path. we fought with you. finalists , the enemy is just waiting for us to become aggravated. the internal political situation cannot be played into the hands of the enemy in these difficult times for the country. until it is too late and it is necessary and necessary to do this, it is to obey the will and order of the popularly elected president of the russian federation to stop the columns to return their points and areas. solve everything problems only by peaceful means under the leadership of the supreme commander of the armed forces of the russian federation well, now a little more about the video f

armed forces of ukraine in the area of ​​​​a special military operation, and general of the army sergei surovikint wrote down an appeal to the leaders and fighters of the military company. by order of the leadership of the ministry of defense of the russian federation arrived from the front line from the front line. where are our troops? our commanders our soldiers our fighters volunteers, performing a task, fight the enemy to the death with superior enemy forces. they bear losses. insist on their positions i appeal to the leadership, the commander and the fighters. dude we are with you. we've gone through a difficult path. we fought with you. the width of the risks of losing we are the same blood i call. stop the enemy is just waiting for us to become aggravated. the internal political situation cannot be played into the hands of the enemy in these difficult times for the country time. until it is too late and it is necessary and necessary to do this, obey the will and order of the popularly elected president of the russian federation solve all problems only by peaceful means under the leadershi

meanwhile, the deputy commander of the russian ukraine campaign, sergei surovikin, told wagner soldiersion: i addressed the command officers - and fighters of wagner pmc. together we've been down a long and difficult road. we fought with you, we risked it, we suffered losses, we had victories together, we are of the same blood. you must do this before it is too late. obey the will and command of the elected president of the russian federation. stop the convoys, return to bases and places where you are stationed. live now to seth jones, vice president of the center for strategic and international studies. thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. watching events unfold this evening, what do you make of what is happening? this situation _ what is happening? this situation has _ what is happening? this situation has been - what is happening? ti 3 situation has been escalating over the last several months between yevgeny prigozhin and the ministry of defence. yevgeny prigozhin has increasingly berated senior russian ministry of defence officials including minister shoigu and the

and here is what army general sergei surovikin said. i have just arrived from the front line by order of the leadership of the ministry of defense of the russian federation. and our troops our commanders our soldiers our fighters volunteers performs the task of fighting the enemy to the death with superior enemy forces. they bear losses. to insist on our positions, we are with you. we have come a hard way. we fought with you. width risks we are of the same blood i call. the enemy is just waiting to stop, when we get aggravated. the internal political situation cannot be played into the hands of the enemy in these difficult times for the country. until it is too late and it is necessary and necessary to do this, it is to obey the will and order of the elected president of the russian federation to solve all problems only peacefully. under the leadership of the supreme commander of the armed forces of the russian federation, the kiev regime in the bakhmutov tactical direction focuses on the starting lines for offensive operations of units

and here is what general of the army sergey surovikin said. i have just arrived from the front line by order of the leadership of the ministry of defense of the russian federation. where are our troops? our commanders our soldiers our fighters volunteers are carried out dacha with the enemy to the death with superior enemy forces. they bear losses. they stay in their positions. i appeal to the leadership, commanders and fighters. dude we are with you. we have gone through a difficult path. we fought with you. the width of the risks of losing we are the same blood i call. the enemy is just waiting to stop, when the political situation inside us escalates. you cannot play into the hands of your opponents. before it's too late, and it is necessary and necessary to do this, obey the will and order of the popularly elected president of the russian federation stop the columns , return them to the points, we will put the location and the areas with birth. solve all problems only peacefully under the guidance the supreme commander of the armed forces

sergei surovikin, a senior general who had previously supported wagner group leader yevgeny prigozhint been seen since saturday morning, when the short—lived coup attempt began. our russia editor steve rosenberg has more. if you're the president and you faced mutiny, what you really want are public displays of adoration. "we are with you, we'll support you," she says, at this moscow event. vladimir putin liked that. and look what happened last night. putin mobbed in dagestan in the south of russia. very un—putin like, this, getting up close and personal with people. good timing, though. a few days ago, it was the wagner mercenaries being cheered, including their leader, yevgeny prigozhin, as they ended their rebellion. state tv went into overdrive about putin. "even rock stars don't get this treatment," she says. this is a turbo—charged putin we are seeing suddenly. he's here, he's there, he's everywhere trying to show he's super popular and in control. but, having survived this mutiny, russia's president faces another pressing task — trying to work out who he can trust. can he trust

but there have been questions today over the whereabouts of sergei surovikin, a senior general who hadrigozhin, who has not been seen since saturday morning, when the coup attempt began. our russia editor steve rosenberg has the details. if you're the president and you faced mutiny, what you really want are public displays of adoration. "we are with you, we'll support you," she says, at this moscow event. vladimir putin liked that. and look what happened last night. putin mobbed in dagestan in the south of russia. very un—putin like, this, getting up close and personal with people. good timing, though. a few days ago, it was the wagner mercenaries being cheered, including their leader, yevgeny prigozhin, as they ended their rebellion. state tv went into overdrive about putin. "even rock stars don't get this treatment," she says. this is a turbo—charged putin we are seeing suddenly. he's here, he's there, he's everywhere, trying to show he's super popular and in control. but, having survived this mutiny, russia's president faces another pressing task — trying to work out who he can trus

official tonight confirming to abc news that top russian general sergei surovikin has been detained, after that failed mutiny attempt in russia. it comes after a u.s. is official claimed that surovikin had advance knowledge that wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin was planning to march on moscow. meanwhile, former vice president mike pence made a surprise visit to ukraine today. providing to ukraine. david? >> david: ian pannell with us again tonight. ian, thank you. >>> when we come back here, here in new york city, the fire breaking out at one of the most iconic stores in america. and i'm glad he did, because when i took the tabletop test, i couldn't lay my hand flat anymore. the first hand specialist i saw only offered surgery. so, i went to a second hand specialist who also offered nonsurgical options — which felt more right for me. so, what i'd say to other people with dupuytren's contracture is this: don't wait — find a hand specialist trained in nonsurgical options, today. i found mine at findahandspecialist.com. bug spray works best... when your family actually wears it. ♪ get odo

meanwhile, the deputy commander of the russian ukraine campaign, sergei surovikin, told wagner soldiersdown. translation: i addressed the command, officers - and fighters of wagner pmc. together we've been down a long and difficult road. we fought with you, we risked it, we suffered losses, we had victories together, we are of the same blood. you must do this before it is too late. obey the will and command of the elected president of the russian federation. stop the convoys, return to bases and places where you are stationed. live now to ambassador bill taylor, former us ambassador to ukraine. welcome to the programme, thank you forjoining us. firstly, your thoughts on what we are seeing unfolding in russia this evening? so this is serious for putin. there are reports, more recent reports, all reports earlier going to be suspect— but there are some reports coming in that says some of the ministry of defence forces are now abandoning their leaders and going over to the prigozhin forces. so again, we don't have this family at, but there is an indication that there is momentum behind prig

cnn asked the kremlin about general sergey surovikin and where he was, they told us no comment.esterday "the new york times" reported that he knew that the plot -- about the plot as well as u.s. intelligence knowing and trying to figure out if he actually helped plan it. there have been reports from russian hillmilitary bloggers a journalists that the general has not been seen in days, that he might be under interrogation, and that he hasn't been in contact with his family. nic robertson has this reporting. he's tracking the latest developments and joins us now. nic, cnn also reached out to the russian defense ministry, is that right? >> reporter: we did and they said that can't speak about it. no comments were the words the spokesman gave. today we're expecting president putin to speak to a business development forum in russia. i think we can look at this as another kremlin-esque victory lap where putin does a victory lap where he claims security services came together, everyone did marvelously well, people supported him, people supported the kremlin. the reality is there are b

prigozhin�*s actions as madness, whilst the deputy commander of the russian ukraine campaign sergei surovikingner soldiers to stand down. you must do this before it is too late. obey the will and command of the elected president of the russian federation. stop the convoys, return to bases and places where you are stationed. meanwhile, the war in ukraine continues. air raid alerts have been issued across ukraine for a second night. two people were reported injured in kyiv by fragments from a downed russian drone. live now to matthew schmidt, professor of national security and political science at the university of new haven in connecticut. thank you for talking to us. can i get your reaction to what we are seeing unfold in russia? i think when we hear what is going on we need to step back and pause. he is what we actually know — prigozhin put out a video. he said that russian forces attacked his forces. he then called in a vague way for his 25,000 troops to do this marchlijustice. we don't know if this is a metaphor. we don't know if this means attack moscow or not but thatis means attack mosc

meanwhile, the deputy commander of the russian ukraine campaign, sergey surovikin told wagner soldierso stand down. translation: i addressed the command officers and fighters of wagner pmc. together we went down a long and difficult road, with what we do, we rested, we suffered losses, we had victories together, we are of the same blood. we must do this before it is too late. 0bey the same blood. we must do this before it is too late. obey the will and command of the elected president of the russian federation. stop the convoys, return to bases and places where you are stationed. live now to vitaliy shevchenko from bbc monitoring. thank you so much forjoining us. just bring us up—to—date with the latest, what you're hearing. with the latest, what you're hearinu. , ., ., hearing. the situation in the russian capital _ hearing. the situation in the russian capital seems - hearing. the situation in the russian capital seems to - hearing. the situation in the russian capital seems to be| russian capital seems to be relatively quiet. all we know is that a certain number of troops have been

reports suggest that general sergey surovikin is being investigated over possible links to the mutinyy group. he's not been seen since saturday morning, when wagner's short lived rebellion began. from moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg sent this report. if you're the president and you faced mutiny, what you really want are public displays of adoration. "we are with you, we'll support you," she says, at this moscow event. vladimir putin liked that. and look what happened last night. putin mobbed in dagestan in the south of russia. very un—putin like, this, getting up close and personal with people. good timing, though. a few days ago, it was the wagner mercenaries being cheered, including their leader, yevgeny prigozhin, as they ended their rebellion. state tv went into overdrive about putin. "even rock stars don't get this treatment," she says. this is a turbo—charged putin we are seeing suddenly. he's here, he's there, he's everywhere trying to show he's super popular and in control. but, having survived this mutiny, russia's president faces another pressing task — trying to w

divided loyalty in the kremlin, documents shared exclusively with cnn, documents suggest that sergey surovikin was a vip member of the violent wagner group. keep in mind he has not been seen publicly in five days, the five days since yevgeny prigozhin marched towards moscow in a short-lived mutiny on sunday. matthew chance is inside russia. matthew, this is a crucial piece of information. i know you've actually seen these documents. as you go through them, what do they reveal? >> reporter: they're fascinating documents, because we don't know the whereabouts of surovikin at the moment. it's interesting because these documents were obtained by the dossier center which is a russian investigative group. they were shared exclusively with us so we've had a good look at them. they though that general surovikin was designated as a vip member of wagner. now, it's been long known he's had close ties with wagner. he's worked with that mercenary group in syria with russian forces, worked with them more recently in ukraine as well. he was the liaison for some time between the russian military and wagner fo

. >> the new york times is reporting that a russian general sergei surovikin was aware of this plot,en cooperating with it. is that the way it is going to end for putin that some russian generals will combine with others in some form of rebellion? >> i guess they are going to put on i-balaclava and join the army -- the thing is you cannot even fight with russia without the jails and the security knowing about it. the fact that prigozhin and his army were able to almost reach moscow, obviously mean that a lot of powerful people knew about it, and a lot of people supported prigozhin's plot. and to me, it is helpful sign that changes are coming in russia. but it's not exactly the moment where the enemy of my enemy is my friend because prigozhin is by no means my friend. i don't support his politics. as a matter of fact, i hate him. but his the march definitely showed us that the regime is naked. and in that sense, this whole year, we were trying to reassure russian people -- we did an action serving the white house, and we jumped to the defense around the military of the white house. we

. >>> documents show sergey surovikin was a secret vip member of the wagner group.wspapers and blogs report that he was arrested over last weekend's brief rebellion. a government official is denying that saying he's not in any pretrial detention facility. i don't want to comment on the nonsense of, quote, an underground detention facility. this general, though, hasn't been seen for days. we should note neither has wagner's chief, yevgeny prigozhin. what do we know? >> reporter: prigozhin hasn't been seen for days and nor has this general, general surovikin. and the kremlin are refusing to comment on his whereabouts. you heard that local official saying he's not in a pretrial detention center but he may well be somewhere else perhaps being held on a military base. we just don't know where he is. but these documents that were given to cnn exclusively do show that general surovikin, who is the deputy commander, remember, of russian forces in ukraine, was on a list of vip members of the wagner mercenary group. there were 30 other people there, high level military and in

but there are questions on the whereabouts on a top russian general for one, general sergei surovikinicials believe he had advance knowledge of prigozhin's plans. the moscow times is reporting he's under arrest. there are other indications that other generals may have supported the uprising. joining us now for all of this and where this leaves things in russia and in ukraine, democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois the co-chair of the congressional ukraine caucus. congressman thank you for being here. what do you make, first and foremost of this mystery there seems to be right now surrounding the whereabouts of general surovikin? what do you think? >> i think we use our common sense when we assess the situation. after a dramatic coup attempt like this, there will be lots of speculations and rumors. it'll take some months to really figure out. but let's ask ourselves what happened. an operation like this, of this significance, would have taken some time to prepare and a lot of coordination. and probably troops massing and moving over to the east where they eventually went. it's

documents that were exclusively shared with cnn suggest that general sergey surovikin was actually avip member of the wagner group is of course as we now knew led the mutiny against pugh putin. it also turns out he was not the only one. the russian investigative dossier center that obtained the documents that were then provided to cnn found the release of 30 other senior russian military members were also listed as vips in the group. that is certainly an unsettling prospect for the russian leader who is often quite suspicious and has been on a rather bizarre and very clearly choreographed pr tour in recent days. just today putin was seen drawing a spongebob like like character on a whiteboard complete with ears and hair. the crowd behind him waited in silence and then applauded he signed his work bizarre moment there. joining me now the president and ceo of the center for european policy analysis. and you for joining us today. i wonder what you make of the way putin has been handling the fallout of this mutiny doing this strange thing and coming out in public these very choreographed

we heard some reporting from "the new york times" suggesting that sergei surovikin which was the commandere invasion that had according to u.s. intelligence assessments potentially had prior knowledge of the prigozhin insurrection. there's no evidence publicly available to back that up and indeed some that we know publicly contradicted. he did appear on television on friday telling people to stand down, to not go along with the prigozhin rebellion and indeed, the air force which he now commands were involved in trying to slow wagner's movements towards moscow, but still, as far as we're aware, he hasn't been seen in public since the deal was struck between prigozhin, the president of belarus and putin and that's led many to think this a lot of scrutiny within the moscow elite, the top brass and possibly putin trying to re-establish authority or in this very divided, very fraught, at times cliytokratic and peopl are trying out with each other, outdo each other and profit from the situation, indeed and so that is going to make people in kyiv here frankly fighting russia in the war deeply hap

intelligence shows that sergey surovikin did have advanced knowledge of yevgeny prigozhin's plans to rebel against putin. here's our conversation. >> look, to me this whole matter seems a little bit contrite. i'm afraid now surovikin used to be -- but i think prigozhin was not planning a coup, actually planning a coup. he didn't have any strategy. he just knew that he didn't like the course of events. he understands the situation of war like nobody else in russia. so he understood that if everything goes like it goes, it will ultimately lead to a defeat, which he hates this idea because he'll end up in jail. and since the system didn't react to his signals, he was trying to strengthen pressure step by step, and definitely surovikin was part of this plan, too. there was no intent of overthrowing the regime. so i think now the security forces of putin, this fsb, they're trying to prove to putin that they're working hard and that they found conspiracy, and putin is ready to listen to them. so they are creating a conspiracy where actually there was no -- originally there was no conspirac

documents that were exclusively shared with cnn suggests that general sergei surovikin was actually a of the wagner group, which of course as we now know, lead the mutiny against putin over the weekend. but it also turns out that he was not the only one. the russian investigative dossier which obtain these documents, that were then provided to cnn, found that at least 30 other senior russian military members were also listed as vips in the group. that is certainly an unsettling process respect for the russian leader, who is often crites a spacious, and has been on a rather bizarre, and very clearly choreographed court torn recent. days just today, putin was seen drawing this spongebob like, squarepants like character on a white board. complete with ears, and hair. the crowd behind him, waited in silence to then tepidly applaud, as he signed his work. up bizarre moment there. joining me now, alina -- the president and ceo of the center for european policy analysis. thank you for joining us tonight. i wonder what you make of the way putin has been handling the fallout of this mutiny, do

. >> cnn has exclusively obtained documents that suggests a top russian general, sergey surovikin, whot saturday short-lived or vault was a secret vip member of the mercenary wagner group that led the rebellion. cnn's matthew chance joins us now from moscow for more on the man nicknamed general armageddon through his ruthless tactics. matthew, these documents, what do they tell us about general surovikin? >> they are pretty interesting. because they suggest or tell us and show according to the dossier, which is a russian investigative organization, that obtained these documents and show them exclusively to us, they show that there is a registration document for general surovikin, that is science in a wagner sort of membership number, i suppose. that membership number than appears in various other lists of people who belong to the wagner mercenary organization. it's a vip member. it does not indicate to us what vip status actually means, whether he's on the payroll, any other kind of financial benefit. there is not evidence for that. but it does strongly imply that there is a very, very

going after sergey surovikin, who runs the russian military. there's a question of is this real?l now, yes? >> i think it's always looked real. right? this is what we've been looking at. it's prigozhin is a very scary man. he's been -- as putin's in for sure. he served as putin's shop troops. he's wielded to private armies in syria and now in ukraine. his grown exasperated, his exasperation has been reflected in what seems to be realtime on telegram. over the last few weeks, especially. the ministry of defense, and the presidential administration, has real telita. by basically telling him that he should know his place. effectively, trying to get his private army under control. to get it assumed by the minister of defense once prigozhin got a little bit to -- this is prigozhin's reaction today. he has gone from criticizing putin, for not being decisive enough, and not throwing enough resources at the war, to saying, look, there was no reason to waste this law -- you have been lied to, you my mercenaries, you conscripted men, you the russian people have been lie to. there's no poin

russian general sergey sur surovikin. there were 30 other names on the list.t matthew chance in moscow this morning. this is quite a stunning report. >> i mean, it's a stunning revelation, and it sort of talks to the kind of issue that nick was mentioning in that report from kyiv where he was saying basically what was it that led the russian military to allow this mercenary wagner group to take over a russian city, for instance, with such ease, and there are questions in moscow circulating in the kremlin about the possibility of divided loyalties. this revelation, these documents speak directly to that, because it seems that, you know, general surovikin, the deputy commander, you know, of ukrainian forces, i'm sorry, russian forces in ukraine appears to have been since 2018, a vip wagner member. and you mentioned he's not alone. there are 30 other senior russian military and intelligence officials that have also been fanned to be on the list by the dossier, which is a russian investigative group, and, you know, we don't know what vip membership means for wagne

whereabouts of a russian general who reportedly back the wagner military mutiny near the general sergei surovikinasn't been seen in public since last weekend. that's when he released a video pleading for wagner to end the insurrection. but several news agencies now reporting he was among a group of high ranking russian officials who supported the coup attempt and is now being held at a prison in moscow. however a russian spokesperson is denying that the general is at any pretrial detention facility. former vice president mike pence, who is now running for president, says he supports american involvement in ukraine, but believes the biden administration is too slow in providing military support. pence made a surprise trip to kiev and met ukrainian leader volodymyr zelensky. he was briefed on the current situation, including allegations that russian soldiers are kidnaping ukrainian children to try to weaken ukraine's resolve . tom now for 39. happening today, a south bay landmark celebrating the 100th anniversary of its public debut. the famous haunted winchester mystery house has attracted visitor

wagner turned to general sergei surovikin.