wins between yevgeny prigozhin and sergei shoigu?that's far from clear right now. they say it's possible that putin and shoigu move to dismantle wagner and sideline or possibly even imprison prigozhin himself. >>> general hertling, i want to pick up on brian todd's report there. do you think it's safe to say that putin has sided with his military leadership with shoigu, with gerasimov at least for now? and do you think that that is a mistake by putin? >> you know, alex, this is so complex. yes, it's a mistake, bottom line. but prigozhin is a symptom of a disease. he is not the disease himself. mr. putin's government and the way he uses his military and the graft and the corruption of guys like shoigu and gerasimov who have been there for over a decade, are more the disease itself. prigozhin is just symbolic of what is happening. so, when you're talking about trying to address these issues and to fix these things, mr. putin just cannot do it, because this is inlaid within the government that is a kleptocratic authoritarian state that

we've seen him squabbling with the leadership of shoigu and gaza. al for months now. and he came to the point of almost stopping the fight in bakhmut because he said he wasn't getting the appropriate support from leadership in moscow. so this squabble has been going on for some time. and there are people today even who believe this was more about displacing shoigu and -- rather than displacing putin. i think the dust has to settle on that yet. but clearly mr. prigozhin had a plan that he executed well to take over two very important cities in the south to start making his point that something needed to change with the senior military leadership of russia. >> alexander, i mean does that make sense to you that prigozhin was going to go to moscow with his mercenaries and, what, confront shoigu and other military leaders? because clearly vladimir putin in his statement was portraying this as a treasonous act, a stab in the back, a betrayal. >> we don't know whether the plan was really to go into moscow, but they came very close, much closer than many people had anticipate

and when the kremlin asked about shoigu's proposal, his spokesman answered that i do not know about any changes in this regard, which could mean a lot that he remains in office he gets wagner's powers he gets more control but as he and putin know the problems of the russian military are not going away and our fourth corner of the situation is the president himself on saturday he appeared on national television accusing prigozhin of treason but the suppression of such a rebellion mercenaries were hardly included in putin's plans , as well as moscow's preparation in case of an attack by wagner. and the united states is watching all this. more cracks have appeared in the facade , it is too early to say when and how it will all end, but there are definitely many questions that putin will have to answer in the coming weeks and months, it is very difficult to say, but putin has found himself under such pressure that has rarely happened before. our fifth question is the situation at the front. because putin involved bagnerians to strengthen russian forces in ukraine, but the territorial gains

he does not sit back like shoigu does for instance.london. this is bbc news. vladimir putin says russia is facing a battle for its future in the face of what he called an "armed mutiny" in the country. translation: any internal mutiny is a serious threat to our state, our but prigozhin is restricting it row, but prigozhin is restricting it to shoigu and gerasimov

so he has shoigu in his siahts moscow, we present.igu in his sights but _ moscow, we present. so he has shoigu in his sights but what _ moscow, we present. so he has shoigu in his sights but what about _ moscow, we present. so he has shoigu in his sights but what about putin, - in his sights but what about putin, and as putin still running the show? i think we have to assume president putin is still in charge and for whatever reasons he was tolerating prigozhin�*s previous outbursts and that mayjust be weakness on his part, but for whatever reason he has now gone too far and we have heard about troops being deployed on the streets of moscow and some southern cities. it is so hard right now to work out what is going on because it would appear some tv and radio stations in the south of russia are being hacked and prigozhin�*s message being hacked and prigozhin�*s message being put out direct over those channels. we know in the past ukrainian military intelligence has hacked into those tv stations in the southern russia, so are they invo

well, call shoigu to ask what we allies need to stay in the country. quote i tell the heads of state in all testaments. if someone thinks that it will be good for someone because in russia it’s bad to forget and quote, if russia collapses under the rubble, we will all be, if someone doesn’t understands, think about it, delve into history. you know, i have already said that i am very pleased with the way the militias were deployed and others very quickly understood what was happening and were ready to act. all of you are commanders of the direction of units and so on, my position. what to look for? i just said that if russia collapses, we will remain there under the rubble. we'll all die. secondly, this is the center of our civilization, no matter how much we would like, no matter how much they inflate the bag, that we are all like that. yes we are we are special we are independent. we have have their own plans, their thoughts, and so on, but this is our common civilization. why we should calmly watch how we should be broken from the outside from the in

so it is, i think, a response to the question, where is mr shoigu? will he stay in hisjob? badly damaged is russia and the authority of president putin by the mutiny that we saw play out over the weekend? those extraordinary scenes, really. i mean, you can't overstate how odd, how dramatic it all was. it ended with a supposed deal. and the question was, as part of yevgeny prigozhin keeping his freedom, did he get, if you like, the head of sergei shoigu? the answer seems to be for now no, that he is still in hisjob. he still has the confidence of russia's president, at least at the moment. yes, because, sarah, these images wouldn't have been put out without the kremlin's or president putin's say. that is significant, that he does appear to have putin's backing. yeah, i think that's critical. i mean, we haven't heard from vladimir putin himself. that's not really surprising. you know, he doesn't necessarily appear every day to comment on everything, even a crisis this big. in fact, it's quite characteristic for him to disappearfor some time, perhaps to see how things play out

it's probably gerasimov and shoigu's heads, on a stick. you know, and we don't know yet whether is actually an organized russian military attack on his own wagner forces. you know, prigozhin has been the tip of the spear for vladimir putin beyond ukraine, throughout other continents in african elsewhere. so, he's been prosecuting russian foreign policy in syria and elsewhere. and doing it in the most brutal possible fashion. we're talking about two very brutal characters here. it's hard to know who you would root for all of this. >> yeah, andrea mitchell for us, as always, my friend, thank you. of course, you can always watch andrea mitchell reports every monday through friday, noon eastern. right here on msnbc. still ahead, everybody, a live report from ukraine, on how officials are responding to the russian infighting that we have seen today. plus, how the u.s. and other allies could assist ukrainian troops, and what could be a crucial moment in that war. i'm gonna speak to alexander mid men, former security -- with the u.s. security cou

e, in addition, shoigu, when visiting the hmm group of troops, noted the effectiveness of the group'sons. west about this is also with reference to the minister. defense reports, uh, ministry, well, such juicy reports are coming. yes, the commanders of the west group reported to shoigu, and we are conducting you in combat coordination and formation. uh, regiments, the reserve is also an urgent message. the latest, which comes right in these minutes in a minute, is that sergei shaigu hmm uh, checked the forward command post of the western group of forces in the zone of his. immediately after the advertisement of a day in history, a selection of the most important and interesting events of this day in different years and eras. the power of light the power of siberia is a treasure only in alpha-bank get the first alpha-stickers in russia, paste them on your phone and pay. as usual, you will have time to order before june 30 and get your sticker absolutely free at alpha-bank.ru alpha-bank is the best mobile bank. a sip of water from the holy spring will help with juicy fruit and berry fla

for now, shoigu keeps hisjob.ing wagner fighters, gaining more control, but as he and putin know, the struggles of the russian military have not gone away and our fourth consideration is the president himself. on saturday he went on national tv accusing prigozhin of treason, but having to address a mutiny by a mercenary force that he's backed is unlikely to have been on putin's list of things to do. nor would have been moscow having to prepare in case wagner arrived. and watching on is the us. so, i think this is clearly... we see cracks emerging. where they go, if anywhere, when they get there, very hard to say. i don't want to speculate on it. it is very hard to say. but putin has been under pressure as rarely seen before. that happened connects to our fifth issue — the state of the war. because putin brought in wagner to give russia momentum in ukraine. but territorial gains have proved elusive and now, as once again putin tries to address that, a mutiny led by someone who was a key figure in russia's operation

shoigu on the other hand has never had, this is his first military experience.ou might say, okay, our secretary of defense here in the states doesn't need to be for example a military leader but shoigu really has zero experience except for his connections to putin. that's the most important thing. by the way, gerasimov is not the first guy to hold this job. they've been cycling through lots of generals. >> and shifted back over atop everything. it's a fascinating dynamic. a lot of different players. steve hall, thanks for helping us understand. poppy. >>> we have been having, also, fascinating time listening to steve on what he's been saying, we're going to talk a lot more about that, what this all means, especially for vladimir putin. let's bring in ian bremmer, the president of the -- how three threats in our response will change the world. and with us david sanger, and cnn senior political commentator, former republican congressman adam kinzinger. thank you for being with us. how important you think it is that nato was so in lockstep in response to this. >> w

and so this is a much, much broader, than simply requesting a meeting with shoigu.ere. now, can he get to moscow? don't know. that depends on what inroads he's made in other russian intelligence groups, and in russian military groups. so the next 24, 48 hours, are critical. if he moves, if he gets to moscow, if units begin to defect to prigozhin, then we'll know how serious this really is. if the column is stopped, russian forces will move back toward rostov, there will be some discombobulation, no doubt, in the russian defenses, in ukraine, maybe there will be some russian reserves pulled out of ukraine to go after rostov and prigozhin, but they will seal it off. so we've got to keep our eye on what's going on in moscow, or toward moscow. >> if that meeting is granted, the one that prigozhin wants with the russian defense ministry and the top russian general, and we've noted this, what do you think will come from a meeting like that? >> i think it would, they would try to arrest them and put them on trial in front of the russian people, accusing them publicly of th

sergey shoigu, the russian minister of defense, after the march to moscow and the attempted mutiny,prigozhin ended up under house arrest the arrest of the fsb and this information, a video has now appeared that it seems that shoigu is now with the inspection of the western western command of the troops. these are the ones that stand opposite luhansk oblast and kharkiv oblast. well, even there they posted some photo video evidence, the video can to be old, of course, but this at least means that shoigu , how long is this ? to speak, and in order to do our part, we also need our help, and in particular, we continue to collect funds for a car for the unit where our colleague journalists from the press serve . here we go with vitaly bakumenko. public organization base i don't know why we collect so badly i don't know if that's why we collect slowly, we need to speed up a little, so this separate presidential brigade and i found hetman bohdan khmelnytskyi, you don't like the presidential team bohdan khmelnytskyy why are we weakly collecting friends our colleague vitaly bakumenko has left

increased production of all products sergei shoigu visited the plant.sonally checked. how the state baron order is being carried out, the minister of defense inspected the production of anti-aircraft missiles , it is at diamond-ante enterprises that the s-300 s-400 and s500 air defense systems are made. this is one of the largest and most important concerns of the russian military-industrial complex. diamond ante. i am novikov said that this year the quote corporation has significantly increased production as part of the state defense order, they are working ahead of schedule for the entire range of products. shoigu urged to further reduce the time for commissioning new production facilities, and also stated the demand for manufactured products in the special military operation zone. according to the minister. it has proven to be effective. organized production in the interests of the ue missile part will raise our capabilities twice. i travel to businesses. watching people run out there for two in three months, in order to do all these things at the sa

, according to shoigu, the formation of two armies of the army corps delivered 3,786 single units to combat vehicles . this is a good rate of risks for disrupting the formation of a reserve. no commits the open part meeting. putin again returns to the losses of the enemy. well, i understand that this is so preliminary data there, because it is impossible to see everything on the field to the end, but on the whole it is clear, and you confirm these data based on personnel materials. the enemy confirms the field that basically this data is data taken from interceptions. the report of the commanders of the ukrainian units, who report there the loss of sanitary uh , can be drawn from this, uh, what is the equipment? technique, of course, you can supply and additionally. here is a mobilization reserve, it is not unlimited, and it seems that the western allies of ukraine really decided to fight russia to the last ukrainian. at the same time, we must proceed from the fact that the enemy's offensive potential has not been exhausted until the list of strategic reserves has been activated, and

there's been speculation over the weekend that shoigu might be sacked following that rebellion.ictures that you are seeing now are from russian state media. we don't know where or when they were filmed. britain's greatest tennis player andy barton has told sky news that he's been thinking about retirement but will not lay down his racket until he's completely competing for the final. this year's wimbledon title again. the 36-year-old speaking exclusively -- >> i hope not. you never know, the athletes need to make the most of it while they're still able to have a big injury or something would happen -- a wouldn't come back from a major operation or surgery again. i want to keep playing a bit longer, i know it's not going to be going on forever but i have an idea of what i would like to finish and it's not this year's wimbledon. >> tell us when it is? >> no because i'm not sure sure when it will be. i want to finish on my own terms. i'm playing at a really high level and i think i can do that for a couple more years. my family have been incredibly supportive, my wife's been amazin

which are formally headed by the criminal group wagner, we see how seriously he is going against shoiguasimov, we understand that if nothing is wrong with him it does not happen to mean that it is being covered by the federal security service of the russian federation, which is under the control or under the serious influence of the same bit by bit, this is a very primitive scheme , but we understand if something like this happens to mean this should either ensure the potential transit of power in the event of certain major or minor disturbances , or they are now starting to dismantle the available levers of influence on the political situation, which is an interesting question with putin alive, i think the only person who knows what is going on in prigozhin's head is prigozhin himself but it seems to me that prigozhin works for putin as before and tries to distance himself from putin, the failure of shoigu and gerasimov, that is, he spoke in such a way to push them away from putin from the point of view of who is in charge and what really is happening. putin, rather, is still constantl

population away from the war as much as possible while the main target should be their leadership shoiguasim in putin because the people do not love, if you start to turn this into a war between the russian population and the ukrainians, then i am afraid that ukraine will be in great trouble, because the russians have much more resources in terms of people and equipment tenden ukraine dear mr. colonel who is your opinion is now leading the war from the russian side of the stable gerasimov prigozhin or patroshev or putin personally yes, we understand quite strange things, in particular, those or other public marches of the criminal prigozhin, which are formally led by the criminal group wagner, we see how seriously he is going against shoigu and gerasimov and we understand that if nothing happens to him, it means that he is being covered by the federal security service of the russian federation, which is under the control or under the serious influence of the very same little bit, this is a very primitive scheme, but we understand if similar it happens to mean that this should either ensu

this is the illegitimate son of defense minister shoigu, danylo shubunov, 22 years old a young man ofscription age, a few days before the great war, quickly fled to turkey and began a career as a singer there, but his earnings are not music videos, but two office centers in moscow that belong to this talented young man since 19 years, the investigation of navalny's team is just a gift for the owner of wagner pvk, yevgena prigozhina, who loves to spread shoigu, but it seems that their conflict has reached a new level after the testimony of the colonel of the russian army, who was captured by the wagnerites or arrested by prigozhina. the arrest of prigozhin who gave the command to detain the master of the wagnerites until the end is not an action to detain the new russian turmoil, a large-scale push for war between the wagner and russian by regular troops. it is true that putin forbade him to report bad news to the 72nd brigade of the russian army. roman vinnitin was captured by prigozhin because the lieutenant colonel's unit fired at them and also mined the retreat routes. when they we

colonel who do you think is currently leading the war on the russian side shoigu gerasimov prigozhintroshev or putin personally? yes, we understand quite strange things, in particular those or other public marches of the criminal prigozhin, on which wagner's criminal group is formally headed we see how seriously he is going against shoigu and we understand that if nothing happens to him, it means that he is being covered by the federal security service of the russian federation, which is under the control or under the serious influence of that after all, this is a very primitive scheme, but we understand that if something like this happens, then it should either ensure a potential transit of power in the event of certain major or minor disturbances, or now they are already starting to dismantle the existing levers of influence on the political situation, which is an interesting question, i think, now that putin is alive the only person who knows what goes on in prigozhin's head is prigozhin himself. but it seems to me that prigozhin is now working for putin as before and trying to di

well, sergey shoigu also drew attention to the installation of military units of additional protection before sending armored vehicles, taking into account the experience of a special military operation. i remind you that these messages news agencies are distributed by reference to the ministry of defense. russia proposed to form an emergency food fund of the countries of the eurasian economic union, according to mikhail mishustin, it is necessary to establish monitoring of the food security of all countries of the five russian prime minister took part in meetings of the council of heads in the cis government of the eurasian intergovernmental council from sochi our special correspondent natalya solovyova natalya joins the facts greetings tell us details of the agenda of the main results of the meeting. hello, natalya, we continue to work at the sirius site, it is again the focus of attention and journalists of politicians. and, of course, e business today is a very dense program. in the morning, a large exhibition eurasia, our home is 7,000 m², was opened, where more than 200 different

he think this was a part of his plan to try to undermine defense minister shoigu by saying they were the ones that launched this war under false pretenses. everyone knows it's putin's war. he was responsible for it. perhaps he was thinking he could throw this out there for putin to grab on to as a way to blame. putin came out strongly, very angrily against him. >> is there any sense that ukraine has an opportunity here now? >> i think we have to be careful about that. we've seen how difficult this counteroffensive has been in the last few weeks. we know that they're bogged down on a number of fronts. we know that as much as they're trying to push through with the western equipment they've had, that it's a long road to go. and this doesn't necessarily give them a tactical advantage. yes, we see that there are cracks within the kremlin's capacity for control and projection of authority. but we don't know what actually inroads ukraine could make. >> putin does not like challengers. putin kills challengers, or he tries to. he'll poison them. he's done it in london. he's done it in his ow

we know according to prigozhin that shoigu fled rostov late on friday at about 9:00.e tally, this part that we're hearing from "the wall street journal," that there was an attempt to capture shoigu, but there are also public remarks quoted in the journal report by the head of the national guard victor zalotov that the prigozhin camp had been leaking bits of information about some sort of mutiny between the 22nd and 25th. the journal suggests that that leaking caused prigozhin to bring his plans forward and it's important to bring all of this in context and this gives us two real pieces of information. prigozhin appeared to be en route to try to topple the entire putin administration and he scaled his plans radically on that highway and capturing two top brass would have been -- it does appear they had wind of this plan before it happened and why on earth were they not able to stop prigozhin in his tracks? did they really have information or potency domestically to be able to do that and the other more obvious thing is that we'll have western intelligence agencies havi

he's been saying for months, attacking the defense minister shoigu and others. he claimed that russian forces had attacked his men, intentionally tried to kill wagner forces. we don't know if that's true or not and that's what ostensibly led him to invade the russian cities, rostov-on-don started advancing on moscow. do we know anything about why he would make this deal? he said he wouldn't want to shed russian blood. he seemed pretty blood thirsty before. >> i think there is a calculation here, or an evaluation that says he overreached. there wasn't the readiness in russia to support him to overthrow shoigu and gerasimov, his deputy to overthrow putin. perhaps overreacted. he's seen as someone who can get emotional. if his troops were attacked and he did overreact and he extended himself, he would realize his best way to back out is overreaction. although the goal was to find a deal that would allow him to have moo out of russia, at least lick his wounds and make his next move. so much we don't know. we don't know the huge push to get rid of shoigu. we don't kn

then he tried to mediate a month or so ago tween prigozhin and shoigu, saying we will give you betterake everything right for you, just stay. so there was a real reason here to believe that prigozhin thought that he had perhaps more support than he did. when the chips were down or the speed the way things played out those generals stepped away it seems. the general had the rather awkward on camera statement earlier on saturday where he said i'm standing with president putin. it underlines the fragility and divisions. big picture here if the fsb understood a problem was developing this all comes back to putin being unable or unwilling to head this problem off that had been building so publicly, never mind what the intelligence services knew going on in the background in the last couple of days. this will be building for months and putin hadn't been able to step in, get ahead of it and stop it and that begs the question why was he unable to do that? clearly he didn't feel confident enough to understand the dynamics and that's weakness. >> nic robertson, thank you very much for that. a d

it sounds like we haven't heard anything from shoigu or gerasimov the military leaders, does anybody think that they have essentially been taken out of the picture. christopher? >> my strong feeling would be that shoigu is finished, whether gerasimov survives is another matter. putin doesn't want to be seen as weak by getting rid of them in the aftermath of this debacle but it may take a few weeks to play out but in my guess shoigu won't be defense minister for that long. >> i'm asking about this because in the and the big thing here, philippe is what will it mean for the war in ukraine. does this give ukrainians a little bit more of an edge or is it something that doesn't make a difference, or someone was suggesting earlier that actually it means that somebody competent and dangerous is in belarus and now and they will add strength to putin's hand. >> the answer is yes to all of those, in reality from a tactical perspective is it affecting the ukrainian counter offensive in the russian defense on the ground, not really. the russian soldiers on the ground are too interested in protec

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shoigu seems to have disappeared at the present moment., we must also think, is weakened. this is a very bad time for the russian armed forces, when the ukrainian counteroffensive is undoubtedly building up. and we could well see the main breakthrough or break in and breakthrough attempts by their maneuver brigades — the ones well trained and well equipped with western equipment. that's what we're waiting for and i think we will start to see that quite soon now. live now to our eastern europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, who's been following events from warsaw. what actions will he undertake to show strength? i want to pick up on some comments you shared that vladimir putin does not like betrayal and does not like disloyalty and therefore, the situation where we are hearing that there are going to be no charges against yevgeny prigozhin where the wagnerfighters. what against yevgeny prigozhin where the wagner fighters. what you against yevgeny prigozhin where the wagnerfighters. what you make against yevgeny prigozhin where the wagner f

sergei shoigu, here in the front row, there is a column of the fsb of the elite special forces alpha,mployees of the fso and the national guard, military events on the cathedral square of the kremlin, surrounded by ancient cathedrals of witnesses, judging by history, they take place in exceptional cases. watching the presidential regiment graduations of military universities , those who have remained faithful to the duty of the oath and the symbolism of the chosen place have gathered here today, it is difficult to overestimate the fact that the cathedral square of the moscow kremlin is the heart of the motherland rivne at one o'clock. replenishment after the battle the supreme commander-in-chief came out on the red porch and turned to the defenders of the country. soldiers and officers are true defenders of the fatherland, who, in a difficult hour for the side , along with their comrades in arms, stand in the way of turmoil. which would inevitably result in chaos. you defended the constitutional order, life , security and freedom of our citizens, saved our homeland from upheavals, and

can shoigu tolerate that?ho is the defense head had been trying to force these mercenary forces, the wagner forces to sign a contract and fall under his normal chain of command. prigozhin and his forces said no, and that was one of the contributing factors to this effort. i cannot believe, even if prigozhin is off in belarus at this point, that all of these wagner forces who have borne the brunt many times of some of the most bloody fighting in ukraine are suddenly going to simply turn around and salute a set of at least military leaders that have demonstrated pretty much ineptness on the field. >> senator mark warner, chairman of the senate intelligence committee, thank you so much on all this breaking news. >>> you just heard that we believe that prigozhin is in minsk in belarus. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." "chris jansing reports" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >>> good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. where is vladimir putin? we do have new video of

after he agrees to end the mutiny and leave russia for belarus but we're now seeing video of serge shoiguscow is quiet with the mayor saying all security restrictions have been lifted but experts are warning the rare uprising by wagner group mercenaries could have consequences down the line with so much uncertain. cnn's matthew chance reports now from moscow. >> wagner! >> reporter: for the kremlin, these are some of the most disturbing scene from a weekend of shocking images. on the streets of a major russian city, rostov-on-don in the south, residents cheered 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, watching his supporters hail bang his car just to shake hands. the kremlin says he's now moving to belarus next door, but it's unclear that this is the last you'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

and we did a lot, and shoigu did a lot in this regard.t is, he occupied his niche, where he is, maybe something. to make yevgeny prigogine, of course, in this respect he can be understood, but to add that he is a person of such a character, the same, i am very strong, that's began. it was, to put it mildly, an uneasy day with several rounds of negotiations in the head of our president, the simple thought of bloodshed was kept. after all, this was possible to allow, in no case should we talk for the second or third time. i warned him. i already see that he is ready to back down, but i warn him eugene no bloodshed, as soon as you do it on purpose not on purpose. if you kill at least one person, especially civilians , there will be no negotiations with you. i won't talk to you. he swore to me. we have this there is no goal, and i swore to you that this will not be the negotiations went on for day 6 or 7 of the negotiations. i expressed my position. i didn’t call him six times anymore, in my opinion, he already contacted me, consulted, offere

sergei shoigu in particular, to hold them to justice.he put it, it's a march for justice is what he's calling this. but it now seems that his aims are expanding because president putin's speech earlier this evening has basically challenged prigozhin, branded him a criminal, and so prigozhin has come back and said, well, we'll have a new president soon enough. so that suggests to me his aims are expanding. sees this as a direct challenge to the putin regime, and that does suggest he needs to actually march on moscow to achieve that. the question in my mind is how practical is that, given the size of his forces, and does he have assistance along the way, and in particular does he have supporters in moscow that could make a march on moscow achievable? >> so i want to ask you. he's called for russian soldiers to join forces. do you think that this could turn into something larger, a coup? >> i think it could. particularly you look at the rank and file, in other words, the lower level soldiers in the ranks, the noncommissioned officers, the j

berating two russian senior commanders, demanding they hand over shoigu. president putin then going on national television, accusing prigozhin of treason, vowing to put down the uprising by saturday afternoon wagner troops are on the move to moscow at one point video showing them just 289 miles from the capital. but on saturday night that mysterious deal is made. prigozhin's march to moscow is dramatically halted a former russian deputy foreign minister telling us it highlights russian action in ukraine. >> the people are asking more and more the questions why it's so long, why it's so long >> reporter: we spoke to russians in moscow tonight. >> what happens now, do you think >> i don't know. >> reporter: and late today president biden on his message to russia >> we made clear that we were not involved, we had nothing to do with it. >> keir, president putin also offered a public olive branch to some members of the wagner group >> reporter: that's right, lester. he thanked those who stopped fighting to avoid bloodshed, saying they could go back to their fam

yevgeny prigozhin questioned the war in ukraine and the role of the russian defence minister sergei shoiguin military honours. prigozhin called for an armed rebellion and accused the kremlin of hitting his troops with a missile strike on friday. in moscow, security was stepped up as wagner took rostov—on—don. on saturday, prigozhin declared 25,000 of his troops had crossed the borderfrom ukraine in the early hours of the morning. the russian president vladimir putin denounced this action as a "criminal adventure" and warned of punishments in a tv address. over the course of the day, wagner forces made progress towards moscow, seizing military facilities in voronezh. in the hours later, prigozhin said that he had agreed to "stop" the movement of his troops, turning them around from their route to moscow. belarus revealed its leader, alexander lu kashenko, had been holding talks with prigozhin and putin. russian state media reported that prigozhin is leaving for belarus, and criminal charges against him and his troops would be dropped. earlier, our russia editor steve rosenberg gave us his a

the ministerial talks were held at the national defense control center shoigu noted that cuba was andemains the most important ally of russia in the caribbean region basin and now bilateral relations are on the rise, a high pace of development of political dialogue has been achieved. from the troops of the moscow territorial confederation, the hero city of moscow will be built russian troops repelled three attacks by the armed forces in the area of ​​​​the so-called temporary ledge in the south-donetsk direction, the ministry of defense reported this , two more attacks were repelled in the krasnaya limansky direction , we will learn more about the course of hostilities from denis alekseeva denis greetings tell us how the situation is developing. yes , welcome to the important news. come today from the kherson region do not give up trying. breakthrough of russian lines on the left bank. dnieper fighters. they want to create a springboard there to increase the number of groups. all this under the cover of artillery and mortar crews. the russian military repel enemy attacks and stop atta

today, now , in parallel with what minister shoigu is saying. last name is reznikov we are currently having a forum in kiev, it is called a forum of dialogues about the restoration of ukraine . the minister of defense speaks at this forum. reznikov, where is shoigu and where is reznikov yes, he sits and speaks and what does he say? ukraine there are prospects to create with a long range of destruction of more than 1,000 km. once again , a dude is sitting, who is called the minister of defense and says that there is money already allocated. here we will start soon, which means that we should launch rockets somewhere. and you can, as it were, so that he walks. these are the premises, the tanks, these missiles showed that we have it, i understand what i'm talking about, this is why i'm talking about this beast, why i call it cattle, because earlier it was he who first said the phrase we are a million to a million last year it was he who said we will create an army of millions. what's the matter? give us the rule. give us money. here is reznikov her

. >> reporter: yeah, he did, there's a number of reasons, shoigu -- prigozhin, rather, was able to drawttention to a narrative which actually has popularity with the people. that was witnessed over the weekend, there are people coming off to applaud prigozhin in rostov-on-don and applaud his troops coming out of town. he's said that the war is being badly fought and a lot of people clearly feel that way. and i think that is something obviously that touches a nerve inside the kremlin. but the reason this came out, and that this narrative went went on for so long, is partly putin's fault for not dealing with the spat in his inner circle defense minister sergei shoigu and prigozhin which ultimately has come down to control of prigozhin's troops which between shoigu and prigozhin also means a battle over the money, if you will, that those force, the wagner forces, bring in for, you know, principally for putin and for prigozhin. this is -- so, it's an innersanctioned fight for putin that he hasn't handled well. on a narrative which touches a nerve with the population. so it weakens, if you w

today, sergey shoigu was put in charge, he checked the fulfillment of the state defense order in themsk region, the management of one of the enterprises reported to the minister of defense. that in recent months the number of manufactured equipment in the region has increased several times . the results were achieved thanks to the optimization of production capacities, shoigu paid special attention to improving security. crews. all armored vehicles have already been modified for this purpose. it takes the crew 4 hours to install the roofs in cyprus. let's wait in principle, the cars are ready. dynamic protection will be sent to the special operation zone along with tanks, and they will be installed, given the large dimensions, in the areas of deployment of russian troops. how is repair and maintenance organized? equipment that takes part in the special operation sergei shoigu reported to the command of the armored forces of the tank troops, the minister of defense also visited the arsenal with rocket and artillery weapons, from where over 4,000 mortars and howitzers were sent to the

design bureau and euro-zes, but the situation began on the fronts, where the enemy, according to shoiguy. first of all, i would like to start e questions of the actual trip in the most important ones today. this is the situation in the area of ​​the special military operation. sergei korurevich, how is the situation in the combat zone we have today the situation is developing. in the next thought conducting a current of 16 days of active hostilities having suffered significant activity on monday from below. uh, the present moment is engaged in the adjustment and manning collects the performance of the battalions. uh, those forces that could continue to attack this direction in other directions. uh, naturally for people, of course the enemy. still there are preserved, despite the large number of losses. as a putinist and in terms of personnel, you understand that destroying equipment is not everywhere, but nevertheless such things, of course. preparing for what's next offensive actions, uh, from our side in society. okay i got it, thanks. an important point in addition to the fact that t

i will be surprised if shoigu stayed in power as defense minister. the other thing that has not happened here is a focus on the fsb, its failures after -- the close ally of putin, and on the security council, former security director would part of that accountability probably. >> do you believe, it's come to the military aspect of this with you, philip? do you agree that putin is definitely looking weaker, when he put this rebellion down? but it did make significant progress, didn't? it as we were discussing earlier, prigozhin is out there is saying the whole war in ukraine is on the false perspective? >> i think that probably is the lasting most important part of this, the actual basis of the war was challenged in a way which has not happened before, it's actually illegal in russia, that will have had some residents, i think. >> and philippe, we have been talking about the slow progress that the wagner forces have been making in ukraine, yet they managed to make several hundred kilometers of progress inside of russia, seemingly with very little resi

uh, shoigu didn’t see such a comely in the conflict. a so in general. a remark in the margins about how the media works and how programming of this kind is carried out. well, we must pay tribute to prigozhin, who has been working with medicine for many, many years, 10 goals better than the ministry of defense in general. whoever it was, well, prigozhin should report the tasks of the ministry of defense to fight. they work for weeks. this is the same thing, yes, prigogine first entered a very important role in russia, he loves truth-tellers. especially about the road, which, so to speak. in general, in short, and his videos were watched, watched its here these here it was discussed in a society. it's such a different matter that no one thought that he would come to this, to raise the military ball. i do not remember, except for the first world war, that the russian active army ever raised military mutinies; there was such a thing in the twelfth year, but there were rioters who were not allowed to eat. well, they simply didn’t supply them, so they weren’t

one of those was to get rid of sergei shoigu — those was to get rid of sergei shoigu himself.rsonal interest behind the scenes are going on, sol loyalty and personal interest behind the scenes are going on, so i think it is not— the scenes are going on, so i think it is not very easy for putin to shake — it is not very easy for putin to shake up— it is not very easy for putin to shake up his cabinet, as it were, quickly — shake up his cabinet, as it were, cuickl . �* �* , shake up his cabinet, as it were, cuickl . �* v . ~ shake up his cabinet, as it were, cuickl.�* �*, ., ~',, quickly. and let's talk about the situation in _ quickly. and let's talk about the situation in ukraine, _ quickly. and let's talk about the situation in ukraine, go. - quickly. and let's talk about the situation in ukraine, go. what l situation in ukraine, go. what impact do you think source will have on the fighting in ukraine? the wagner group, a fighting force, and any precocious nurse ahead of that? initially, i think we are very not going _ initially, i think we are very not going to — initially,

colonel who do you think is now leading the war from the russian side shoigu gerasimov prigozhin is itroshev or putin personally? this is how we understand quite strange things, in particular those or other public marches of the criminal prigozhyn, to which wagner's criminal group is formally headed, we see how seriously he goes against shoigu and gerasimo, and we understand that if nothing happens to him, it means that he is being covered by the federal security service of the russian federation , which is under the control or under the serious influence of the same patrol. authorities in case of certain major or minor perturbations, or are they now starting to dismantle the available levers of influence on the political situation that with putin alive is an interesting question , i think the only person who knows that what is happening in prigozhin's head is prigozhin himself but it seems to me that prigozhin is now working for putin as before and is trying to distance himself from putin, the failure of shoigu and gerasimov, that is, he spoke in such a way to push them away from puti

such an order was issued by minister serhiy shoigu, according to which all so-called volunteer unitson the front must sign contracts with the department by july 1st, this will provide them with the necessary legal status and will create uniform approaches to their performance of tasks , the ministry of defense of the russian federation does not believe that the founder of the pvk wagner prigozhin said that he would not sign contracts with shoigu, because his mercenaries are more effective than regular troops, the order given is effective in most military units. it is precisely because shoigu cannot properly manage military formations that what may happen after this order will not give us weapons and ammunition , let's figure it out as they say when the romans thunder will run and bring weapons and ammunition with the request help the capital of sudan by charter and after the end of the 24-hour truce , again the fighting also resumed violent clashes and artillery fire, the armed forces used combat aircraft, and the rapid response forces responded with anti-aircraft guns, clashes betwe

e shoigu two significant points. here we will consider the first in the case of strikes with long-range missiles on the territory of russia, e, which is not a special military operation zone. hmm if it happens there we will consider the first thing that the united states and great britain came into full conflict, and we will consider them as enemies. it follows from this. yes, as the enemy and the second will be struck at the decision-making centers, it was said in ukraine, well, who knows there? well, in this case , let's start with the events that are taking place at the front, indeed, from the fourth day they are trying to attack. and no matter how they today they said that they were still preparing, that this was not yet an offensive. again, shoigu said very accurately, 263 attacks. it must be understood that the minimum attack is a company. here she is sent, that is, 263 companies. they somehow threw forward the losses are really huge and uh, what an offensive. it has now e fully illuminated. uh, a system proble

we know he hates shoigu. we know he hates valery gerasimov. with vladimir putin, we haven't seen -- i think we have to keep that front and center. this isn't really like 1991 where people were very angry at gorbachev, did not have yeltsin in the links. this is in the same situation. i would have to go back to 1917. >> fair enough. i think we've established our connection with peter. peter, let me bring you back to finish your thought, what you were saying earlier about prigozhin, what we know about him, the potential risks he proposes to both the u.s. and vladimir putin now? >> absolutely. so, prigozhin certainly, going back to 2016, and years before that, was actively engaged in attacking the u.s. electoral process. he is currently wanted by the department of justice. he's been indicted. there is a 250,000 dollar award leading to his arrest. this, he certainly no ally of the united states. when it comes to putin, of course, he, his activity has weakened putin. but russia needs the wagner group, whether or not prigozhin is in charge of it, wha