fears and in some cases respects. >> reporter: one analyst says no matter how this high-stakes drama turns out in the end, that at the very least, yevgeny prigozhin has damaged vladimir putin by openly telling the russian people that the ukraine war was started under fraudulent circumstances. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> big question is, what exactly was prigozhin's goal here? was he aiming to topple putin himself, or did he have lower targets in mind? >> i actually don't believe that this was an attempt to take over power from putin. i think that this goes back to june 10th when shoigu issued this order to dismantle all private military companies in russia, including most promp continently wagner, and to make everyone sign contracts, subsuming them on july 1st. prigozhin said he wasn't going to follow through with this, and he expected putin to take his