well, from putin chef to an armed ruvolt, yevgeny prigozhin is now headed to belarus apparently. and stachgly aenough the kremlin says putin personally guarantees he won't face any prepercussions. fred pleitgen gives us a closer look now at the mercenary leader who may be one of the first major challengers to emerge unscathed. >> reporter: hi there, anderson. yevgeny prigozhin seems to have certainly had a pretty meteoric rise. on the one hand that's because he was so close to vladimir putin. however, he was pretty important for vladimir putin as well. if you look at the beginnings it really was pretty small. at the start he was in jail in the 1980s in the soviet union and then started selling hot dogs in the 1990s in st. petersbering. it was there he founded a