seems to indicate. he cannot. your assessment, can it survive without him or was he a central figure he was able to control the operation in ukraine or africa. i think i would give you the same answer, it s too soon to know what the future of wagner is going to be. we have to stay focused on the group, they do operate outside of ukraine and we have levied lots of sanctions against him. earlier today sandra: all right, so you ve heard from the white house now, john kirby there, addressing many questions, it will go on and we are going to continue to monitor that. karine jean-pierre will be up in just a moment as well, we ll listen in for that. but kirby saying we had good direct communications with the russians over the course of the weekend. as this was happening, trace, an alert coming in that vladimir
russian leadership who essentially leads that country, that the devil you know is better n that the devil that you don t know? i m not sure i completely understand the question. but let me attack it this way and if i m wrong. i could try bet. you lost me there on the devil stuff. sorry to get into that, i was just simply saying would you prefer to have vladimir putin leading russia or entity like the wagner group or someone named from the wagner group leading the russian government? we believe it s up to the russian people to determine what their leads shine is and we would prefer so see russia not invade their neighboring countries. and russia, since they already did that, remove their troops from ukraine and end the war today, that s what we prefer.
on prigozhin s sta sus. does the u.s. have anything where whether his safety was talked about, or could his life be in jeopardy. i would point you to the other details. do you have an assessment how much to what extent the wagner forces have been diluted in ukraine and what that might mean for the troops? diluded with a d or t? it s unclear right now, where the bulk of the wagner forces are. many of them moved back
come back and what would happen if you caught it. i think prigozhin, and i think you can catch the car. and then i think putin was close in danger of falling. look at the city of rostov, wagner group was looking and they control the war in ukraine, everything going for them, moving hard and fast, i m surprised they pulled up i would not have pulled the punch, but they did. they were the force led by wagner dmitri utten, and they were rocking in good order.
attacking civilians and infrastructure. and the russian matter, a decision for the russian people to make. third, i will say when you look at the events over the weekend it only reinforces the need for us to continue to support ukraine, which is the country that was invaded by russia, by russian military forces and by wagner forces. if anything, our support for ukraine and the wake of this event is more steadfast than it has ever been. i was not trying to say i was not trying to say that you were supporting prigozhin in any way, i m saying this development was extremely dangerous and do you at least admit that. 60 miles from their nuclear air base. the secretary said yesterday instability in a major country is a concern and something we monitor closely. i want to change topic. one more kylie first and