questions after valid claim to have captured the city of rostov on don. it ended quickly, less than one day after it began after a deal brokered by pollution president alexander lukashenko. an ally of putin who also has ties to prigozhin. according to the kremlin, but i go asian and his forces will be out to belarus, and charges against him for taking part in an armed rebellion, charges against them will be dropped. now they re putin nor prigozhin have seen or heard from him publicly since the deal was announced. joining me now in london, nbc news correspondent ali arouzi, and in kyiv ukraine, chief correspondent kelly cobiella, and wall street journalist and simmons. good to have all of you here. so ali, the russian foreign ministry said yesterday that the country remains in support of president vladimir putin, but bogosian lost the severn town of rostov with armored tanks in vehicles, to cheering crowds. if you are in the kremlin, does that of support for the moodiness or t
sk crisis in russia. i m michael smerconish. putin warns those involved in the mercenary group will be punished. p prigozhin says they killed a, quote, huge amount of his men. a long-time ally of the kremlin, he claimed troops had taken control of facilities in the russian cities of voronezh and rostov-on-don without firing a shot. one general called it a coup d etat, but prigozhin deniesoco. there was an announced a criminal investigation of prigozhin and they were to stop and detain their leader. in an address to the nation, putin said this. translator: i repeat, any internal turmoil is a mortal threat to our statehood, to us as a nation. this is a blow to russia, to our people. so our actions to defend the fatherland against such a threat will be severe. all those who deliberately chose the path of treachery, who prepared a mutiny, who chose blackmail and terrorist methods will face punishment. joining me to discuss is retired u.s. attorney alexander vindman, on the
it got a prigozhin, the leader of the wacker group, abruptly called off his armed rebellion. mid march to moscow. after agreeing to a mysterious deal reportedly brokered by the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko. prigozhin may have a problem back down for now, but he has exposed some very real cracks in putin s power. it s hard to imagine things going back to where they were. over the next, hour we re going to continue digging into a number of the big questions around the events in russia over the last 48 hours. what is going on in moscow, what does it all mean for putin, ukraine? we re going to start on the ground, joining us live from moscow s kier simmons. i know you ve only been there for a short period of time, here, but what is happening on the ground right now? what are you seeing on the ground around you? i just arrived in moscow, jen, you can see for yourself. behind me. one of the main thoroughfares in moscow, and it looks like ordinary life. you might eve
minister. this has multiple implications and curious to see how this plays out as wagner appears to be moving slowly toward moscow. neil: welcome back, everybody. moving slowly toward moscow in a surreal situation where the country would be under siege right now and its capital could be the next target. this of course, courtesy of the wagner group, a group of mercenary soldiers, paid by russia to do russia s bidding in countries all over the world and sometimes russia itself to put down protests and that sort of thing. and i say paid by russia, no longer as this group turns on russia. this happened about 18 hours ago when a fed-op, and prigozhin, the leader this have group often fought and criticized with generals and leaders back home at the defense ministry said enough is enough and making his fight in eastern ukraine in particular around the area that the russians on and off have control of, that might be in doubt given this craziness, but in part of the real nature of thi
story for the last 18 hours or so. just across the border from where we are right now. huge ramifications for the war and world affairs. it s called the biggest challenge to russian president vladamir putin 23 weir t weir td the man responsible, wa wagner group chief prigozhin and he claimed his forces were fired on by russia and he took his fighters, as many as 25,000 along with tanks, armor, guns out of ukraine where they were deployed to nearby key southeastern city of rostov-on-don and population is 1 million. with almost no fight put up, they took over the main military headquarters there, which runs this war here and plus other official buildings. the demand for the top russian military brass comes to him to discuss the complaints. lets to move onto threats to move onto moscow if the demands are not made and another town 30 o 0 miles close toter capitol and vladamir putin lashed out at prigozhin and a once friend and key ally and threatening decisive action. take a li