not picking up one of this military units should be under s command, planning this, doing this. and has managed to get up through russia, where the military there are charged to protect their home country, with the fsb. the fsb other architects of the original plan of what was going on in ukraine back in 2014, and working through this real failure of the top, politically, this will have implications which will play out. if prigozhin had been building up alliances within the giu for example, will this be defused now that he s been moved to belarus or not? they are saying the wagner group is like a hydro in some respect. it is. and the wagner group, effectively was it is a construct, and a gru construct, not just for ukraine, but for activities across the globe. the air is in a number of different countries around the world, carrying a different
and explosion shook a second city, voronezh. and a missile narrowly missed a military helicopter there. an oil depot too was set ablaze, and a convoy of wagner fighters heading for moscow. authorities scramble to build roadblocks to slow their advance. but as yevgeny prigozhin s mercenaries drew nearer, there was an unexpected u-turn. a deal brokered by russia s key ally, alexander lukashenko of belarus, has led the man once called putin spitball to step back. he s now leading leaving massive uncertain. vladimir putin may have faced down the greatest threat in his 23 year grip on power, but the new images of troops preparing defenses in moscow and the threat of armed insurrection could do lasting damage to the kremlin and the authority of the president. across live now to discuss diana making, in moscow for us
russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin appears for now, to be over. the russian president vladimir putin called it a knife in the back of our people, and said that his forces were traitors. but a deal has now been negotiated by belarus and the kremlin, said the rebel leader will be allowed to leave the country and his fighters will not be prosecuted. our moscow correspondent diana magnay reports. yevgeny prigozhin cheered by supporters after bringing his country to crisis point. it was a rebellion that ended as quickly as it began, armed wagner mercenaries leaving rostov-on-don less than one day after they took it over. a deal swiftly struck, to call off his troops. translator: the time has come when blood might be shed. therefore, conscious that russian blood might be shed by one of the parties, we are turning our columns around and moving back to the field camps. in return, prigozhin was
russian mercenary leader per goes after 24 hours of mayhem. prigozhin agreed to leave russia after talks with the leader of belarus the kremlin says he will be prosecuted. wagner troops have also begun to leave the southern city of where the mutiny began. hours earlier vladimir putin had called the rebellion treason. moscow residents have been told to avoid traveling and all of mass outdoor events are canceled until next month. the zelenskyy says the last 24 hours and russia prove the country is in a state of chaos with no one in control. welcome to sky news
either of those tendencies, what they will be doing is exercising restraint over speaking what has happened in russia. how do you think this will impact vladimir putin, can he come back from this? i think it is undoubtedly badly damaged mr. putin, as your previous speakers were saying there is an enormous amount that we don t know about what happened here, we will start with what we do know the wagner group in organizations are not a phenomenon that grew up against the will of the kremlin, it s system biotech relation, in which those groups and those people are not only tolerated but encouraged because they do the kremlin s dirty work for it what happened though is the struggle for control the resources between prigozhin and the minister. putin allowed it to run and then it turned into prigozhin