back as the wagner group was prepared, in their words, at any rate to turn their convoy around some 125 miles, 200 kilometers short of the russian capital moscow. what we don t know now is what the longer term implications for the putin regime are or indeed for the ongoing conflict in ukraine because this clearly utilities the ukrainians very nicely, wolf. certainly does. sam kiley with an update for us. we re also learning much more about how president biden is trying to manage this moment and what u.s. intelligence officials knew leading up to this weekend s crisis. i want to bring in arlette saenz and alex marquradt.
and zelenskyy follows a call biden had yesterday with top allies, including the leaders of france, germany and the united kingdom where they not only talked about support for ukraine but also those developments in russia. officials have been very careful with their statements regarding this uprising, this insurrection in russia, because they don t want to give any credence or belief that they were involved in any way. but we have started to hear the first reactions from the administration as today secretary of state antony blinken said they are starting to see some cracks emerge in putin s hold on power. of course officials here will be trying to determine the impact of these developments in russia and also in the war in ukraine. excellent reporting. thank you very much. we ll be right back. cutting edge innovation. ( ) .and thoughtful dedetails. .inspired by you. ( )
popping up every other day on camera, in the middle of bakhmut, on the front lines. he has got a lot of emotional support because there s this general feeling in russia among people that, number one, the leadership doesn t care a jot for them. nobody thinks putin cares for them, that they ll be used as cannon fodder on the frontline and that that s a problem putin has today. what we ve witnessed and the question is how could prigozhin do so much so easily. that appears to be what putin is afraid of and that was potentially that leverage that prigozhin was able to use to be able to essentially walk out of this apparently on his terms. again, we just don t know the deal yet. good point. alex, we re told president biden s direct message to various western leaders was to
has proper communication and in a dramatic announcement yesterday, the combative head of the organization said his troops would turn around after coming just 125 miles from moscow. translator: therefore realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and lead in the opposite directions to the field camps, according to the plan. it was the most serious challenge to russian president vladimir putin s rule since he came into power 23 years ago. wagner s soldiers were cheered by supporters as they prepared to leave the russian military city. president biden has not commented publicly on the situation in russia, but u.s. secretary of state antony blinken told cnn state of the union earlier today that he does not think this is fully
and how little resistance there was. there was no resistance from the russian military, from the russian security forces, from the border guard. they met zero confrontation along that road to moscow. i m told there had been a u.s. as i assessment that a lot more violence and bloodshed was expected and that never came, wolf. thank you very much. let s get analysis from the former assistance secretary of state for political military affairs during the george w. bush administration. general, thanks for joining us. president zelenskyy says he and president biden discussed the hostilities in russia and putin s war on ukraine. how do the u.s. and western allies help ukraine capitalize on this russian instability? well, i think 24 hours ago there was an opportunity to capitalize on this when you had the instability, when you had the uncertainty about the