stopped his advance on moscow and apparently pulled at least some fighters out of rostov-on-don. they had made to it within 120 miles of the capital when they suddenly decided to turn around. the kremlin saying they have putin s word he can go safely to belarus free from prosecution. you can see him being cheered by the folks. they even went to shake his hand. prigozhin saying he made the deal because he didn t want to shed russian blood. translator: therefore, russian blood would be shed from one of the sites we turn our column around and turn in the opposite direction according to the plan. we also see here some of his departing fighters who seem to get some cheers from residents as they stood on top of the tanks. so we have full team coverage for you over the next hour. our team of correspondents and guests. i start with nic robertson. so prigozhin has been seething at russian leadership. he s been saying for months, attacking the defense minister shoigu and others. he
that didn t happen and therefore, that was one of the reasons he realized? or he had a sense that he had overreached? there are so many things we don t know. it is hard to imagine him thinking that he could go to moscow with the troops he had. what would have been his plan to try to surround the ministry of defense and arrest or kill the defense minister? it seems hard to imagine. i mean, to be clear, we are guessing here. we don t have the inside information. i certainly don t have access to intelligence. it seems that our intelligence community was aware that prigozhin was planning something and the guys had a used to work there and followed the open cat intelligence, they also indicated that they thought he was planning something. so i think that prigozhin is not stupid. he probably thought he had lined up more support. the fact that he got as far as he got tells me he had some