he s a leader of the wagner group, which are soldiers for hire, violent mercenaries with reputation for ruthless violence. they have fought for russia in ukraine and in conflicts across central africa in the middle east. saturday, prigozhin stage in our midst mutiny leading his mercenaries on a march that threatened to reach moscow coming within about 120 miles of the capitol. the crisis ended when prigozhin agreed to pull back his forces in a deal it allowed him to leave russia and avoid arrest. well rebellion appear to be aimed at ousting russia s military leaders, they dealt a massive brew blow to putin strongman image. we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go and when they get there but certainly we have also have new questions that putin is going to be addressing in the weeks and months ahead. this is a challenge coming from within to putin and that s where his focus has been. it s going to unfold over weeks and
quick. he is in great peril i think actually putin is pretty well defusing this largely comical coup attempt approaching moscow. tell him to go away without having a street battle between these armed infantry troops in his own personal security apparatus around 4000 people. so it seems to me that putin s got to consolidate pretty rapidly internally. nobody gets out of these two existing yahoo s you ve got they ve been there way too long, don t know what they re doing. why did he send the commander of the armed forces keeping his title down to run the operational battle ukraine. the whole thing doesn t make much sense so putin needs a new team on the battlefield here pretty quick.