revolt retreat, an astonishing 24 hours in global history. russian president vladimir putin staves off the biggest threat ever to his quarter century leadership as his one-time ally yevgeny prigozhin abruptly calls off a rebellion as his marches closer to moscow. prigozhin has agreed to leave russia for belarus. the wagner insurrection revealed major cracks and put his armor at home, now the world watches to see how it will impact a 16-month war on ukraine. good morning, and welcome to a special edition of the sunday, show i m jonathan katie phang who you normally see at this hour as the weekend off. we start with a sobering realization, we may truly never know how close the nuclear armed nation of russia came to a full blown civil war. the toughest test ever, putin s presidency is over, for now after brokering a truce with belarus, wagner leader if ghani prigozhin, called off a just hours after his mercenaries took control of the military headquarters in south of russia.
really hard time over the last six months, they lost thousands and thousands of fighters. that is why the parallels to 1917 is so close, because the military disaster of the russian imperial army in the first world war, happened because of corruption in the military, bad, logistics and court morale. that is also what is happening on the frontlines to russian troops, and one of the things i will be looking for is whether or not this weakness, not just in russia s military, but in putin creates an opening for ukraine to fight their way back to recovery control of all their territory. senator chris coons, of delaware, as, always thank you very much for coming to the sunday show thank you, jonathan. and still to come, what is next for a wagner group mercenaries now that their leader is that abandoning his revolt for exile in belarus. we have the latest analysis with lieutenant general stephen way after the break.