military and civilian functions within the city of ras of on the on have been blocked. putin vowed to take decisive action to put down what he and the kremlin are calling it quote undertaken by progression who they are calling a traitor. putin also vowed to not let the rebellion become a civil war at the end of world war one. now, here s what we know. multiple reports indicate that there has been some small fighting along the major highway in the area as well as reports of convoys of military equipment being moved along that highway. russia also moved military equipment in and around moscow. that s what you re looking at right now, and other major cities across russia. this all comes after progression, yesterday, heavily escalated his public feud with russia s defense minister, sergei showing you and the head of russia s armed forces, valerie grass above. both of whom prigozhin publicly hates and blames for rushes failures in ukraine. for the beginning of the invasion, bu
i do think that putin is much weaker today, and it remains to be seen how much weaker he will be as a result of this. this could be the beginning of the end for him politically, which is not to say that it will come about tomorrow, but this is the biggest challenge that vladimir putin has faced in his entire governing as the russian federation since 2000. it is serious. crews often fail, certainly coups fails our first time around. doesn t mean that they don t succeed later. but in some cases, and the one i m thinking about right now is turkey, the attempted coup against or the one caused him to be a marginally democratic leader, turning him into something of an autocrat. that s obviously not an issue in russia, because putin s already an autocrat, but when crews fail, if this one fails, putin is going to do something to make sure this kind of thing doesn t happen again. what s the concern about what that looks like? that s right, ali.