jon: it is perhaps the most serious challenge to the vladimir putin s authority, although at this moment it appears the challenge has edged. yevgeny prigozhin has turned his forces around and is said to be heading back to belarus. let s check in with our greg palkot who s covering the story from that part of the world. greg. reporter: jon, it looks like we re back on the brink in russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv, but it also looks like a lot of damage was done. it was the biggest risk to russian president vladimir putin s more than two decades of rule, attempted coup, an armed uprising. the man responsible, evgeni pregoes telephone, complaining friday about the war, then pulling his fighters out of ukraine and into the russian city of rostov-on-don with where, with little trouble, they took over the place. and, yes, prigozhin sent forces towards moscow, within 120 miles, the kremlin bracing for an attack, vladimir putin branding the actions
military contractor business in the same way. but he s made his point and that is to show the terrible price of this war in russia, the shock of getting mercenary forces heading up the freeway towards moscow, and he has shown that putin has him really in a tight spot and is going to have to be rethinking how putin holds control of russia and, of course, what he does about ukraine. prigozhin has made his point. jon: but it would seem that prigozhin probably doesn t have a very long life expectancy at this point given that he mounted what putin referred to as a mutiny. yes, and he has been screaming about the bad russian strategy for months. u.s. intelligence has watched this, and prigozhin has been in a big feud with other russian generals and defense ministry officials. i think this was his gamble to