michael mcfaul says russia could be coming closer to a compromise with ukraine. the idea that the only thing that we can do to end the war in ukraine is to give them a face sitting way out which usually translates to by the way giving him ukrainian tele-tory think this is a whole episode has really undermine the hypothesis. maybe putin will negotiate not when he s winning or not when he s given a gift of territory in ukraine but when he s using, as he just did yesterday. joining me now with the latest nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. what more can you tell us about president zelenskyy s conversation with president biden? well, alicia, these conversations between kyiv and washington are ongoing in regular and they are happening at all levels of government. president biden spoke to president zelenskyy but lloyd austin the u.s. defense secretary spoke to his counterpart ukrainian defense minister today also. and yesterday we saw that general mark really the ch
from the ministry of defense, one that is crucially important to the kremlin. especially given recent rumors of the health of lukashenko. do the deputies are thin on the pitch details. what role can you see it goni prigozhin taking in belarus? [speaking non-english] if, so he remains a powerful leader, a violent man. prigozhin is not the type to bow out quietly. it does not feel like this is his final act. sky news, moscow. our thanks to diana magnay for that report. more american voices after this quick break. at the top of the hour, do not miss a special hour of a man. followed by special weekends
ukraine. he needs him for his own protection. he also needs him to keep prigozhin s troops in line. putin can t imagine what would happen if prigozhin were arrested or disappeared. what would happen to the tens of thousands of men who are actively serving and prigozhin s private army? hundreds of thousands who served in the army in the past. so, this is really, putin might be better off if he could get rid of him. it might be too risky of a proposition. there are many questions that remain in this moment. i appreciate all the asterisks you point on every answer. marcia gessen, as always, thank you for your time. next, how moscow is moving or the rebellion. stay with us. wh itus
yevgeny prigozhin, presumably en route to belarus waved off the chairs and last night. nothing new on the queue for the commander-in-chief, just some pre-recorded insight into his evening retain. [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] as for the top military brass, the support of the targets of this coup, not a whisper. ceci enforces who promised to stand with putin arriving late to the scene. guarding rather aimlessly despite the triumphant motion and empty motorway breads. red square was still shot. and anti-terror precaution.
it is hard to talk about what happened this past weekend. it went through several iterations. there is the first iteration that was a mutiny, and then it briefly looked like a coup, and then it looked like an act of terrorism that had succeeded. the negotiations gave the terrorist and chief a safe getaway. he went to belarus and he found something in exchange. what he was probably promised was the removal of on the one hand, it weakens putin to have given into prigozhin. on the other hand, the fact that the russian army could tolerate that kind of uprising, what we are looking at now on the screen is the way people who are greeting people, prigozhin s troops, the seat of the military district of russia, that does not show to be a