there for realizing that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our colonies around and lead in the opposite direction to the field camps and according to the plan. the kremlin says it doesn t know where bogosian is right now. this is a video where his troops seized military facilities on saturday. officials now tell cnn that u.s. intelligence believes they were planning to directly challenge russia s military leadership for a while. meanwhile, washington did not see any change in the russia s nuclear posture during the turmoil. continues to monitor developments in russia. he joins me now from hong kong. tell me more about where things stand right now. in the last day or so, if that is an indicator, people can be different in a few hours from now. for now, michael, the russian state media is reporting that the highways leading north to moscow are being reopened. these are highways that state television themselves reported how russian officials were t
because of an insurrection led by the leader of the wagner mercenaries that ended nearly as soon as it started. an apparent clash between wagner and russian troops which was followed by a fire at that oil refinery you see on your screen there. under the deal done, the kremlin says wagner troops will not face any legal action, but they ll sign new contracts with russia s defense ministry while moscow will drop its charges against prig prigozhin, who will go to belarus. wagner s leader says he agreed to that in order to avoid bloodshed. translator: therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps, according to the plan. the kremlin says it doesn t know where prigozhin is right now. what you see there is video of people cheering as he left ross stor-on-don where his troops seized military facilities on saturday. officials now tell c
to get putin to react to it, more or less in realtime, is huge. does that mean that the putin regime will end before putin dies? we have no idea. but it does mean that it is in crisis. you know russia and russians very well. i mean, this isn t 1991 when swan lake played on tv when the coup went on. people know more these days about what s going on. what will people be thinking right now? do you have any sense of that, how much they would know? actually, i think people know a lot less than they did in 1991. really? 1991, there was a vibrant media scene and quite a lot of information flow. these days, the information regime is extremely restrictive. but it could become more res restrictive, and that s probably what putin is going to have to do. he s going to have to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.
real time, it is huge. now, does that mean that the regime will and the focus? we have no idea. it does mean that it is happening. you know russians very well. this isn t 1991 where swan lake played on tv. people no more these days about what is going on. what will people be thinking, right now? do you have any sense of that?, they would know? actually, people know a lot less than they did in 1991. in 1991, there was quite a lot of information flowing. these days, the information regime is extremely restricted. of course, it could become more restrictive. that is what he will have to do. he is going to have to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. the only way for him to do that is really cracked down on