signs it seems for now perhaps cooling off. thousands of mercenaries who have fought for russia and ukraine have been marching rapidly towards moscow as they turned on vladimir putin. just in the last half hour halting their dance we are told on the capitol the head of the wagner groups and he gave the order to avoid shedding russian blood. this, after letter potent valid decisive action against what he calls treason. it is ongoing and fluid situation here at fox news we are on top of it all. hello everyone what would fox s life i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i m arthel neville. today stunning developments represent the first major challenge to putin s decades long grip on power. the head of the wagner group is a long time kremlin. he has been increasingly critical of russia s military in recent weeks. he says his forces have seized key russian military facilities knew that near the ukraine border. again they are being ordered to return to their fi
wagner group. it was used to dispatch to sierra and africa way to spread russian influence and maintain deniability. putin recites that the source and ukraine as regular porpoises failed to take kyiv over a year ago hundred been locked in a stalemate integrated forces for months for the introduction of the mercenaries that proved decisive the 11 month battle. with the city of kyiv, prigozhin rose to power after getting out of jail flip if you hot stand turning them into successful restaurants and a catering business in putin s hometown sto power acted prigozhin together. is been sanctioned since 2016 by the u.s. government for interfering in u.s. elections, you remember that one. it was notable for the midterms are in the u.s. last year prigozhin boasted openly he was behind those millions of bots and fit person is an incident his wagner group in fact was sanctioned later by the u.s. treasury this past january in fact retired u.s. air force general spoke earlier today about this uncert