hi there, everyone. i m nicole wallace, thanks for being here with us. we ve got a lot of places you get your news today, we re glad you re joining us. four pm in the east, it s 11 pm in moscow. we re following breaking news this hour, with the latest on the revolt unfolding in russia. and we see news is confirming, yevgeny prigozhin is the head of the wagner group, which is a private mercenary army in russia, that s done a lot of the fighting in the war in ukraine. he has called for his moscow bound convoy to stand down for now. that s only after advancing to within 120 miles of the city of moscow. in the biggest threat to russian president vladimir putin s grip on power that we ve ever seen. prigozhin sent a voice note, signaling that the forces would stand down, saying the group understands, quote, the responsibility for spilling russian blood on one of the sides. we are turning back our convoys, and going back to field camps, according to the plan. this comes just hours a
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No civilians stopped them. russian military didn t stop them. so what does that tell us? i think what we are going to find is the west including the pentagon, to include our intelligence agency, they are going to be dissecting this to see what it really says about this particular maneuver. the other thing is this gives the ukrainians an opportunity to continue to drive that wedge. to drive the wedge in the information campaign, about the distrust, the lack of moral, and the lack of teamwork throughout russia. i think that is what we should be looking at. general twitty, one of the things russian state media put out at the top of the hour was that the wagner troops who did not take up arms would be folded into the russian military. that seems implausible. at best. and combustible at worst. what do you make of what you are hearing from russian state
I just think there is so much uncertainty as to what happened today. what was in that deal? and what things look like going forward. that s so interesting. general twitty, a military expert positive to me just what julie is explaining. he s on the battlefield leading his men. he saw, he saw them stacked the bodies. he saw the horrors of the incompetence of the way the war has been conducted by vladimir putin, and his military officials. does the west, does ukraine and nato make a different calculation about the ability of russia to combat ukraine s latest counter offensive? it hasn t gone well at any point. but how much weaker is the russian military without the wagner group? while they are weaker, and
Tanks on the side of the road and contrast that with what julia is describing. which is the orderly unchallenged convoy to moscow, there is no comparing that. and no denying that the world has now seen the fecklessness of the russian military, and the efficiency of the wagner group. i would agree with you there. i think the russian military is in total disarray. and russia is a disaster right now. on the world stage, by the way. they look back here, a year and a half ago. russia had his status across the world. they have shown themselves to be a disaster across all fronts now. so president putin s reputation has definitely been tarnished. the russian military, where we all thought they were ten feet tall, they ve definitely been tarnished. so, they have nothing to show for their actions in ukraine, but the fact that they are