this after president putin promised decisive action against what he calls treason. hello, everyone, and welcome to the a special hour of fox news live. i m arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, everyone, i m eric shawn. fast-breaking developments that have a lot of people wondering what is really going on? some say it was a challenge to vladimir putin s decades-long grip on power. the head of the wagner group, a longtime kremlin ally, of course, but he s been increasingly recently critical of russia s military in recent weeks. he has said his forces seized key russian facilities near the ukrainian border and advanced farther north to other strategic cities, inching closer to moscow. but now those mercenaries holding fast, told to return to their field bases back in ukraine. general jack keane on fox news earlier before the order to the halt that march. and this is a surprise. there s nothing planned about this in terms of russian intelligence i m aware of and its ability
withdrawing there from ukraine, since 2025 the ,000 or so left 25 the ,000 or so left, kyiv has been launching offensives against the russian troops. do you think that gives them a new opening to gain territory, or could that only be temporary? is. i do. i m not surprised they re trying to take advantage of in this. and president zelenskyy gave a speeched today, it was a very strong speech. and what he talked about is that there s chaos in russia. the russian government can t be trusted not to create chaos. he talked about the fact that putin is most scared about the hate and violence that he himself unleashed in russia, and he can t control it. it s boomeranging back at him. for those who are keeping track, it might be confusing because in the last 36 hours we saw prigozhin and the wagner group march on moscow, now apparently they turned back with. but what it shows is that putin is vulnerable and that there s a chance for the, for russian
as fighting continues to rage across the country. the taliban have been launching offensives on multiple fronts. these pictures are of the aftermath of the attack on the defence minister s home in kabul. neither he nor his family were there. but there were extraordinary scenes in kabul as the gun battles were taking place, with hundreds of people coming on to the streets chanting their support for government forces and denouncing the militants. for more on this, i am joined now by daniel davis, retired us colonel and a senior fellow at the national security think tank defense priorities. good to have you on the programme with us, mr davis. with us, mr davis. thanks for having me. how long before the taliban are in majority control of the country? i guess i would differfrom many people and think that is still very much up for debate as to whether
which in essence restepped into the middle of to try to bring some stability, try to bring some democracy, to try to bring so some better life, prospects, rights for women, all the things that were delivered here. as soon as the united states is gone, it is back to the civil war, and it is the taliban picking up again. i can t underemphasize what al qaeda and its relationship with the taliban was back in 2001. the taliban always said they weren t anything to do with us, but al qaeda had given the taliban a gift of sending the suicide bomber to kill the last outstanding commander holding up against them. today, the taliban are launching offensives. in this city, you talk to people now, they re worried about what s around the corner, how the taliban are going to treat them. they feel they re in a moment where the taliban is being
any imminent taliban pressure. that would be one of the last things they would do. there s a number of other cities we ve already talked about who are launching offensives. we ve also seen the taliban offensives in the northeast in the country and the northwest, so the taliban, one would imagine, would go through what they might concede as being an easier target, though as of yet, they ve not been able to everin yet, they ve not been able to ever in this entire 20 year insurgency cash capture and hold a single city. the worry is that it s only a matter of time before that happens. afghan porpoises doing their utmost to prevent that afghan forces. kemal kirisci is a senior fellow at the brookings institute and has written about the mass exodus that s happening as the taliban s control expands. he told me more about the displacement of people there. we must not forget that afghans, after syrians and venezuelans, constitute the largest group of refugees