for a long time. he uses maybe one part of his leadership. he was up one day then the other day, pushback on somebody else. kind of the classic divide and rule. i think prigozhin was a handy tool for him to put pressure on shrug you, maybe you blame shrug you or others for what was happening. but it is obviously gunning out of control. he thought he could control, now he can t. how does this and do you think? like i said, i think in the short term he will be able to squash this. but in the long term, dictators, it s when that shrink in the armor shows that things start to change. he has control moscow through fear for 20 years, just like in eastern me in other places. once they start to change, people become not afraid anymore. or they see the possibility of change, then things may spiral out of control for dictator. this is a really dangerous time for people. all right, thank you so much for your expertise. we appreciate the time. it is the most dramatic threat so fa
calling a rebellion. not from ukrainian supporters trite russian mercenary fighters for the group claiming control the russian city of rostov on don. that is been fighting your gratings at a cost of more than 20000 russian soldiers lives. it s leader blames many of those deaths on russian military leaders. and now that later has set his sights on them. not a coup he says about a march for justice. here is what is remarkable. his troops are already 60 miles into russia. they are setting their sites much further. reason enough for vladimir putin to call for his arrest. but citizens on alert. confusing for ukraine and the turning point for a war in the world. welcome everyone i am neil cavuto. man oh man fast moving develops overnight. the latest in kyiv. we ve been tracking last 24 hours with potential ramifications for this war and maybe it much more. the biggest challenge to russian president vladimir putin during his time in power, an attempted coup, an armed uprising you na
bases. russian ally and neighbor in belarus helped broker a deal with prigozhin, to escalate the situation. prigozhin agreed to leave russia for asylum batters, but not before getting a heroes sendoff from russian residents. [crowd chanting] [sound of gunfire] nbc news correspondent ali arouzi joins me now, live from london. ali, thank you for being here. the situation in russia has changed dramatically in the last 24 hours, what s happening there now? jonathan, it has been an extraordinary 24 hours of mayhem, mutiny. and as quickly as all of this began, it ended. in a nutshell, where are we? the wagner group probably will be incorporated into the russian defense ministry, prigozhin is in exile in neighboring belarus, and vladimir putin is still in power, considerably weaker. and it is really extraordinary what unfolded in russia. very extraordinary how it all started. look at the beginning of the day, vladimir putin made that statement on television, visibly angry, calli
challenge to russian president vladimir putin s iron grip on the country. this weekend, one of his closest allies yevgeny prigozhin leader of the wagner mercenary group turned against him, staging a 24-hour revolt. prigozhin mobilized his army of soldiers for hire to march on moscow and suddenly he turned around and called it. off and be sears kier simmons is in moscow with the latest. years in russia tonight, state television is not showing these stunning images. russians cheering for the leader of this week s aborted rebellion. his soldiers as they leave the city of rostov-on-don. their mutiny is bringing the country to the brink of chaos less than 24 hours ago when yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the wagner group had a march to moscow and response to what he called an attack on his fighters. tanks and mercenary troops took to the streets, moving within 120 miles of the russian capital. before unprecedented deal with president putin, it was brokered by another presiden
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