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
he s a leader of the wagner group, which are soldiers for hire, violent mercenaries with reputation for ruthless violence. they have fought for russia in ukraine and in conflicts across central africa in the middle east. saturday, prigozhin stage in our midst mutiny leading his mercenaries on a march that threatened to reach moscow coming within about 120 miles of the capitol. the crisis ended when prigozhin agreed to pull back his forces in a deal it allowed him to leave russia and avoid arrest. well rebellion appear to be aimed at ousting russia s military leaders, they dealt a massive brew blow to putin strongman image. we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go and when they get there but certainly we have also have new questions that putin is going to be addressing in the weeks and months ahead. this is a challenge coming from within to putin and that s where his focus has been. it s going to unfold over weeks and
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
group leader yevgeny prigozhin striking a deal to avoid criminal charges. but in exchange she was forced to leave russia for neighboring belarus. locals taken to the streets cheering as a rebel commander left for exile. they even snapped a few selfies with supporters on the way out. he was secretary of state entity blinken sees this rebellion as a site of russia is weakening. what we have seen his extraordinary pre-think about it this way 16 months ago rush up for the doorstep of kyiv in ukraine. believing they would take the capitol the matter of days and race the country from the map as independent country. now what we have seen is russia having to defend moscow, its capitol gets mercenaries of its own making. live fox team coverage on this, lucas tomlinson jeff paulson bias in this fox news contributor scanner here at the and what could happen next. first let s go live it to kyiv seen for affairs correspondent greg palko with the very latest there on the ground. hi e
inside russia. right now vladimir putin is still in charge. in fact, he might have just spoken for the first time since the attempted rebellion over the weekend. we ll tell you what he said and why there are questions about when and where this new video of putin the kremlin released this morning has come from. it has been a confusing and volatile 72 hours. longtime ally yevgeny prigozhin began and quickly called off an attempt to overtake the military leaders. how close did he get? why suddenly did he turn around? putin is known for viciously crushing dissent. why exactly did he let prigozhin go? the warlord hasn t been publicly seen or heard from since he apparently fled on saturday. we have reporters in moscow, ukraine and the white house along with experts on russia, putin and prigozhin. whatever happens in russia will have a profound impact not just on the stability of that country, but far-reaching consequences for the war in ukraine and well beyond that. it can affect