towards moscow. and when the wagner group was leaving, they were cheering in the crowds. so if you are inside the kremlin right now, how worried are you? we are extremely worried. we ve been watching over the last few months, with the development of a lot of private military contractors, we saw the special forces, this is starting to feel like the godfather a little bit, as these different factions can protect their own investments. one thing we are watching is the long chevy of prigozhin. in the long time, this could mean protected forces within the kremlin, and if he does not survive, you are going to see a lack of trust and deep division
rubber stamp that. let s be clear here. when there s legislation going through the duma, that s what putin wants. it looks like prigozhin s military fighters will have to sign up for the military. that caveat, we don t know what else is involved in the deal or even if that was part of the deal. i think that s where it s going. it tries to join up and unify the growth that private military contractors have become major and powerful and rich. rich elements of fighting the war in ukraine. an important point, as well. u.s. officials were surprised russia s military didn t do a better job of confronting the wagner forces on the march towards the capital. where is the defense minister and defense minister in all of this? that s a significant issue.
The owner of Russia s shadowy Wagner private military contractor is making his most direct challenge yet to the Kremlin, calling for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting the nation s defense minister. Security services reacted by opening a criminal investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin and calling for his arrest, with some calling his latest move “madness” and one that threatens to unleash a civil war.
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prigozhin, and yet we have seen this friction with what appears to be an increasing frequency. in fact, just early last week, russia s ministry of defense said that private contractors, military contractors would have to sign contracts to try to bring them in line with russian military leadership and the russian military itself, and it was prigozhin who said that wagner would not be doing that. and so you see that leading into this friction here as the u.s. watches this, alex. yeah, the u.s., and certainly the rest of nato, are going to be watching this very, very closely. next very much. let s get more now with our military and russian experts, colonel cedrick lang. thank you very much. i want to go to you first. you say that prigozhin massively overreached today. you re comparing this to gang warfare. this is very different than what prigozhin has said before . it is an escalation. what do you think is behind it? well, what prigozhin has been doing for months now is criticizing,