the person who could balance the power of the oligarchs in the country. that clearly is no longer true. we have known that his sort of supreme military planning skills have fallen apart over the past year and a half in ukraine and here to have this massive dissent on russia streets, a huge military armed force essentially coming to take battle with his own army, again just shows weakness and also shows the weakness within the military. the structures within the military are riddled with private military contractors like wagner, for the soldiers at the bottom end of these structures, it s unclear who their lines of command are. so it reveals also a flawed and weak russian military more so than i think we had any idea until yesterday. good point. nic robertson, thank you very much. we will get back to you soon. i want to go to our senior international correspondent fred
challenge in dealing with the fallout from the uprising. wolf blitzer again is with us from london. it was remarkable, wolf, a remarkable couple of days, putin faced this very real threat of armed insurrection and then it ended. you re right, victor and amara. it was truly an historic moment where once again covering all out impact and the response to the rebellion in russia. reporters and analysts around the world are standing by. cnn is your national diplomatic editor nic robertson first. what do we know about the situation in russia right now? how tense is? reporter: it s less tense than it was. we know that prigozhin s forces that were driving to moscow reportedly are on their way back to base. the highway there still the main highway linking rostov-on-don in the south to moscow is still not