lines at this tough war against ukraine and who spoke truth to power over and over and over in a way that putin allowed. i think then he was faced with prigozhin holding the wagner gun to his head, the possibility of open warfare on the outskirts of moscow that made them both blink, but we have to measure the importance of prigozhin in how putin reacted to him. he didn t go to that open warfare, he blinked, he let him live another day. really is interesting to see what he did, but why he did it and what happens with it still very much unknown. david sanger, how can ukraine and perhaps the united states or the western alliance exploit this, or can they? well, they re going to certainly try. i thought it was interesting that on the u.s. side president biden was on the phone to all of the allies with a singular message, which is everybody stay
well, i think clearly putin is weakened. his government is weakened. the irony is that his junior partner in belarus, lukashenko had to bail him out of this. prigozhin kept his life and lost his wagner group and he should be careful around open windows in his new location where he s going. clearly prigozhin lost his nerve. he was within roughly two hours drive of the outskirts of moscow where they were starting to prepare a defensive positions. this rebellion, although it had some applause along the way, didn t appear to be generating the kind of support that he had hoped it would. and, again, he decided to take the deal. he gave up this effort. so a stunning series of developments. in the meantime, putin fled moscow, reportedly. didn t stay around. and we haven t seen anything of putin s minister of defense or chief of the general staff,
for now, sort of essentially stay off the streets. so that key highway south to the capital certainly bracing, it is unclear at this point the volume of wagner traffic moving up there, and quite where it is going, but pictures indeed have emerged on the outskirts of moscow, troops setting up positions on the sandbags. so startling scenes. you couldn t even possibly begin to imagine were imaginable last year, before this began. and in fact, a key adviser, a key partner of the putin cabinet, head of the foreign intelligence service, has just put out a statement condemning what he refers to as the armed attempted rebellion. it cannot be justified by any prior achievements. essentially pointing towards how the wagner group has been behind a lot of the most intense fighting around the strategic city around bakhmut and putin putting out a message saying
russia needs to unify. the ultimate question here is what exactly the military will do. and whether they really want to take on the wagner group, often ex-soldiers themselves, and quite whether or not, no matter how big it is, will be stopped before the outskirts of moscow. extraordinary scenes here. truly extraordinary. very historic. i must say. because we don t know what the end result of this is going to be. it is a huge, huge question right now. nick paton walsh, stand by. we will get back to you. it this is just the beginning in russia, a message from the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. coming up how this dramatic power struggle in russia right now could affect the country s war effort. stay with us. k, associated british ports can now precisely orchestrate nearly 600,000 vehicles passing through their uk port every year. don t jujust connect your business. (docock worker) right on time. (vo) make it even s smarter. we call this enterprise intelligence. - this is my co
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