stopped his advance on moscow and apparently pulled at least some fighters out of rostov-on-don. they had made to it within 120 miles of the capital when they suddenly decided to turn around. the kremlin saying they have putin s word he can go safely to belarus free from prosecution. you can see him being cheered by the folks. they even went to shake his hand. prigozhin saying he made the deal because he didn t want to shed russian blood. translator: therefore, russian blood would be shed from one of the sites we turn our column around and turn in the opposite direction according to the plan. we also see here some of his departing fighters who seem to get some cheers from residents as they stood on top of the tanks. so we have full team coverage for you over the next hour. our team of correspondents and guests. i start with nic robertson. so prigozhin has been seething at russian leadership. he s been saying for months, attacking the defense minister shoigu and others. he
that didn t happen and therefore, that was one of the reasons he realized? or he had a sense that he had overreached? there are so many things we don t know. it is hard to imagine him thinking that he could go to moscow with the troops he had. what would have been his plan to try to surround the ministry of defense and arrest or kill the defense minister? it seems hard to imagine. i mean, to be clear, we are guessing here. we don t have the inside information. i certainly don t have access to intelligence. it seems that our intelligence community was aware that prigozhin was planning something and the guys had a used to work there and followed the open cat intelligence, they also indicated that they thought he was planning something. so i think that prigozhin is not stupid. he probably thought he had lined up more support. the fact that he got as far as he got tells me he had some
critiques were probably valid. we re mind-reading here but he couldn t have completely unhappy to see this thorn in their side. then it got to the point where it got too close. yesterday, we were reading on telegram as prigozhin announces that if he doesn t get a meeting with gerasimov and shoigu, he s marching to moscow. and then started doing exactly that. it was only then that putin comes out and gives a speech and calls him a traitor. yeah. it s just been an extraordinary 24 hours. this is still so much to learn about what we have just witnessed and obviously, so much to look at what will be coming in the next 24, 48 hours. appreciate your time tonight. thank you. i want to thank everyone for joining me on this special edition of 360. jim acosta picks up cnn next in
them going at each other so they were not turning, you know, they were divided and they did not unite and turn against vladimir putin. a way to keep the people around him warring with each other as opposed to threatening the leader. i think that was a piece of it. i think there was another part of it as well. which is, putin can t be very happen with the defense minister, shoigu, or with gerasimov because they were the ones who put together the plan to take oh kyiv and had to abandon that. they were the ones who went down to plan b, go back to the south and east, and that s where the counteroffensive is happening. they re the ones who did not count on the degree to which the ukrainians would rise up or the west, nato, the united states, would support them. so my guess is that putin had some sympathies with prigozhin and felt that some of his
the same day in the same place, and try to create a small riot. they did this in texas. they did it in other places. so satisfied that forward seven years and he he s using telegram, a widely used messaging app, and social media app as well. and he is announcing each of his moves but he s also using it to declare that the defense ministry, the defense minister, general gerasimov, the chief of staff of the russian armed forces are corrupt and incompetent. the amazing thing is, until today, he didn t get shut down. yeah. it is, we were talking about this with others earlier. that vladimir putin allowed him to have this with this top defense officials and to have