is he well? is he still alive? has he been taken under house there s all kinds of conspiracy theories going on right now. i would bet that mr. putin is in a very safe place, continuing to execute his duties. the problem is, this personality dynamic, as matthew said, and as oren said, between prigozhin, putin, the defense ministry s shoygu, the general in charge of all the army, all the subordinate generals, others that were on telegram channels this evening, you know those are the kind of personality dynamics that has only hurt russia since the very beginning of this war. one other thing, if i may. i was in moscow in 1994, a year after the last coup where a tank actually fired on that white building of the film that you were showing. the russian parliament. it was the last coup they had. general sheboygan, who is
rostov is about 200 miles away from moscow. you don t create a coup outside of a capital city where putin is and holding court. but this comes at a horrible time. all afternoon long, you ve seen russian generals get on telegram channels saying, prigozhin, don t do what you re doing right now, it s going to be harmful to what we do. you see the map of rostov outside the border of ukraine. and again, to the northeast of that is the capital of moscow. it would take a long time for prigozhin and his troops to do something within the capital city where a coup is normally formulated. but you have all these generals, russian generals on telegram channels today saying, prigozhin, don t do this, it s only going to hurt our cause, the ukrainians are coming to our zero line, which what is they call their final defensive lines, we have control, don t mess with them now. the problem is with that, alison, there s a whole different subset between russian