said he called it off to avoid russian bloodshed. he also noted the russian defense ministry had plans for wagner to cease to exist in july, and his movement was designed to preserve his private military company. the purpose of the march was to prevent the destruction of the wagner pmc, and the prosecution of those who made a huge number of mistakes in the course of the special military operation due to their unprofessional actions. the society demanded this. all the soldier who s saw it supported us. reporter: prigozhin has said he is heading to benzlarus, who leader brokered a deal allowing the wagner chief to go into exile without penalty.
directly ascribed to them. so i doubt that they were mercenary group like them is going to go away completely. my guess is that they will try to preserve something. of. it but there are certainly going to be concerned about a group that isn t pulled into the putin s power structure. and that s what s happened here. prigozhin has essentially making money in africa. he had its own military. so it continues to grow and as we found out about a month ago, it s turned out he was potentially selling russian positions in ukraine. or trying to sell them to the ukrainians. so he was operating very independently. so i that i think is one of the reasons why they tried to bring them under the hold of the mlb. but long term, these types of proxy groups and loosely allied government groups give russia a lot of different tactical weapons that they can use throughout the war in this gray zone activity. there are not going away. rex, let me ask you about
not helping your war effort. the difference with prigozhin, he announced it to the world. normally, a military leader who does that wouldn t have long to live in his position, if not long to live at all. but it says something about the clout that prigozhin has, one of the most widely respected and feared and admired, you can be all of that among the russian people, they think he s again a rock star here, and that he in his nationalist ways is bringing russia back to the great nationalist days and he often refers to the greatness of the old soviet union, what we had, what we lost, what we can build again and again, the source of the problem, he says was really an inept military and an inept defense ministry that is centered in rostov-on-don that s now under ostensibly his control. i want to go to lieutenant je jerry boykin, the former delta force commander, an author, and
his wagner supporters do not have political influence inside the inner circle in the kremlin. indeed for the last 1.5 years they have been increasingly critical except for putin so it is very unlikely that prigozhin has, is going to be able to coordinate with some kind of internal group on that front there is probably more stability around. it is coming to about 7:15pm in russia. we are getting reports that throughout the david wagner trips appear to have been moving north towards moscow. the other big is when they get there what happens and what does the army do. keep when they get there what happens and what does the army do. what does the army do. keep in mind in moscow you what does the army do. keep in mind in moscow you have what does the army do. keep in mind in moscow you have special what does the army do. keep in mind in moscow you have special forces - in moscow you have special forces that again are not part of the traditional army. they report up to putin so the expe
this is a major boon to the more ralph the ukrainians. but when they get up to full capacity, they will only have, it s understood, two batteries of patriots. one from germany, and the other from the united states. they are saying that they desperately need more aerial defenses, particularly after the recent attacks that have been focused very heavily on kyiv and in anticipation of what is likely to be a ukrainian summer offensive against russian positions in which control of the air space is going to be absolutely critical. they are continuing to demand or beg the international community for more of these air defenses, and at the same time, continuing to fight very, very bitterly on that eastern front around bakhmut where the leader of the wagner mercenary group prigozhin has said he will be pulling his troops out on may 10th because in his words, they re being starved of the amount of ammunition they need in order to preserve their lives. he claims that they re close to