good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m katy tur here from new york. and i m chris jansing with special coverage on what is happening inside russia. for the first time, we are still waiting to hear from vladimir putin. now, we haven t heard anything since his former ally and the head of the ruthless mercenary wagner group attempt add revolt, and this new video released by russia, is it new or just something put out by the kremlin? who knows when it was taped. we can t say. and where is the man responsible for the dramatic weekend events, yevgeny prigozhin. right now we still don t know and he hasn t been seen since saturday when he decided to turn his forces back after marching toward the kremlin. and seemingly agreed to live in exile in belarus. so now russia, a country armed with more nuclear weapons than any other nation led by a man desperate to proclaim the old soviet union glory is at a crossroads. and while the world watches, ukraine is acting. ukrainian forces
putin being irrevocably undermined, putin being on the way out. putin being in deep trouble. yeah, this was an uncomfortable little incident to say the least, but i would be very cautious with thinking that we are close to the end of vladimir putin. so is your implication that prigozhin misread the situation or do you buy his statement that he was worry that russia was killing its own people and he was just doing this as a protest. he never meant this as a coup? i think he s been very angry, genuinely angry. i think the troops that were sent to the front at the beginning of the war, they were woefully inequipped and the organization of the invasion was criminally inept. so i think prigozhin has had every reason to be angry. quite what he intended, he didn t use the word coup.