ukrainian president administration says the insurrection almost nullified putin. in a tweet he criticized the wagner chief for turning his forces around from a march toward moscow and reaching that apparent deal. kyiv also took advantage of the chaos in russia. the country s deputy defense minister says they launched simultaneous counter offenses in multiple directions on saturday. for civilians across ukraine, the chaos that infolded in russia seemed to change little about the war, as russian troops launched more missile attacks across the country. ukrainian air defenses intercepted 41 out of 51 russian cruise missiles and two iranian-made drones on saturday. that s according to ukrainian state media. at least three residents were killed in kyiv. more than a dozen injured after falling missile brelanded on an apartment building. an overnight russian missile
charges for that. yeah, that yeah, that s fascinating stuff. i wanted to ask you, ivan, putin has always been seen as a tough man. he deals with critics in a tough way. you go to jail for calling it a war or for criticizing the military. but here he did a deal with a man he blamed for an insurrection, a treason just a day ago. what does that do to his standing, the respect, his control? reporter: well, one of the arguments that i think the kremlin has made is we did this to avert bloodshed and to avert the specter of civil war. so for the short-term you did not have this potentially catastrophic scenario of thousands of mercenaries who had fought hard in the trenches of ukraine, who have seen their comrades die and whose ranks are
engage in nuclear sabre-rattling throughout the course of the ukraine war. u.s. officials have been concerned that any escalation, any threat to president putin as a result of what happens on the battlefield could potentially lead him to feeling like he needs to assert his power and use those nuclear capabilities. but of course, at this moment in time, the threats to his power are not coming from ukrainian aggressions on the battlefield, they re coming from internal divisions within russia s fighting force. but still, he is presented with a situation that is threatening to his standing, to his power, presenting questions about what he could potentially do with russia s nuclear capabilities. we should note that just earlier this month, president putin said that russia had moved some of its tactical nuclear weapons into belarus. a state department spokesperson confirmed what u.s. officials are saying, saying that there has been no change to the
and the only way for him to do that is to really crack down on information in russia. and that probably means cutting russia off from the internet. wow. that would be quite something. because i guess regardless of how this ends, i m curious how much would pregigozhin s claims there were many, but the main one, the reasons for the war were manufactured, a lie. how much would that hurt his credibility with the people? there would be a lot of angry mothers, i imagine? no, i think that s completely inconsequential. that s, you know the way propaganda works is creating chaos, creating instability of ideas and projecting the idea that nothing is knowable. in that sense, prigozhin s statements just go into that same melting pot of contradictory claims. that doesn t make a huge difference. but what makes a difference is
plot to take him out, and they really did want to avoid that because that is a play book that putin has used in the past. and so president biden, he was updated. he did leave for camp david around midday today. and he did bring with him the national security advisor, jake sullivan. so certainly he s being briefed very regularly on this. but i think the question that he and his officials will want to look at now is really what does president putin s grip on power currently look like? does this change anything in terms of his ability to lead russia? and i think that is something that they will really want to take a very close look at. this is certainly a very volatile moment in the 16 months since this war began, michael. indeed, it is thank you. kevin liptak there in washington following things for us. stay with us. when we come back how did the russian media cover the wagner rebellion as it unfolded? also one of the questions at