so, you know, things moving and changing all the time. extremely unsettling developments, certainly within russia, both politically and, of course, in terms of the military leadership there. events over the weekend unfolded rapidly. on friday, yevgeny prigozhin releases a video stepping up his feud with russia s military top brass. for the first time he questions putin s justification for invading ukraine. in response, russia s fsb security service opened a criminal case against him. by saturday, wagner fighters enter the southern russian city of rostov on don. they quickly take control of the all important army headquarters. under intense, pressure vladimir putin makes a televised address. he accuses prigozhin of treason and a stab in the back . he urges a consolidation of all forces. reports say wagner mercenary troops are heading north in a convoy. some estimates predict they will reach moscow by saturday evening. russian soldiers set up defence positions around moscow, according
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is also to make an appearance since the bone sees the week including hired fighters running rampant through his country seem to have damaged his reputation and his government stability ukrainian officials try to take advantage of the confusion to make inroads as well. president zelenskyy tweedy spoke with president biden saying they discuss the hostilities process is taking place in russia. zelenskyy thanking the president for unflagging support. meanwhile in a square and kyiv locals look at russian military wreckage placed there as a reminder of past battles and ponder the weekend s events. take a listen. exit is good. of course. we need more and russian fraternization brick works definitely they were not going to reach moscow in something like that for wanted wagner to succeed? we want unstable situation in russia. unstable? what s unstable for. tell a story like a russian but they tried to do.
bracing for trouble provide a report in branding the actions treason. no outward coming from first the office of belarus president on the authority of vladimir putin and that wagner chief has agreed to halt movement of his forces and de-escalate tension. just a couple of minutes go we hear from the wagner boss he confirm this he gave the order for his troops to return to field camps presumably back to ukraine to avoid quote the risk of blood being spilled for the very least it means those forces that were just about to reach moscow will be turning around. still again developments in last half hour still a lot of questions where does everything stand? what about the wagner forces that took over that city in southeastern russia? what happens with them? what is vladimir putin s reaction? did he make any concessions remember prigozhin was very critical of the russian military brass.
is, you know, trump was hovering around the 45% level in these polls in the last election. can he get higher than that? because i think that s going to be important. and how high can biden go in these polls? but i think for a while now, it s going to be stable. i don t think you re going to see a whole lot of movement in the direction of one candidate or another. so, desantis numbers are quite the same. basically a tie. and it s been that way for some months. i expect it s going to stay that way until late in this campaign. david axelrod, appreciate it, thanks. all right. good to see you. coming up, a look at a ukrainian company building combat drones. according to the company, the owner could reach moscow, which saw it s first drone attack earlier this week. fred pleitgen is in ukraine, joins us next.