lukashenko, speaking out as prigozhin himself settles in. the wagner group leader is in belarus after a failed mutiny in russia. but he s not saying much and has no plans to. he doesn t want to, as you just heard there, speak to nobody including vladimir putin. prigozhin might want to lay low. david petraeus still recommends he be careful around open windows. the general is here. first, fox team coverage in kyiv on how ukraine is capitalizing on the chaos and jennifer griffin in washington on how the pentagon is responding to the chaos. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. let s get to it with greg first in ukraine. greg? hi, neil. first, a reminder that russia is still very much in this war. the eastern ukrainian town slammed by a russian missile. big damage done. this as putin put a spin on it. he called the wagner mercenary group blackmail, doomed to failure. in belarus, president lukashenko who helped strike a deal in dark terms. if he said if russian
now. our second hour star welcome . i m yasmin vossoughian, if you just running, as welcome. if you re sticking with, us we re thankful for that. we have got a lot of developments in russia, as the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, says his mercenary group is turning back and abandoning s march towards moscow. he made that announcement after the president of belarus claimed he held talks with prigozhin. i want to bring in nbc s met in standing back and trying. this math, you heard this thing firsthand. talk us through what you heard from prigozhin, the revelation of this, quote unquote, deal. thank you, yasmin. obviously, very shocking development, after what has been, as we ve discussed, very astonishing 24 hours in russia. we had another audio message from prigozhin. he speaks very intensely, always, part of his charm, for lack of better word. we saw that again in this latest message, also a little bit taking a step back. he s admitting that he stepping down
neil. lukashenko said most of the russian nuclear weapons being deployed to his country have arrived and he says that he s sharing control with moscow. now that s concerning. back to you. neil: thank you. greg palkot. let s to to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. they just wrapped up a briefing. jennifer? this is the first on-camera briefing that we ve had at the pentagon since the thwarted rebellion by prigozhin and the wagner group. after 24 hours of not knowing where prigozhin was, the man that rose to fame as putin s chef has reportedly now been seen in belarus. that according to the president of belarus that brokered the deal between putin and prigozhin. here s brigadier general pat ryder moments ago. it s an internal russian matter. during his calls, secretary austin reiterated that support by the united states for ukrainian will not change and
at least immediately, it would show that he s basically capitulating to prigozhin s demands. that s not going to show an image of strength and being in control. i do not think that is going to be able to forgive prigozhin, even though he s not named him explicitly. but prigozhin certainly has cast his lot. if putin is going to restore this image of strength, which i think he really wants to, and he relies on that image, he always has, he s going to have to take action against prigozhin. which maybe the rest or something else. this situation is still unfolding. i think there s still a lot of uncertainty. one of the things that putin has to determine is, who can he trust at this point? i m sure, over the last 24 hours, he was asking that question. which members of his inner circle, as well as which military commanders was he going to be able to trust. be able to put down what it would look like a rebellion by prigozhin. for a long time, he thought that he could trust prigozhin. obvious