calling a rebellion. not from ukrainian supporters trite russian mercenary fighters for the group claiming control the russian city of rostov on don. that is been fighting your gratings at a cost of more than 20000 russian soldiers lives. it s leader blames many of those deaths on russian military leaders. and now that later has set his sights on them. not a coup he says about a march for justice. here is what is remarkable. his troops are already 60 miles into russia. they are setting their sites much further. reason enough for vladimir putin to call for his arrest. but citizens on alert. confusing for ukraine and the turning point for a war in the world. welcome everyone i am neil cavuto. man oh man fast moving develops overnight. the latest in kyiv. we ve been tracking last 24 hours with potential ramifications for this war and maybe it much more. the biggest challenge to russian president vladimir putin during his time in power, an attempted coup, an armed uprising you na
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked a former aide of late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine, according to a Kremlin statement on Friday.
pretty, back to you. neil: thank you for that greg. we ll go to the white house were lucas tomlinson is. how they are handling it there in responding to it there, lucas? what s neil former u.s. ambassador to moscow michael mcfall said this is not a civil war inside russia. we ve not heard yet from present invited. we have heard from his top diplomat sank in the statement and a tweet spoke today with g-7 foreign ministers and eat you height representatives are foreign affairs and security policy to discuss the ongoing situation in russia. the united states will stay in close coordination with allies and partners as a situation continues to develop. we have not heard much from the u.s. side we have heard from british intelligence. this feud between getting the wegner group is now escalated to outright military confrontation. prigozhin is calling this a march to freedom on moscow and the reports a convoy is just a few hundred miles away from russia s capitol.
we cannot imagine there be anything less than that. it just seems illogical the two would have had some personal phone calls and top conversations given their history. one wonders what either side said to the others. all these claims going back hate we value you but you ve got to play nice but we had to work together we had the same enemy. you cannot work against us here. that fact is he did not take any action. pushing did not do anything to reign in that minister of defense or the commander of the armed forces did not make no changes appear to be made. so it looked like he taken a hands off approach presumably with prigozhin took things into his own hands. neil: i noticed control of the city rostov on don which is two to 50 miles from the russian capitol moscow. we are told as well some of prigozhin troops are on the march to moscow.
man oh man fast moving develops overnight. the latest in kyiv. we ve been tracking last 24 hours with potential ramifications for this war and maybe it much more. the biggest challenge to russian president vladimir putin during his time in power, an attempted coup, an armed uprising you name it. the man responsible prigozhin. he complained about the war, russian military leadership. russians fired on his forces. that is when he took his fighters about 25000 list tanks, armors, guns to the key southeastern city of rostov on don. they took over the main russian military headquarters there with a demand for the top russian military brass come to him to discuss his complaints. prigozhin threatening to move on