rostov is about 200 miles away from moscow. you don t create a coup outside of a capital city where putin is and holding court. but this comes at a horrible time. all afternoon long, you ve seen russian generals get on telegram channels saying, prigozhin, don t do what you re doing right now, it s going to be harmful to what we do. you see the map of rostov outside the border of ukraine. and again, to the northeast of that is the capital of moscow. it would take a long time for prigozhin and his troops to do something within the capital city where a coup is normally formulated. but you have all these generals, russian generals on telegram channels today saying, prigozhin, don t do this, it s only going to hurt our cause, the ukrainians are coming to our zero line, which what is they call their final defensive lines, we have control, don t mess with them now. the problem is with that, alison, there s a whole different subset between russian
it could eventually see him jailed in what would be a dramatic fall from grace for one of the country s most prominent and outspoken figures. he s been in russia s high command, routinely accusing the defense minister and the country s defense chief of incompetence. in the hours before the alleged attack on the wagner cavern, prigozhin posted more comments on social media accusing the defense ministry of deceiving president putin, about the threat posed by ukraine ahead of his february 2022 invasion. he also questioned russia s invasion motives for the war. moscow s been placed on high alert and prigozhin has said there s going to be a march for justice against russian officials he said were responsible for attacking wagner. while his mercenary forces are said to be now entering the southern russian region of rostov. matthew chance, thank you for the update. oren lieberman is live at the
factors inside of russia that s giving them information. they have satellite imagery of any kind of troop movements, so if prigozhin really is moving, we probably have a pretty good feel for that. they have what s called mazen, signals intelligence, reading their mail. all these things give the best-equipped intelligence in the united states with accurate information of what s happening. by the way, great question. i m sure we re sharing quite a bit of that with the ukrainian government. if prigozhin does do this, if this is real and prigozhin does is angry enough to retaliate, who has the upper hand? the wagner group and his fighters? or the russian military? yeah, that s a great question. because the prigozhin-wagner group has been fighting very well on the front lines. they have been somewhat successful, though as we ve reported, much as been a meat grinder. they ve been throwing soldiers to their deaths.
these allegations. they have not beened, still being investigated. well, for example would you like david weiss to testify? yes, i would like that. for example, a payoff alleged, about $5 million from ukraine. also emails in hunter biden s laptop that potentially corroborated that $5 million payment. so that s why i m saying that this ought to be investigated, and we re going to follow the facts where they lead us. i think the key word is alleged. a reminder, this was a trump-appointed u.s. attorney handling this investigation. we ll see if he comes to the hill. merrick garland says he ll respond to that. thank you for your time tonight, congresswoman. thank you. we re tracking major developments out of russia. cnn tonight with camerada starts right now. good evening. i m alison camerato. we have breaking news on a chaotic situation in russia. there are reports of military vehicles on the streets in moscow right now. the russian military is accusing
social media that he says shows that the wagner camp was hit by a russian military strike. other than this video, is there any evidence of that russian attack on prigozhin s troops? reporter: not that we re aware of. that s part what was makes this so difficult to know what s happening there. you have three different bases of power essentially. there are more, but three big ones. prigozhin and his wagner mercenary group. you have russia and its state media. then you have the russian ministry of defense. unfortunately, none of those are reliable sources of information, especially not at a time like this. prigozhin himself has lied and exaggerated and contorted. russian state media as we ve seen the past year and a half or more has put out essentially its own narrative and version of events. the russian ministry of defense has barely put out any reliable information on ukraine. it s incredibly difficult to try to parse through all of this and understand exactly what s happening.