victory through all the resources they need. i guess we don t have a war with this high degree of instability in the system. i think those are the things that first come to mind. colonel vindman, how credible is the kremlin s statement issued through russian state media, that amnesty would be offered to prigozhin? and that his troops who didn t take up arms would be folded into the russian military? eight hours ago he called them, describe it as treason. that seems highly unrealistic. we are not clearly seeing everything that is happening behind the curtain. i think prigozhin likely, you know, demanded he had a critical position of strength. he demanded that shoigu and gerasimov, be removed and replaced with competent generals. he likely demanded the freedom of operation for the wagner forces, and suffered in a part of the ministry of defense.
specifically the war in ukraine. the u.s. support for it, and all of his conversations. but he always seems to add that there is a lot more that he knows, that he doesn t want to say. that he doesn t want to speculate on. that he doesn t want to weigh in, or wait into too far, because he doesn t want to also make this appearance that he is predicting anything. hypothetical, before it happens. but u.s. officials have been monitoring this very closely. again, just the fact that something like this could take place didn t seem to surprise the officials that i was talking to. but they also spoke to how nervous they were about the far reaching implications of something like this, given how wild it could get. and still, frankly, since we don t really know what happens next here, that nicolle. it s such an interesting point, all those travel adjustments, should we say. and the track record. u.s. intelligence has predicted, privately and publicly, just about every move that russia would make
shrug you, or chief of the general staff that part of the deal and get removed. the next thing would be starting to do some deeper defending, this is what the national security council probably already plans for. or at least should have, in part. which, is what happens next? we have now entered a very, very delicate portion in russia s scaling war in ukraine. it s going to be increasingly erratic and potentially there will be a lot more infections in fighting. it wasn t just prigozhin wagner troops. there seem to be some, at least tentative, ten u.s. support from other elements within the security establishment. those are going to have to be rooted out. we are in a very, very delicate, scary time. at the same time, ukrainians are likely seizing the opportunity, and likely making significant gains. this is an opportunity to help wind down this war relatively quickly. fully enable ukraine to have a
in general has been connecting this war. they have, probably when the tougher sector was responsible for an offensive that the russians were conducting over the course of the winter. they were the only sector that made any gains. these are hardened troops that, it s a combination of special ops ex military special operations forces. airborne forces. a whole lot of russian prisoners, that have been hardened in either years of experience in wars in the middle east and africa, or in this war in ukraine, fighting in his very, very tough sector. the rest of the picture that russia had the rest of the battlefield, the vast majority of the frontline, and didn t manage to make any gains over the course of their offensive. wagner gets a lot of credit for that. one other thing i d just like to make a point about, this is an enormously important period in this war.