they could all agree on. president biden really did make the point that he didn t want to provide putin with this rationale. so you have heard mostly silence from those leaders. but as you mentioned, u.s. intelligence has been tracking this sort of dynamic for months really as far back as january. we heard from white house officials, intelligence official, that they did detect this power struggle between the russian ministry of defense and the wagner group. and an official said at the time that they expected it to point, they expected it to escalate. certainly it did over the course of the last few weeks, american intelligence officials have briefed officials at the white house and at the pentagon that they did see head of the wagner group making preparations to take the steps that he eventually did take. they also briefed members of congress on this. but at the same time, i think that people at the white house were caught off guard by how quickly this escalated over the
russia right now after mercenary chief yevgeny prigozhin called off his insurrection against the military. kremlin says he cut a deal to stop his forces from advancing to moscow in an armied convoy as part of the agreement, the m mercenaries will not face criminal charges. prigozhin has also agreed to leave russia and move to belarus. russians watching television this weekend saw reports of unrest on their streets while the coverage was far from comprehensive, it stands in stark contrast to the 1991 soviet coup attempt. official russian tv played a recorded video of swan lake now. but now moscow tried to turn off the internet spigot. paula newton reports from ottawa. reporter: the kremlin wanted to control that narrative today and to that end, it seems that they did try to block news sites
home. you will remember the partial mobilization and there were demonstrations against that. we know of course that there has been anger about the economic impact on the war and now this. something that president putin himself called an armed insurrection, something that the kremlin said could be the threat of blood shed, of russians on russians on russian soil. how do you come back from all of that. there is just so much here to break down. but in the meantime you will see a president putin who will try to stabilize and strengthen his position and demonstrate that he is very much in control despite everything that has unfolded. salma, thank you. and kevin liptak is following the reaction in washington to this extraordinary situation. and it does feels as though politicians were very much called out by what happened yesterday. yeah, very much so. and i think the question that is being asked in washington is
they have been blindsided by prigozhin s ability to play this out in public and they have not been seen at all the whole time this has happened. so i think in terms of morale, it is certainly not going to get people more excited about fighting in the russian army. russian army that couldn t stop these guys from driving most of the way to moscow pretty much unimpeded. shot down a number of helicopters. there are estimates of between 13 and 20 russian service men were killed. so now they will get off scot-free and russian government is not doing anything about it. thank you so much for your insight today. and still to come, wagner insurrection didn t give ukraine reprieve from the onslaught of missile and drone attacks. we ll show you that damage next. good thing adding lylysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteteria that detergents leave behind. clean is good, sasanitized is better. introducing the limiteted
on the internet. net blocks which monitors censorship said beginning friday night google news along with other news sites were blocked. having said that, there were other messaging apps that seemed to work on and off. and all of this is part of the kremlin s desire really to control the narrative not just for this event, but really since the invasion started in ukraine. having said that, many people in russia are quite savvy about trying to get around those controls. the last couple days though have been much different. and you wonder now whether or not the kremlin, russian regime, may try to restrict the internet even more going forward, trying to control the flow of information as much as it can. and i will say that even since the invasion of ukraine began, even though russians can receive a lot of news flow, the issue here is that they can t comment on anything that they see. if they are seemed to be saying something against the russian regime, sweechb ewe ve seen