although it more about prigozhin versus the defense minister sergei shoigu. and vladimir putin 23 years of rule in russia, russia processes the largest stock pile of nuclear weapons and that s concerning here in langley and the pentagon. you mentioned so far 50,000 russians soldiers have been lost in this war effort and of course, it s no secret that they re suffering from low morale. we saw a couple of weeks ago a russian soldier pleading for his life from a drone from a ukrainian drone. is it possible that the leader of the wagner group prigozhin, is seizing on that low morale and counting on that? as you just heard from griff and the general, you know, these wagner troops, these mercenaries were ordered by putin into bakhmut to help win that battle, a 11 month bloody
for russia. back to you. griff: greg palkot, live for us in kyiv. thank you. anita: well, griff, for more on this developing story, the first major challenge to putin s decades long rule. alex hogan is live with the very latest and alex, we re certainly watching history unfold here. is there any indication that you see that these mercenaries are going to stop? no, and it appears minute by minute, we re seeing new reports of them moving closer and closer to moscow with now new reports suggesting that the flights out of moscow might be at full capacity already, selling out and what s important, really, to remember when we look and we watch this story is the impact that the wagner group has had for russia s military forces since the war began. this group continues to go in to fight over these small contested towns like bakhmut, seizing them before russia s forces take in and the leader, of course, the man that we ve been talking about since
now. ryan, thank you, we want your insight. what do you make of all of this? well, this is pretty extraordinary to put it lightly. it s something that we haven t seen in the 33 years that i ve been covering russia, with the possible exception of course of the attempted coup in 1991. but this is more dangerous and more unusual, i think, in a lot of waysment you know, the 1990 s were full of a lot of extraordinary events in russia, a lot of chaos. but when vladimir putin came on the scene in late 1999, before he became president in 2000, he basically created an image for himself that he is the ga garantore of peace and political stability, that there will be no more chaos like in the 1990 s. that s been more or less the case since vladimir putin became president in 2000 for the first time. however, since february of last year, since the war began in
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we ve got to leave it there. in the last 10 seconds, fair to say without the wagner group and without the mercenaries, russian can t continue the war in ukraine without them? they can continue the fight, but the question, can they fight successfully? no, you ve got a very good unit, they re weak and lost a lot of forces. but goes back to what s happening with the 58th combined army. you don t have the leadership anymore, taken the leadership out and they ve got a major problem. putin has a major problem. griff: an incredible situation we re tracking here, thank you very much. anita. over to you. anita: thank you, we ll take a closer look at how ukraine may be taking advantage of the chaos in russia. stay tuned for that. when you sleep more deeply, you wake up more energized. introducing purple s new mattresses - our unique gel flex grid draws away heat, helping you fall asleep faster. it relieves pressure for less “ow,” and more “ahhh.” and instantly adapts as you move,