a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto, and this is cnn s special live coverage of the extraordinary events this weekend out of russia. moscow s red square blocked off again today after the brief but stunning insurrection that s gripped the world, could perhaps weaken vladimir putin s grip on his country. we should note it s far too soon to know. so much we don t know about what led wagner mercenary group leader yevgeny prigozhin to launch a march on moscow and what convinced him to abruptly call it off. and then, it s said, go into exile. u.s. secretary of state tony blinken today called the whole series of events extraordinary, believes it indicates that cracks are emerging in putin s rule. the very latest now from cnn s sam kiley live from london. sam, we re watching russia closely, ukraine, also events in belarus. any developments to indicate to us what s actually happening right now? reporter: well, jim, i think the most stunning development so far is an absence
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is that a safe haven? belarus is basically it s a vassal state. well, it s a vassal state of russia. it s at least a temporary way station, right? he could leave. prigozhin could depart and rejoin his wagner forces elsewhere. they re in yemen. they re in syria. they re in africa. they re in ukraine. they are in ukraine. i don t know how that s going to work when you ve got the military force, which is the russian military force, which has clearly demonstrated its incompetence. how will wagner force integrate itself into the russian force? i find that a very, very difficult task. with a question about who s actually running things. major general spider marx, thanks so much as always. president biden is back at the white house after spending a working weekend at camp david. he remained largely silent publicly on the rebellion in russia, but the white house says he spoke with ukraine s president zelenskyy privately earlier as well as canada s
let s gus whdiscuss where t is today with kim dozier and major general spider marx. the uk defense minister said if russia did use a chemical attack, that all options are on the table for how europe or the west, i suppose, would respond. what does that mean? well, fighting words. and britain has encountered and endured a couple of different attacks on russian citizens on its territory by chemical weapons that it attributed to moscow. but the fact of the matter is, the u.s., the uk, nato, they still don t want to get in any sort of shooting war with russia. so whether that means stepping up sanctions further or finding
the latest satellite imagery shows just miles from the ukrainian border. for the latest on what these military moves could mean, retired army general spider marx is joining us right now. general, the satellite imagery shows us the new buildup is only ten miles of the ukrainian border and less than 50 miles from the ukrainian city of kharkiv. what does that tell you? well, i tell you, wolf, what we re seeing as a result of the great work by the cnn correspondents commercially available imagery you ve shared, the analysis the administration has released, and certainly open sources of intelligence, really shows us that there is a significant buildup of forces right there. we ve seen the cell phone footage. we ve seen the imagery. and what that tells you is there is a real possibility only 30 miles from the border to the