there for realizing that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our colonies around and lead in the opposite direction to the field camps and according to the plan. the kremlin says it doesn t know where bogosian is right now. this is a video where his troops seized military facilities on saturday. officials now tell cnn that u.s. intelligence believes they were planning to directly challenge russia s military leadership for a while. meanwhile, washington did not see any change in the russia s nuclear posture during the turmoil. continues to monitor developments in russia. he joins me now from hong kong. tell me more about where things stand right now. in the last day or so, if that is an indicator, people can be different in a few hours from now. for now, michael, the russian state media is reporting that the highways leading north to moscow are being reopened. these are highways that state television themselves reported how russian officials were t
because of an insurrection led by the leader of the wagner mercenaries that ended nearly as soon as it started. an apparent clash between wagner and russian troops which was followed by a fire at that oil refinery you see on your screen there. under the deal done, the kremlin says wagner troops will not face any legal action, but they ll sign new contracts with russia s defense ministry while moscow will drop its charges against prig prigozhin, who will go to belarus. wagner s leader says he agreed to that in order to avoid bloodshed. translator: therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps, according to the plan. the kremlin says it doesn t know where prigozhin is right now. what you see there is video of people cheering as he left ross stor-on-don where his troops seized military facilities on saturday. officials now tell c
now. what you see there is video of people cheering as he left ross stor-on-don where his troops seized military facilities on saturday. officials now tell cnn the u.s. intelligence believes prigozhin was planning to challenge russia s military leadership for a while, while washington did not see any change in russia s nuclear posture despite all the turmoil. ivan watson monitoring the developments in russia. he joins me now from hong kong. an extraordinary day by any measure. where do things stand now in terms of prigozhin and his future? reporter: well, prigozhin himself has been conspicuously silent. he s a bit of a loudmouth who s all over social media normally. since his final audio message where he announced he was turning his troops around, that they had accomplished their plan, we haven t really heard from him. and even the kremlin says that it does not know where he is right now.
plot to take him out, and they really did want to avoid that because that is a play book that putin has used in the past. and so president biden, he was updated. he did leave for camp david around midday today. and he did bring with him the national security advisor, jake sullivan. so certainly he s being briefed very regularly on this. but i think the question that he and his officials will want to look at now is really what does president putin s grip on power currently look like? does this change anything in terms of his ability to lead russia? and i think that is something that they will really want to take a very close look at. this is certainly a very volatile moment in the 16 months since this war began, michael. indeed, it is thank you. kevin liptak there in washington following things for us. stay with us. when we come back how did the russian media cover the wagner rebellion as it unfolded? also one of the questions at
russia s military leadership for a while while washington did not see any change in russia s nuclear posture during the turmoil. for more on all of this let s go to ivan watson in hong kong. iven, yevgeny prigozhin is not one to be quiet for long, but we ve not heard from him since he left rostov-on-don, have we? no, not since he essentially declared victory and said his troops were turning around after getting, he claimed, within 200 kilometers of moscow and saying he didn t want to spill blood. so that s left basically russia and the world trying to digest what actually just happened here. and i don t think even people close to the kremlin really have a firm answer because it was just saturday morning that vladimir putin was making a televised address to the nation saying that this was a dire threat to the country, that he was comparing this to the 1917