come again. -sorry, what was that? introducing the next generation 10g network only from xfinity. hello i m alicia menendez the future starts now. with ali meridian thank you for joining our coverage as the world watches a crisis unfold in russia it has been a while 24 hours testing vladimir putin s hold on power. the kremlin now protecting the world and it reached a deal with the leader of a mercenary group that has gone rogue. prigozhin the leader of the mercenary group ordered his forces to return to their bases abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading towards moscow the new video showing prigozhin greeted with cheers as he left the city of hours ago. that is where he had taken control of the key russian military facility an act of retaliation after russia s military launched a missile strike on wagner group camps, the kremlin has said that prigozhin would quote go to belarus and wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted, nbc news has not independently confi
be a debacle. wagner, this private mercenary army stepped in, filled the breach and at great cost to its mostly convict soldier who were getting pressed into duty given this deal freedom to fight on the front line, a kind of bargain that if you are a condemned prisoner can be tempting. they took this deal, fought hard and they had success where the regular mainstream army did not have success and had failure after failure. that gained wagner popularity. and, prigozhin is a communicator every day, practically, he himself was out on telegram speaking, wearing a jacket, sometimes speaking from the bunkers, speaking in courts