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they weren t willing to send their own forces. so it s not at all clear that they are going to be able to make nice and go back to fighting side by side. the fervent hope of the ukrainians is that this chaos in russia is going to lead to some kind of break down a military discipline on the battlefield. that it will create some kind of opening that ukrainian forces currently conducting that counteroffensive in the southeast can go through. off until this point, we have not seen that breakdown. even with wagner mercenaries leaving southern ukraine and crossing back into russia. marching north toward moscow. it does not appear that the ukrainian officials have been able to exploit that they. been able to find weaknesses in the russian lines. as we ve been saying, the situation is far from settled. it may very well be that if vladimir putin feels that he is effectively fighting a war on two fronts now, trying to shore up his authority at home, even as he prosecutes this invasion here in uk
and in fact loses. but yes, we are in a very dangerous time now when the kind of leadership uncertainty that is likely to be happening in the kremlin walls and beyond leaves a lot of people uncertain about what happens the next hours, the next days, or even the next weeks. max, you wrote about this in the washington post quote. a dictators illusion of control can all too often collapse in the cauldron of combat, especially if the war turns into a prolonged bloody war of attrition as has occurred in ukraine. talk to me more about that illusion of control and if he is trying to wrangle that back, with that then looks like. this all comes back to putin s disastrous miscalculation in launching this war against ukraine where he imagined that his troops could march into kyiv in three days. instead what has happened is that a year and a half later you ve newton s wagner group troops marching on moscow.
counteroffensive following this weekend s rebellion in russia. in a tweet zelenskyy said he and president biden discussed not only putin s war with russia but also the upcoming nato summit and ukraine s hope to join the alliance. zelenskyy also thinking the president and american people for continued support for fighting russia s invasion. msnbc foreign correspondent is in london for us. your sense of how this rebellion changes fighting inside ukraine? here s the thing actually a lot of those wagner fighters had already been withdrawn from the front lines especially around the area buckwheat which is a city that they conquered actor eight months of fighting, probably tens of thousands of dead. so there isn t going to be an immediate impact because all those fighters were already off the front lines. but this is going to shake the confidence of the top brass in moscow the top military brass. but it s also going to shake the confidence of a lot of those rank-and-file on the ground. bec
effectiveness. so alicia taking all of this into account the balance of power in ukraine will shift in major ways when this private military contractor leaves the stage. richard, thank you. u.s. lawmakers reacted today to the ongoing conflict happening in russia, let s listen to some of the thoughts. there was no surprise that there s a long running tension between prigozhin and the leadership in the military. and look, wagner is well known for being brutal. what they ve done in central africa, but they ve done in syria, these are thugs and more criminals. but that he would turn on his own country and threaten to attack putin, that was shocking to me. we saw here a demonstrable crack in vladimir putin s strength. we saw visible rejection of his war policy by someone who had been an ally and now turned into insubordination. on the other side you see president zelenskyy, who has