leighton both cnn military analysts. general clark, moscow was bracing for a potential wagner assault. no doubt about that. now the kremlin struck a deal with prigoshin. what s your reaction to these late-breaking developments? i agree with what was said. we don t have all the facts. missing facts. don t add up, number one, do we really know there was a rocket strike on prigoshin s troops? don t really flow that. seen video but no evidence of that. we no tactical nuclear weapons supposedly moved into belarus. is it possible this is a mass raid of distraction to be able toll redeploy the wagner group troops into belarus? we don t know that and don t really understand the essence of the deal. so there s a lot of facts here that don t make sense, but it doesn t seem to prigoshin is the
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announcer: this is cnn breaking news let s go straight to our cnn chief international security reporter nick paton walsh following the news. fast-moving developments unfolding. update viewers on the very latest resident doesn t end of it make a lot of sense. what we know now is that prigoshin has agreed to turn around his columns on the way to moscow and they ve gone back to field camps. we ve seen video of some of those wagner fighters leaving the voronezh hold, and indeed pictured in an suv wearing a baseball cap in that city. seems driving out and being cheered by locals. so that answer s one question
the outcome of this might be. so it s a mystery at this point. keep all ideas on the table. what do you think, colonel leighton? i think, wolf, that the basic idea that putin is a mastermind i think is proven wrong in many cases here. the other part of this, though, is that when we look at the totality of all this, what we re seeing is in the frame of the russian state an effort by two very delusional men to exercise as much power as they possibly can. by those i mean, of course, putin and prigoshin. good point. guys, thank you very, very much for that excellent analysis. just ahead, latest on the diplomatic front and what we re learning about american outreach after allies around the world are right now, sources tell cnn u.s. intelligence was aware this was in the works. the former director of u.s. national intelligence is standing by to join us live. stay with us. you re in the situation room.
allies. he s made calls to the top e.u. foreign officials and also turkey and ukraine. the foreign ministers there, his counterparts reiterating the u.s. support for ukraine, as you said, is steadfast. and the thing that we ll be watching for tomorrow is the secretary of state is going on a number of sunday shows including cnn, and that will be, if we don t hear from the administration between now and then, the first time that we have a real reaction from a top biden administration official. you have to think the secretary of state will be on those sunday shows and he will be right here on cnn. thank you. wagner had yevgeny prigozhin known as putin s chef. the rise to prominence by winning contracts with the kremlin but he is one of russia s most elusive oligarchs. senior correspondent fred