documents showing a top russian general was a secret vip member of evgenyevgeny prigozhin s pri army. these new documents, as there are new questions about where the general and prigozhin are tonight. mike pence making a surprise trip here to ukraine while he is going against so many in his own party whether it comes to the war. pence is outfront tonight. the supreme court decision that has the obamas speaking out forcefully tonight. let s go k outfront. i m erin burnett live in key et tonight. a top secret p member. new documents showing a top rurj shan general is a vip member of the wagner group. a top putin inner circle member listed as a member of yevgeny prigozhin s personal army, same army that marched against putin. it is a major development. guess what? there s more. in these documents, obtained exclusively here, there are 30 other senior russian military officials action wagner members. these are significant revelations if true. raising more questions, specifi
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documents list him and 30 other military and intelligence officials that are also vip wagner members. wagner hasn t answered cnn s request for a response. it is unclear what vep member si membership details. but it does imply an overly close relationship with between the russian military and the merce mercenaries that they failed to prevent from staging a military uprising at the weekend. and in allowing wagner fighters to take over an entire russian city with virtually no resistance.
i mean, it s a stunning revelation, and it sort of talks to the kind of issue that nick was mentioning in that report from kyiv where he was saying basically what was it that led the russian military to allow this mercenary wagner group to take over a russian city, for instance, with such ease, and there are questions in moscow circulating in the kremlin about the possibility of divided loyalties. this revelation, these documents speak directly to that, because it seems that, you know, general surovikin, the deputy commander, you know, of ukrainian forces, i m sorry, russian forces in ukraine appears to have been since 2018, a vip wagner member. and you mentioned he s not alone. there are 30 other senior russian military and intelligence officials that have also been fanned to be on the list by the dossier, which is a
this is the last time he saw the general. on saturday, looking nervous. imploring wagner mercenaries to send their grief rebellion. we have victories together. we are the same blood. but you must do this before it s too late. there was clearly pressure, his words, to make a difference. it s well-known that the general, nicknamed general armageddon, was very close to wagner. but just how close is only now becoming clear. documents shared exclusively with cnn suggest he was since 2018, a secret vip member of the group. the personal wagner registration number. the documents obtained by the russian investigative center, he