But, again, i think from the point of view of the west, you know, we tend to think of belarus as an independent state, and it is, but russia has very strong control inside belarus. so this is not prigozhin going into exile in a, you know, a gulf state like we ve seen some dictators do before. this is prigozhin going to the capital of a country that is extremely closely aligned with moscow. that s really an important point. emma, thanks for your expertise. appreciate it very much. coming up, an insurrection that ended almost as quickly as it began, but is the damage already done for the russian president vladimir putin? we ll discuss the implications and more when we come back.
Fully open to traffic. we know in rostov-on-don itself road repair crews have gone out to repair the area where prigozhin s heavy military equipment ripped up the tarmac. beyond some of these sort of physical details, there is a lot that we don t know. we don t know where prigozhin is. we know that he asked essentially for the removal of the defense minister, . we don t know precisably where president putin is. alexander lukashenko, the president of belarus, negotiated this standdown, if you will, this exit, this off-ramp from what was going to be a russian on russian potential bloodbath. so they have got themselves, the leadership got themselves out of a very tight and hugely dangerous and damaging situation. how they did it and how it will play out is unclear. and i think one of the
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. russia says it s dropping charges against prigozhin. he agreed to leave russia for belarus, but there is no word where he is not right now. a as for vladimir putin, he emerges from this crisis weaker among world leaders and his own people. jason crow serves on the intelligence and foreign affairs committee and says putin and prigozhin are worse off. anybody thinks that either putin or prigozhin is going to walk away from this unscathed, they are fooling themselves. the idea that prigozhin s going to go to belarus and retire in peace and the wagner mercernaries are going to return to the battlefield and putin s going back to situation normal is just not going to happen, right. putin has been extremely weakened by this. analysts say putin faces a
Private military company from his exile, if you will, in belarus? all these things are things that have not yet played out. yesterday there was a very late phone call by the kremlin with dmitry peskov where he laid only of this out. he didn t have the answers to many of the questions. obviously, all off this is still very fresh. one of the things that nic said, this was a big challenge for vladimir putin. i don t think that vladimir putin necessarily came out of this a lot weaker than he was before because one of the things that i think became clear if someone messes with vladimir putin, that one is going to end up in exile or in a lot of trouble elsewhere and certainly all of the senior commanders, the ones who have a lot of power on the battlefields in ukraine immediately stepped behind vladimir putin. you re talking about kadirov. so with that right now the command and control structure at least as far as the military is
The way claiming control of military installations in the voronezh region. footage later showed at least one russian helicopter narrowly avoiding a missile. translator: at 10:00 a.m. moscow time vladimir putin made a televised address to the nation, calling the rebellion a stab in the back. translator: all those who chose the path of treachery, prepared an armed mutiny, the path of blackmail and terrorist methods will answer to the law and our people. reporter: the kremlin announced counterterrorism measures, tightening security in moscow. but by saturday night, suddenly a kremlin reversal. putin spokesman announced a deal. prigozhin released an audio message saying his troops would turn around and go back to field camps to avoid shedding russian