video of him leaving rostov-on-don, where he had taken control of a key russian military facility. the kremlin says, he is now heading to neighboring belarus, wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. again, all of this is from the kremlin and unverified by nbc news. new reporting from the washington post reads, quote, while putin seemed to avert his greatest prices crisis in more than 23 years as russia s supreme political leader, grief armed rebellion, presented the starkest evidence yet that his brutal invasion of ukraine could backfire. leading to instability at home and exposing his growing isolation from reality and weakness as a leader. joining us now from kyiv, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella, nbc news white house correspondent and on capitol hill, and pc news correspondent julie adjuster. kelly, let s start with you. how is the kremlin trying to explain what s unfolded over the past 24 hours? well alicia, it s interesting. they re not trying to explain, it t
and takes a wagner out as a player, but a lot of their efforts were already spent anyway. prigozhin kept threatening to leave, pull them out, so they may not have been much of a force to reckon with in any case. but, the basic military problem of pushing the russians out of their positions in ukraine, remains, and i don t see why that should walter any of the discussions that take place at the nato summit. that s still the task to be accomplished. i have less than a minute left but i want to get your final thoughts. okay. i agree with what they said about the need to send ukrainian arms, and conduct a successful counteroffensive. it would be wonderful at the nato summit, if clear steps were taken to strengthen ukraine in the war, and lead to their eventual after the war, integration into nato. tom nichols, ambassador, and lieutenant general, thank you so much for your time. next, a live update from
russians were in rostov. that city right next to ukraine, right over the border which was occupied by a lot of wagner mercenaries, just over the past day. we saw them casually strolling around and taking selfies with the troops. we also heard them chanting wagner, as those troops were leaving just in the past several hours. that just goes to show that a lot of citizens there were ready to accept prigozhin, they were championing him. so many questions remain. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley, reporting from london. matt, as always, thank. you our coverage continues after a short break. r a short break. voltaren. the joy of movement.
weeks as we lead up to that nato summit. eks asi completely agree with gl . staying out of this was exactly at the right call. this is not something that the biden administration or anybody in nato needed to be getting involved in, or expressing strong opinions about. i think at this point, the arguments at the nato summit or the pain of the nato summit can still be and should be, it doesn t matter who s running who is running this war. this war is still ongoing. as these russians are dug in, and they have to be pushed out, and that s going to be the main task. so in some sense, what just happened in russia doesn t really affect the kind of discussions we should be having about military aid. the ukrainians still need what they need, the russian forces are still there. this takes wagner off the field
russia, and putin s alleged deal with wagner group later if any progression. mercenaries seen leaving rostov russia earlier today after prigozhin agreed to stop the march to moscow. wagner commander and his troops were nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley joins us now with the latest. matt, ukrainian president zelenskyy said today that russia is suffering from quote, full scale weakness. is he taunting putin, is that simply the reality of this moment? well, it s a tough question. and you know, the fact is that zelenskyy is of course going to be taunting putin. he is going to be criticizing and accusing putin anytime he has the chance. but this is a situation where unless you re steeped in conspiracy theories, or alternate interpretations of what s going on, there is no real way to look at this