when asked in helsinki today about ukraine s path to nato membership and how it might affect vladimir putin s willingness to keep fighting, president biden said, quote, putin has already lost the war. russia is facing significant challenges as it tries to hold ukrainian territory they grabbed in the invasion. the most visible being a string of fired, killed or missing generals and war lords. sergei surovikin, not seen since last month. one russian lawmaker saying he is, quote, resting. yevgeny prigozhin has also not been seen since the rebel union. another general was killed in ukrainian missile strike. and now, of course, there is the former sub commander gunned down after possibly being tracked on his running app. for more on what we know and what remains a mystery, here is nick paton walsh. reporter: as russia paraded thursday, the surrender of heavy
it might affect vladimir putin s membership defeat fighting. president biden said putin has quote, already lost the war. whether that assessment russia is facing the significant challenges. most of his, well recent ring of fire, missing generals and war lords. general sergei survey, can not seen in public since the wagner rebellion, last month. one russian lawmaker saying he is quote, resting. general ivan pop, off fired. wagner leader is any prigozhin also not seen since the rebellion. another general was killed, ukrainian missile strike. and now of course there is the former sub, commander gunned down after possibly being tracked on his running app. for more on what we, know and what remains a mystery. here s cnn s. as russia paraded thursday, to surrender of heavy weapons from the failed wagner rebellion, to the regular army, effectively russia disarming itself, france criticisms of the worst disaster were coming from
prigozhin increasingly was taking aim at the russian military high command. particularly under the he was saying they were hanging the forces to. dry they weren t providing with ammunition or cover. threatening all kinds of things towards russian military on command. now the way putin has set up the regime, he s had this kind of competing and corrupt the thumb. prigozhin is corrupt. there are other war lords. their provincial leaders. but we have not seen thus far is somebody standing up from within the structure and taking on the center of power of vladimir putin. so, what s happened in the last 48 hours, for the first time in putin s 23 years of being a dominant force in russian, politics you had someone essentially declare that the emperor has no clothes. i m going to take him. on i m going to march with my forces. the city s rostov that he took over briefly, this is not a small city. it s over 1 million people. it s also the main logistics hub for the war in ukraine. so, he was a
cargurus. shop.buy.sell.online. beyond russia and ukraine, the wagner group has power and influence from sudan to venezuela. what happens to the leaders it is propping up out there, and the money it s sending back to russia, money that had been helping to fund vladimir putin s war in ukraine? let us ask former pentagon senior official wendy anderson and senior coalitions adviser for concerned veterans for america and director of veterans initiatives at stand together, jason beardsley. wendy, i want to let s talk about prigozhin and what he had been doing. he had been propping up war lords and leaders in africa, propping up some folks in venezuela, sending money back from mining and diamonds in those areas back to russia to