but some u.s. officials are still amazed the conflict ended so quickly. they expected the uprising to escalate. cnn s alex marquardt has more now, reporting in from washington. reporter: the abrupt ending to yevgeny prigozhin s march on moscow was sooner and less violent than u.s. national security and intelligence officials expected. a u.s. official tells cnn that they assessed that there would be a lot of fighting and bloodshed as wagner forces pushed up from southern russia towards moscow. instead, there is very little resistance from russia s army, security services and others, and wagner troops were well on their way to the capital before prigozhin shockingly called the advance to a halt and ordered his troops to turn around. a deal supposedly brokered by belarus also surprising the u.s. but the insurrection itself was predicted by the u.s. intelligence community, according to multiple sources speaking to cnn. movement and buildup of wagner troops, equipment and weapons was ob