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Pete: we begin with a fox news alert, armed rebellion by russian mercenary forces raging inside russia. a group that wants back in ukraine on the company s behalf claims to have control of the key russian city. will: president putin calls her betrayal as the us and the west wait to see if a move is made on moscow. rachel: alexandria is live with the latest. reporter: this focuses away from the offensive on ukraine into defending itself and the man leading this rebellion represents a striking turnaround in allegiance. former longtime valhalla mirror putin ally is promising to leave the private wegner military group into moscow, a ....
Cities along the border with ukraine but the longer impact beyond yevgeny prigozhin, are there others in russia s military, does this lead to russian military units deciding they are not going to fight against ukraine anymore? where this goes, my experience in russia, it never gets any better. i m sure the intelligence community is tracking closely not even no longer vladimir putin asked plans and intentions but how the russian army, the ministry of defense, the security services, the svr, russia s military intelligence, how they are reacting, massive level of unrest for a country with a lot of nuclear weapons the just shipped nuclear weapons to belarus making the region less secure. pete: you have a sense of this head of the wegner group will comply with this arrest? will we see a showdown with vladimir putin s troops firing on his own reserves? reporter: i think he is going to not comply with any ....
Arrest order and consider those to be illegal because he has spoken so harshly of the ministry of defense. remember yevgeny prigozhin runs the internet agency that ran interference on our election in 2016. he was very close to vladimir putin but that relationship is frayed and will likely have an impact on the way russia operates in syria and africa. this will send shockwaves throughout russia s national security establishment and have major implications for russia s ability to project power all over the world, not just in ukraine. pete: thanks for getting up and filling us in. rachel: it is interesting. we see how complicated these adventures abroad become. for me, looking at the amount of money we have sent, the lack of transparency, the fact that we get very few updates, we think ukraine is winning and we ....
Dan hoffman, former cia chief served in moscow. help us make sense of what is going on, troops not fighting in ukraine but going back into russia. reporter: let me start with background, vladimir putin made a faustian bargain by assigning yevgeny prigozhin the task of fighting in ukraine, they were equipped to do mercenary work in africa and syria but not to go up against a well-trained ukrainian army and they reportedly lost 20,000 men. many of them were prisoners, but still, 20,000 is a lot for his unit. yevgeny prigozhin led his guys to slaughter. that became an x essential threat to his leadership of the wegner group. he has to blame somebody, that is why particularly over the last we 6 weeks we ve seen increasingly intense and derisive conflict between the ....
Comparing blackwater to wegner but they brower contractor group, marching down to kuwait where the centcom headquarters were and said you are not fighting this war properly, we want to take it over. some people are speculating he wouldn t be doing this without the blessing of vladimir putin but for vladimir putin to condemn this action and say you won t be tolerated, that creates a lot of uncertainty over this. these guys are leading the war in ukraine for russia and turning on their own defense secretary, not a good sign at the kremlin. pete: the only adjustment i would offer is it would be like blackwater marching into houston. the movements by the wegner group will: inside russia. pete: within the continent of if not a straight line, within russia, you can see on the map, just to the east of ukraine. ....