a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto. and welcome back to cnn special live coverage of the russian rebellion that erupted without warning and ended quickly this weekend not long after it began. yet and we should be clear the world is only beginning to assess the fallout. there are growing questions tonight about vladimir putin s leadership going forward and whether his iron grip on russia is weakening. the crash site of a russian military plane reportedly brought down by the wagner group yesterday. the cause of the crash not clear. but footage indicates the aircraft had been struck by a missile or rocket. there s still no sign of vladimir s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, who led this march on russia, af he cut a deal to go into belarus. also not seen, putin. we re going to have the latest on the white house reaction and president biden s conversation today with ukraine s leader. first, though, an update from cnn s matthew chance, who is in moscow. reporter: jim,
good morning, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer reporting today from london. we re following breaking news out of russia right now. very dramatic developments raising serious questions about president vladimir putin s grip on power, accusing the wagner mercenary group of what he is calling an armed rebellion. the head of the wagner group, brittney griner, say prigozhin, the russian governor in the region is calling on prigozhin to abandon his plans but prigozhin threatens to move on to moscow, to moscow, if russia s top general and defense minister don t meet with him. listen. again, we came here, we want to receive the chief of general staff, and so they are here, and so they are here, we will be located here, blockading the city of rostov, and we ll go to moscow. very dramatic indeed. the russian president putin calls the actions by prigozhin a betrayal and a stab in the back, his words, to the russian people, and he
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