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afternoon, i m yasmin vossoughian, on a very busy saturday afternoon. coming on the air today following an ongoing military conflict inside russia. we are now learning moments ago, you give guinea prigozhin, the leader of the wagner mercenary group is standing down. , this after escalation late yesterday as the group started making its way towards moscow, threatening vladimir putin s grip on power. the wagner group, until recently, was fighting alongside russian forces in ukraine, but yesterday accusing the kremlin of killing thousands of its soldiers based on quote unquote, false pretenses, prigozhin and his troops have taken control of the city home to the russian military headquarters for the ukraine war, we are unsure where the control stands now. in a televised address this morning, vladimir putin accused the wagner mercenaries of quote unquote treason, and vowing to punish anyone involved in a, quote, armed rebellion. we this is a criminal adventurous to campaig ....
Criticism at russia s military leadership, the defense minister, the senior generals, he has avoided, for the most, part criticizing vladimir putin himself. he said early yesterday, putin was being deceived by the generals. alongside the russian people. so it may be that there is some way back between prigozhin and the russian president, but it s very very hard to see how. yes, very hard to see that road, raf sanchez for. us i want to bring in jen psaki who is on the phone with us from the white house press secretary, now the host of inside, with jen psaki, here on at msnbc.com. , and thanks for joining us. some quite stunning developments in the last 24 hours or, so now the most recent, it seems, prigozhin saying that he is standing down. right, this brokered deal by the belarusian president, lukashenko, between him and prigozhin, what do you make of it considering what you know about the wagner mercenary group, and also how the russian president himself operates, i ....
Very difficult to understand what kind of terms could lead to a deal here. and it s hard to believe, picking up on what you just said, raf, that prigozhin feels as if his life is safe. considering all that he has done in the last 24 hours. and how vladimir putin carries it out, when in fact there is someone who he sees as treasonous inside of moscow. just historically? absolutely, right people who crossed vladimir putin often don t live to tell the tale. prigozhin, at this exact moment, has a lot of leverage. his troops still appear to be in control of that key southern city of rostov-on-don, it s a city near the ukrainian border. it is where russia has been planning its operations here inside ukraine, so prigozhin, at this exact moment, appears to still have cards to play. remember, he has been relatively careful over the course of this to aim his ....
National security analyst. mark, you and i have been speaking throughout the day off line because i ve been following this thing fairly closely as you have as well, give me your first gut reaction to this quote unquote deal. i don t even want to call it that because we don t really know what it s going to take place in the next few hours or so. prigozhin seems to have struck with lukashenko? , listen so much remains unknown about this. i don t even think we know what prigozhin s initial objectives were. but if you think about, it the notion that somehow there could be any reconciliation between putin and prigozhin, that is preposterous. putin sees the world and russians as either a traitor or a patriot. prigozhin is in the category of trader. ultimately what this tells me is there is still dysfunction within the russian security state. and again, i can t see how ....
This latest audio message. prigozhin speaks in a very intense and sharp manner, and it has a lot of, bravado that was still present, but conciliatory, of course he, was announcing that he was standing down. we have heard some additional details on this process, from the belarusian state media, claiming that belarusian president, lukashenko is who a very staunch ally of putin s, somehow negotiated the steel was involved in the process and so he claims, was speaking to prigozhin all day, with the blessing of putin. we know the two of them that being lukashenko and putin, spoke this morning, some timelines match, so we definitely organist where this, goes i think a lot of great points have been made here so far about the trustworthiness about prigozhin, putin as. well lukashenko, you can add to that. list so we re just going to see who moves back, what kind of reconciliation is made. ....