you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in the newsroom. we begin with a potential invasion of moscow by mercenaries, suddenly stopped in its track and a coup attempt on vladimir putin is averted for now. the wagner group was seizing control in the city earlier today. they claimed to capture the 60 without firing a single shot and here you can hear the soldiers cheering. prigozhin claimed to seize the city about halfway to moscow, and that s when prigozhin said he ordered his mercenaries to turn around. we re seeing the heroes welcome. he said he struck a deal to avoid a bloody conflict. translator: therefore realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sites, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan. recovering all the angles. let s begin in london with cnn s reporter. do we know what caused this sudden about face? they seemed to be on the way to moscow
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he s turning his forces around from a march towards the russian capital potentially ending an apparent military coup against putin, but it remains unclear whether the most significant challenge from vladimir putin during his more than two-decades hold on pow er is truly over. the kremlin says as part of the deal wagner fighters will return to base and not face legal action for taking part in the march. the wagner chief said to be heading to neighboring belarus. u.s. intelligence officials tell cnn they believe prigoshin had been planning a major challenge to russia s military leadership for quite some time but were surprised by the rapid escalation of the situation. the white house says it s closely monitoring events in russia and that president biden is being continually updated by his national security team. we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in london, and this is a special edition of the situation room. announcer: th
russia wouldn t have the success that it s had if not for prigozhin and the wagner group. they re mercenaries, they re deadly, but they are actually effective. and now he s turned and gone back into the russia, he claims he s going to fix the situation because he claims that the russian military attacked his men. this has been a long simmering food between the russian defense minister and prigozhin, but prigozhin says he s doing something about it. we are unable to convert any of this, we have heard reports from ukrainians that they ve crossed into russia. that wagner group has crushed into russia. burgos russia is on high alert. moscow has tanks in the streets, they re calling it a coup attempt. he denies that s the case, it is all very confusing. but this guy is both volatile and dangerous. i will say on the american side, there is a concern. russia is a nuclear armed country, and having a whole bunch of people fighting about who s in charge of it is actually more serio
group leader yevgeny prigozhin striking a deal to avoid criminal charges. but in exchange she was forced to leave russia for neighboring belarus. locals taken to the streets cheering as a rebel commander left for exile. they even snapped a few selfies with supporters on the way out. he was secretary of state entity blinken sees this rebellion as a site of russia is weakening. what we have seen his extraordinary pre-think about it this way 16 months ago rush up for the doorstep of kyiv in ukraine. believing they would take the capitol the matter of days and race the country from the map as independent country. now what we have seen is russia having to defend moscow, its capitol gets mercenaries of its own making. live fox team coverage on this, lucas tomlinson jeff paulson bias in this fox news contributor scanner here at the and what could happen next. first let s go live it to kyiv seen for affairs correspondent greg palko with the very latest there on the ground. hi e