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video of him leaving rostov-on-don, where he had taken control of a key russian military facility. the kremlin says, he is now heading to neighboring belarus, wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. again, all of this is from the kremlin and unverified by nbc news. new reporting from the washington post reads, quote, while putin seemed to avert his greatest prices crisis in more than 23 years as russia s supreme political leader, grief armed rebellion, presented the starkest evidence yet that his brutal invasion of ukraine could backfire. leading to instability at home and exposing his growing isolation from reality and weakness as a leader. joining us now from kyiv, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella, nbc news white house correspondent and on capitol hill, and pc news correspondent julie adjuster. kelly, let s start with you. how is the kremlin trying to explain what s unfolded over the past 24 hours? well alicia, it s interesting. they re not trying to explain ....
russia. another hour of christiansen reports starts right now. ight now good morning, it is sunday june 25th. i am chris jansing. velshi is in he s making his way to ukraine to report on the events of the last few days. that s where we begin this hour. an extraordinary, tell, and potentially game changing 24 hours. this morning, this leads the u.s. and the world with questions in the aftermath of the greatest threat in vladimir putin s 23 year rule. it s weakened his authority? but does it tell us about his country s defense. what might be the impact on the war in ukraine? we ve got some thoughts from today s meet the press. now what we ve seen is russia having to defend moscow, its capital, against mercenaries of its own making. this is a challenge coming from within to putin, and that s where his focus has been. our focus is resolutely and resolutely on ukraine. we saw a demonstrable crack and uproot and strength. the only real answer here is that putin is going ....
Lukashenko lukashenko is essential for him. it helps him have the divide and conquer leadership has. if you are a dictator, and you worry about the power of the military and generals, ahead of the military, one of the things that prigozhin did is to try to weaken them. he would play these people, and institutions against each other. he is the ultimate arbiter between them. when push came to shove he couldn t rely on the loyalty of the same people. this is really dangerous. if you are a dictator, it s all about power. he s always talked about been the man for stability and russia, and it was all just cracked hard yesterday. esterday to that point, we don t know where prigozhin is right now. and even if the wagner group is now out of business, does that mean elements of the ....
This unfolded. no update from the man himself, who probably everyone wants to hear from. everyone is looking to see what is the meeting will be. yesterday, when he made that television address well this whole address was unfolding, he looked a visibly angry. he was talking very strongly in terms of mutiny, trader, being stabbed in the back, and punishment. that is very strong wards by the end of the day, they didn t make him look particularly strong. by the beginning of the day, he was talking about prigozhin going to jail, being punished for what he s done, facing the full prosecution, the full punishments of the legal system. by the end of the day, he was given exile. they were told that he wouldn t face any punishment as wagner fighters won t face any punishment. they can even joined the russian defense ministry. he s come out of this looking much we command that he was before. we spoke about this in the last hour, in the early 90s, when there were coups against boris ....
Organization he couldn t continue under existing or a new capacity, or even that prigozhin might resurface. all of these things are possible. the wagner fighters could be incorporate into the regular defense or the army. how do you take these people been fighting in a completely different way, and put them into a bureaucracy and make that work? it shows weakness of the leadership, it shows a weakness of the system. and if prigozhin is going to be in belarus, this is a problem for the future of putin, and a lot of people have speculated that putin would just kill him. that creates a separate set of problems for vladimir putin. he has created this every man view that he supports the troops, that the rich elites in moscow were not serious about taking care of the russians at the front. killing him could create real ....