group of trying to mount a coup against russian president vladimir putin. prigozhin, who was hired by putin to mobilize the wagner forces to ukraine, set kremlin s justifications for invading ukraine was based on lies. let s go right now to nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel, which is following all of it. he is in taipei. richard, thank you so much for coming to the last word. what s the latest that we have confirmed? so, there is a very little confirmed. although we have some images that have come out from moscow, images that have come out from the city of rostov on dawn, and we have statements from prigozhin. so let s just set
into service, offering them amnesty in exchange for frontline duty. but they also have business operations all over the world, in african particular. and reporting that we ve done shows that wagner is able to extract about half a billion dollars a year in gold and blood diamonds from just one country. the central african republic alone. so, they have money, they have independent sources of money, they have tens of thousands at least of loyal troops who are loyal to prigozhin, and who see the army as an enemy, an enemy that has been denying them resources. which is killing them by other means, and now according to prigozhin, actively trying to kill them over the last 24 hours ago in this murky attack that supposedly took place on wagner positions inside ukraine. so,
effort, i m wondering, is prigozhin someone who could breakthrough and turn public support against putin? even if this event, whatever this event is that s happening, doesn t work? it s a very difficult to richard, thank you very much for that excellent recap of how we got to this point. but in terms of that split, in the russian war effort, i m wondering, is prigozhin someone who could breakthrough and turn public support against putin?