jon: it is perhaps the most serious challenge to the vladimir putin s authority, although at this moment it appears the challenge has edged. yevgeny prigozhin has turned his forces around and is said to be heading back to belarus. let s check in with our greg palkot who s covering the story from that part of the world. greg. reporter: jon, it looks like we re back on the brink in russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv, but it also looks like a lot of damage was done. it was the biggest risk to russian president vladimir putin s more than two decades of rule, attempted coup, an armed uprising. the man responsible, evgeni pregoes telephone, complaining friday about the war, then pulling his fighters out of ukraine and into the russian city of rostov-on-don with where, with little trouble, they took over the place. and, yes, prigozhin sent forces towards moscow, within 120 miles, the kremlin bracing for an attack, vladimir putin branding the actions
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leader, he s obviously putin s loyalist. he, too, did not have a great deal of military experience, isn t that correct? would you expect that he does survive this, this attempt, i guess, at a coup by prigozhin? yeah, this is the big question, right? because prigozhin definitely laid down the marker. not only did he want the defense minister gone, but he also wanted the chief of the general staff gone as well. and so far, perhaps to the save face, the kremlin is saying that there was no deal, that neither men are going anywhere. now, let s see what happens in the next 24-48 hours. every day a that goes by is another day that you may see people somehow tragically falling out of high windows, out of apartment buildings or maybe shooting themselves in the head several times. this is a very violent and, right now, a very chaotic and unstable regime. and we ve seen the proof of that