hours later the russian president responded. calling wagner s action rebellion and bowing to give its organizers to justice. he was officials tell cbs news they believe prigozhin was still in russia as of this morning that his current whereabouts are unknown. the revolt began friday evening when prigozhin blamed a russian air strike for killing a large number of his fighters. in retaliation, the mercenary boss marched his troops into russia and seized the city of rostov, home to russia solon military command. prigozhin then directed them toward moscow to deal he said with the defense minister sergei shoigu and his top general. social media capture the death and destruction a long way. president vladimir putin began to lock down capital as soldiers took up defensive positions. heavy equipment ripped up the roads leading to the city. on state tv, president putin attacked prigozhin as a traitor but with wagner troops less than
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were basically bogus and that is there was no threat from nato and there was no just tonight genocide on ethnic russians in the east and so on. what are we expecting to hear from vladimir putin now. it s illegal to even call it a wart let alone question the motives for the war. what are we likely to hear from vladimir putin? what does he need to do? i just don t know how the russian president will thread this needle where a powerful, mercenary boss whose forces were leading the russian effort to capture the city of bakhmut in ukraine four months is openly accusing the top russian leadership of corruption and crimes against russia and how he s going to handle this. it s clear that the russian state has declared prigozhin a criminal now. they say they want to bring him to justice and i don t know how
approached there. at one point he goes on to stay that he cannot identify them and he goes on to say that we are going day here and blockade rostov until the chief of general staff and the defense minister come here. that s the way it s going to be. they said something about getting these guys and taking them away from here and he says no way, my guys will not leave here so it does appear that he has taken over some kind of he s claiming the headquarters of the russian military in the south of the country and is sitting there with officers and saying he s not going anywhere and he even goes one step further to say we will go on to moscow. this is a remarkable power struggle taking place in the south of russia between the most powerful mercenary boss in russia who just weeks ago was