acknowledging he had sensitive secret documents that were not declassified. we re breaking down the recordings and what they mean for the special counsel s criminal case against him. also tonight, cnn is live in ukraine where the death toll has been rising from a new russian missile strike in a crowded city center. president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling the attack a manifestation of terror. this comes as vladimir putin is on damage control after the mutiny by wagner mercenaries. all ask former u.s. defense secretary mark esper about the rebellion and how it s influencing putin s war strategy. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with powerful evidence against donald trump in the special counsel s case against him. cnn exclusively obtaining recordings of the former president talking about highly classified material in his possession. this comes as trump is speaking out
we turn first he is live in kyiv for us. looks at their back from the brink in neighboring russia here in kyiv right now. all is quiet but it looks like a lot of damage was done. biggest risk to vladimir putin more than two decades of rule an attempted coup in farm uprisings the men responsible missionary trade you complaining friday about the war with leadership in conduct pulling fighters out of ukraine into the russian city but with little trouble they took over the place. and yes prigozhin sent forces toward moscow with 120 miles of the place. the kremlin bracing for any attack. vladimir putin branding the actions treason. elders of president alexander lukashenko active the authority of putin speaking with prigozhin to change things. the wagner chief agreed to pull back with guaranteed security. the leader confirmed he ordered his fighters to return to field camps in ukraine including those holed up in that russian city. jon, overall it looks like a loss for the mercena
breakfast. our top stories russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin called off his rebellion after 24 hours of mayhem. prigozhin agreed to leave russia after talks with the leader of belarus. the kremlin says he won t be prosecuted. faulkner troops have also begun to leave the southern city of rostov where the began. just hours earlier, vladimir putin had called the rebellion treason. in moscow, residents have been told to avoid traveling and all mass outdoor events are canceled until next month. and, of course, with events in russia dominating the sunday papers, we will run through them with the editor peter conrad and welcome to sky news breakfast. the rebellion by russian mercenary leader to be over within 24 hours, his take in the southern city of rostov-on-don, a key communication setup for the war in ukraine and an armored of 124 miles of moscow. russian president vladimir putin called it a knife in the back of our people and said they were traitors. b
a reminder of what president zelenskyy said, trying to strike terror into the hearts of civilians, bombing populated areas. it s a reminder of the toll of the war after a weekend of extraordinary drama often amongst aging autocratic men fighting over the spoils of the post-soviet world. began to get more answers as to where wagner mercenary head, yevgeny prigozhin is. it seems he s gone to belarus. above all, we had a very weakened russian president vladimir putin constantly apooerg on television, trying to sell a narrative that was so far removed from reality, it was unclear how many russians would actually accept it. here s what we saw. president putin s used to conjuring his own reality on state tv. but it was not clear during an array of post-rebellion pomp on tuesday who is left buying it.
just that it was a peaceful they were welcomed by civilians giving them high fives. yes, it really was an extraordinary day. i say that as someone who was in moscow for the last two and 1991 which was itself an extraordinary three days this was over in a day. what happened essentially forces loyal to prigozhin the mercenary head of the wagner group [inaudible] as far as we could see they could go to the military headquarters. and then from there they advance up the main store highway towards as they went there was more trouble on the way there were some skirmishes with russian forces but again they are appeared to take control in key places and continued upwards the road to moscow and they