undoubtedly been weakened. prigozhin announced his paramilitary fighters would pull back to avoid bloodshed. the kremlin later announced war lord could leave for belarus allegedly without penalty for his mercenaries taking hold of the critical russian city of rostov-on-don. they were going to dismantle pmc wagner. we came out on the 23rd of june to march for justice. in this time we did not 3eu8 a single drop of blood on of our fighters. now the moment has come when blood may still spill, that that s why understanding the responsibility, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to our plan. reporter: according to a spokesperson for secretary of state antony blinken, quote, support by the united states for ukraine will not change. the united states will stay in close coordination with ukraine as the situation develops. and russian officials offered this, quote: we ve warned the western countries against any hint of possible use of the domes
asylum seekers and what he thinks of governors sending them to cities around the country. with just 46 days until the midterms, we re taking a closer look at what both parties are doing to garner support from latino voters. we ll have more on that. and we re watching the escalating protests in iran. some women are burning their head scarves in defiance of the nation s morality police after a woman died in their custody. we begin with the growing backlash in russia to vladimir putin s order calling up 300,000 reservists to fight in ukraine. with tomorrow marking seven months since russia s invasion, putin is looking to reset recent losses with a new surge of troops. more than 1300 people have been detained while protesting the order. this morning russian opposition leader alex say navalny called it criminal. and earlier today, voting began in russian-occupied territoies of ukraine to become part of russia. it s been viewed as a sham in the west as part of the plan to ann
thought that he could be a puppetmaster. prigozhin s one of, you know, their gru generals, spy agency for russia. he said prigozhin would walk with you wagner group in 14, 15 and 16, but you can see that he s, you know, official intelligence sources and military work closely with these criminal groups, you know? so we need to understand that now russia has taken high are losses because they re dealing with organized military. and now they re dividing their power. and i think prigozhin had two reasons for what he was doing. he probably was doing extortions, he s tried to do the there putin is and put more of his people in charge of another clan, or it also could be a cover-up because, strangely enough, he went to belarus, not back to africa. we have to be watching what is he going to be doing there.
it certainly seems the dam is breaking right now. i have seen reports that a ticket out of moscow is going for about $9,000. over 1,000 arrests have been made. even see in putin s hometown of st. petersburg a referendum calling for him to resign because he s committing treason. this is pretty shocking, a pretty shocking turn of events in what largely has been an area where we have seen putin controlling the message within russia. want your reaction to something senator lindsey graham said about these protests in russia. i want to play for you part of what he said. do we have that? s this is the beginning of the end for putin. he s asking people to die in a war they don t want to fight. he s destroying the russian economy. he s destroying the russian military.
western nations, more aligned in this fight and certainly that alignment has done nothing but grow. when i was on the ground before the war started, the ukrainian people were united in their resolve to fight for their freedom and democracy, and i really thought putin was making a really strategic miscalculation on what this war would look like, how hard it would be, and we ve seen that again and again and again. when i just went back to ukraine recently and spoke to defense minister and president zelenskyy and we heard from our embassy on the ground there about what was going on, we heard about these problems and morale that the russian troops were facing. we saw the horrible events of bucha and the human rights catastrophe and the war crimes committed. this is not a military professional well-run, organized