we begin with a stunning reversal of the rebellion and russia. wagner fighters, led by getting a rousing send off of a wild 24-hour march on moscow. it began when he announced that man had taken over headquarters and rostov, and it has leading a so-called justice march towards moscow. fighting was reported along the way, and wagner forces got stopped to yell its before moscow. you called off the rebellion and agreed to leave russia. russian residents getting a heroes sendoff. russian officials said he agreed to travel to belarus. a lot of questions about what happened, and what comes next. analysts now chalk it up to a murky power struggle. i don t think it was a stunt. i think it was a mutiny. i think that s the right word. not a coup d état, a fight among armed forces to take over, but to be loyal to putin with dramatic consequences for undermining stability and the consolidation of russian armed forces. questions still remain about the future in exile. i suspect h
To belarus. vladimir putin is still in power, but considerably weekends. he has come out of this, his image has been sharp police gates. he s been badly bruised after this entire episode, but still clings to the reigns of power. there are still so many questions as to what is going to happen in russia. it is still a very critical time, yasmin. what s going to happen to propose iain in exile in belarus? is he going to be able to live there freely and safely? we all know vladimir putin loathed betrayal, and is a vengeful person. how safe is he? are his royal members of the wagner group going to join the russian defense ministry, or are they going to cause more problems? is he going to have any square over these 25,000 troops that are still on that border with ukraine? then what happens to the defense ministry? there were a lot of allegations
I think that putin, at this, point these to have some sort of peace so that this didn t spiral out of control but i would imagine at some point with prigozhin just over and belarus, believers in a country that is alive with russia in many ways, the fight in ukraine, i don t know how prigozhin makes it overtime without feeling some sort of brought a retaliation. i would note that both putin and prigozhin come from the roots of st. petersburg after the fall the soviet union. that s how they met up together. prigozhin has worked in done a lot of the dirty work for russia for at least the last two decades on behalf of vladimir putin. that extends quite a way beyond what s going on in ukraine. prigozhin and the wagner group to a lot of operations in africa. prigozhin operates the patriot media group that generates propaganda stations, and
I think it s important to note that the storm has been brewing for many months. there has been a lot of issues between prigozhin and the russian ministry of defense. you might remember in the february, march timeframe, we were talking about the one year anniversary of the war. russia was pushing a move. that was the prigozhin, wagner group, those doing all the fighting. the russian military was really in reserve. the sort of transition, we can all see it coming. it was very clear. prigozhin was very open about. it what i d imagine is pretty remarkable, the number of forces that prigozhin was able to pull out of ukraine. i m sure for everyone that was watching this conflict, they can see that this was starting to happen. this is the second part, was they started pushing towards that area was in the interior of russia. it s the military center. i m sure there were all sorts
Are turning back our convoy. early saturday, the group sees the city of rostov-on-don, the military headquarters for russia s war nearby ukraine. armored vehicles taking over the streets. wagner fighters on patrol, pulling out just hours ago. prigozhin s ruthless private army has been key to bolstering forces in ukraine, especially in a symbolic important city of bakhmut, which wagner says it finally captured in may at an estimated cost of tens of thousands of lives. for months, he s criticize russia s defense minister and the man in charge of the worn ukraine. the fight leading to an open insurrection on friday. prigozhin claiming the defense minister ordered this attack on his fighter, is accusing the military of launching the war in ukraine based on lies. early saturday, demanding the military leadership meet him and rostov-on-don, vowing to