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inside russia. right now vladimir putin is still in charge. in fact, he might have just spoken for the first time since the attempted rebellion over the weekend. we ll tell you what he said and why there are questions about when and where this new video of putin the kremlin released this morning has come from. it has been a confusing and volatile 72 hours. longtime ally yevgeny prigozhin began and quickly called off an attempt to overtake the military leaders. how close did he get? why suddenly did he turn around? putin is known for viciously crushing dissent. why exactly did he let prigozhin go? the warlord hasn t been publicly seen or heard from since he apparently fled on saturday. we have reporters in moscow, ukraine and the white house along with experts on russia, putin and prigozhin. whatever happens in russia will have a profound impact not just on the stability of that country, but far-reaching consequences for the war in ukraine and well beyond that. it can ....
Fighting the war in ukraine? how effective can they be now that he possibly is taken out of the equation? frankly, we don t even know that much, if he will no longer have control over these forces in some way. antony blinken, the secretary of state, was asked about this, about what kind of effect could this have, wagner forces being taken out of the mix in ukraine and can ukraine take advantage of it. he was asked this on meet the press over the weekend. take a listen. where this goes, whether those forces remain in ukraine, whether they become integrated into the regular russian military, weight it means for wagner in africa, too soon to tell. the fact that this is at the least an added distraction for putin and for russia i think is to the advantage of ukraine. it continues to move forward with the counteroffensive. reporter: we ve been talking to the spokesperson for the forces on the eastern front. he says there s no tactical ....
That he effectively has been exiled to belarus. the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko president putin who on a number of occasions have helped other leaders, often autocrats to stay in power, needing help from a leader outside russia himself through the weekend. we heard from lavrov, suggesting saying the u.s. ambassador did reach out and said the u.s. has not interfered in any sense and looking for reassurance about russia s nuclear capabilities. defense minister shoigu is in charge, as well as president putin, of almost half the world s nuclear warheads that russia has. so lavrov making that clear and also saying something else which i think is interesting and perhaps might be a good indication of what we might hear from the russians looking ahead, ....
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If there is an opportunity for the ukrainian army to make gains here, are there conversations among members of congress about the u.s. who has already invested so much money, so much time and effort in ukraine, to help them do that, to take advantage of an opportunity? i would hope what this does is reenforce the members of congress, particularly some of my republican colleagues who were talking about not continuing funding ukraine, that this is why it is important, to make sure we are funding ukraine and to push forward. what may be happening here is this great power wheel, you talk about the longevity of this war, is weakening russia more than it s weakening ukraine. we ve got to make sure we keep ukraine strong. clearly, when you look at the number of individuals there s been death on both sides, but the tremendous loss of weapons and of people on the russian side, the longer it takes place, it could be we re thinking it s going to hurt ukraine. it could be really hurting russia ....