very little pushback, anita. he s taken over the main military headquarters demanding to see the russian defense chief and the head of the military. of but the other front that we re watching closely is it seems that he has sent about 5,000 of his mercenary members up the highway towards moscow, could be within about 200 miles. not much resistance either from the russian military inside russia, but we knew that the kremlin is on high alert, sort of a counterterrorism regime. vladimir putin, of course, has been lashing out how. many a video earlier today, he said that prigozhin s actions were internal betrayal, treason, and he s promising a harsh response which, frankly, we haven t seen yet. yes, here in kyiv still russia is waging its war against ukraine. we saw 20 the cruise missiles come in overnight here. just about all of them were shot down, but there was some damage. later on in an online message ukrainian president zelenskyy had this to say about what was happening in
Happening in russia: russia s weakness is obvious, full scale weakness, and the longer russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have for itself later. again, folks watching closely things here especially another development or, anita. chechnyan forces; that is, from chechnya farrell to vladimir putin, have also been operating in ukraine. well, they ve just left ukraine, and they re heading to process to have done, could get very interesting in the coming hour, anita that. anita: it s hard to keep up. so in this prigozhin clearly has command of his troop, and as you mentioned, he is moving at great speed toward moscow. what could happen next? reporter: well, frankly, it s really, anita, the next 24 the, 48, maybe 72 hours which will tell the tale. any military analyst would have to say that russia could be able
Milley has canceled his trip ireland i m sorry, to israel and jordan due to the situation going on in russia. so apparently the white house is a taking this very seriously. what do you want to the hear from the white house? what would give you a sense of comfort? what sort of statement from the white house do you want to hear? well, it would be nice to actually hear from the commander in chief. having the secretary of state convene a group of european foreign ministers isn t exactly a shining show of strength. and i think if the commander and chief came out and said that, you know, that this was something the united states did take very seriously, we ve got to remember russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. if putin is destabilized, we could be left with a nightmare scenario of a bunch of little russian statelets all with their nuclear arsenals which could be an enormous problem for the united states that would dwarf ukraine. we also have to keep an eye on what china
Last ten seconds here. this group is on the march to moscow. we hear they could get there in the next 24-36 hours. could we see a peaceful ending here? what do you think? that, to me, seems increasingly unlikely given the actors we have here. these aren t very peaceful people, to put it mildly, and i think if prigozhin really has crossed his version of the rubicon, there s no way that both he and the the minister of defense, shoigu, can survive this. i think putin s going to have to make a choice in that case, and it will be a very dicey situation in russia. anita: going to be a very interesting two days ahead of us. victoria cotes, thank you so much for joining us and your terrific insight. thank you. thank you. griff: let s get more insight into what s happening on the ground in russia from a man who s been in and out of russia since 1990.
This march of justice, got to believed to be somewhere in here. we re tracking the movements to figure out this fluid situation. but i want to clear the drug on the map there to the drawing on the map to talk about what opportunity this possibly could mean militarily for ukrainian troops as they re watching in this chaos play out on the russian side. yeah, and that really remains to be seen, what the you know side is going to do about this. this is an opportunity that you just couldn t even draw up in your wildest fantasies, and certainly they re going to want to do everything they can to take advantage of the chaos and the distraction among the russian fighters. so we already know that down and around this area is where a lot of the fighting s been taking place on both the north and south of bahkmut and the zap rose a ya area right here. zaporizhzhia area. so far it s been complete disaster for the ukraine side. they ve not been able to penetrate even the first line of the russi