this is our special coverage out of russia. the head of wagner group, the leader released a statement. therefore, realizing all the responsibilities for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides we turn our columns and move in the opposite field of the camps. officials claim their president had reached a deal with the wagner boss to halt his troops. earlier, he said his private army seizeded control of russian military facilities in it two critical cities. that is half way on the road to moscow. president putin called the actions a betrayal and stab notice back to the russian people. and he warned anyone who followed pergosian will pay a price. these are bulldogs and gangsters and the fight is way out into the open. it is a very serious one. we have full coverage of the breaking news. we have cnn chief international security correspondent with us nick paton walsh, national security reporter natasha bertrand. nick, i guess the question now is not onl
fred, first of all, give us a better sense of who this prigozhin really is. reporter: certainly, wolf, he is one of the most powerful figures in russia. and obviously, grasping forbe even more right now, but certainly didn t start out that way. wes in jail for several years, in the 1980s in the soviet union and then started out selling hot dogs, in the saint petersburg area, and then became known as putin s chef, and that s where his career really took a meet rick rise, and now he is obviously someone who is not only defying putin but also challenging the ministry of defense. here is what he know about yevgeny prigozhin. he s long been a well-known mercenary leader around the world. now, yevgeny prigozhin is a wanted man in russia as well. he s often, his often merciless group of fighters is pitted against the russian military leadership and prigozhin is suddenly moscow s public enemy number one. vladimir putin calling for
world, now yevgeny prigozhin is a wanted man in russia as well. he s often group of fight serz pitted against the russian military leadership and prigozhin is suddenly moscow s public enemy number one. vladimir putin calling for prigozhin s group to lay down their arms. translator: all those who deliberate choose the path of treachery, who prepare an armed mutiny and chose the path of blackmail and terrorist methods will face punishment and answer to the law and to our people. reporter: he may now be something of a nemesis to vladimir putin but it was his decade s long relationship with the russian president that allowed prigozhin to establish his own militia, the wagner group. wagner served as a private army doing controversial jobs that often not even russia s military could do. prigozhin, a former prisoner himself and self-styled hard man from st. petersberg used wagner.
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by and large we opened the door for this flood of jihadis and terrorists coming into fight bashar al-assad, and they don t want democracy and freedom, they are determined to establish an islamist state. he will go one way or the other but that will not resolve the problems or the region s. with respect to the general, heather h the real development that slipped under the radar over christmas was moscow changing its tone. it s been a real supporter of bashar al-assad and the u.n., suddenly moscow seems to be seeing sad requires on the way out, they can t say him. they say it s okay to give him asylum. russia will not give him asylum and it seems to me that the russians are sending signals now to the opposition that, let s talk. because what the russians wanted in there they wanted to keep our number one arab ally, bashar al-assad. he s going, now they want to keep their naval case. there are so many layers and