extraordinary, and i think you ve seen cracks emerge that weren t there before. experts are warning this rare uprising by wagner group mercenaries could have consequences into the future with so much still uncertain. cnn s matthew chance reports now from moscow. wagner! wagner! wagner! reporter: for the kremlin, these are some of the most disturbing scenes from a weekend of shocking images. on the streets of a major russian city, rostov-on-don in the south, residents cheered wagner fighters as they withdrew. many russians see them as heroes, not as the traitors the kremlin paints them. and wagner s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, has become a celebrity too. watch his supporters hail down his car just to shake hands. the kremlin says he s now moving to belarus next door, but it s unclear if this is the last we ll see of him. what is definite, though, is a sense of relief, at least here in the russian capital. it s calm now, but in the mayhem of the weekend, moscow was on high
united states, and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead, new video released by russia is raising more questions than it answers, what it purports to show and what we do know following the brief insurrection. we are finally hearing from china on the weekends tumultuous events. go to hong kong for a live report. and, from this twister in the midwest to extreme heat in the south, we are following severe weather across much of the united states. live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. a short-lived armed rebellion inside russia has led to growing questions about vladimir putin s leadership, and whether his grip on power is weakening. moscow is quiet, now, with the mayor saying all security restrictions have been lifted. this, after the city was rattled over the weekend, as wagner group of mercenaries marched towards the capital. the uprising came to an abrupt end on saturday after a minsk- broke
the head of the mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin pictured here leaving the russian city of rostov on don on saturday evening is reportedly going into exile in belarus after abandoning his advance on moscow. and with wagnerforces firing their guns into the sky and cheers from the watching public, his troops also departed the city. just hours before, they had taken control of a military building with further wagner troops moving towards moscow, travelling north on the m4 motorway, passing the city of vuronezh, and were spotted as far north as lipetsk, which is around 300 miles south of moscow. then, in the early evening, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance. tensions had been building between mr prigozhin and russia s military leadership for some time over their approach to the war in ukraine. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. leaving as heroes. the wagnerfighters pulling out of rostov last night. you d think they d just won a war. the lea
the us secretary of state antony blinken says the events show the cracks in mr putin s authority. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group pictured here leaving the russian city of rostov on don on saturday evening is reportedly going into exile in belarus after abandoning his advance on moscow. and with wagnerforces firing their guns into the sky and cheers from the watching public his troops also departed the city. tensions had been building between mr prigozhin and russia s military leadership for some time, over their approach to the war in ukraine. leaving as heroes. the wagnerfighters pulling out of rostov last night. you d think they d just won a war. the leader of the mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, was off, too. he d just done a deal with the kremlin to end their mutiny. the rebellion started here, then spread north. it was the biggest challenge to vladimir putin s authority since he came to power. vladimir vladimirovich putin. russia s c