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Ukraine today, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen. the attack came as the exiled oligarch who led the short-lived russian military mutiny over the weekend arrived in neighboring belarus. russia says the mercenary wagner group is preparing to hand over its heavy weapons butte cbs s ian lee is tracking the latest development from kyiv. reporter: this was the last sighting of wagner yevgeny prigozhin, seen driving from a russian city of rostov after failed mutiny. to become a belarusian president alexander lukashenko said the mercenary leader had landed in his country. his flight into exile fulfilled part of his stated deal with the russian president v president vladimir putin. lukashenko shed more light on the chaos that gripped rush on saturday, when wagner mercenaries defied putin and march toward moscow. lukashenko said he told prigozhin that putin would squash them like a dog as wagner moved closer to the city. despite being called a traitor, ....
Before unprecedented deal with president putin, it was brokered by another president, belarusian leader alexander lukashenko. apparently allowing the man behind the insurrection to go unpunished and into exile. it was the biggest challenge to vladimir putin s power in 23 years. the president called prigozhin s rebellion a betrayal. and a stab in the back. what is striking about, it it is internal. the fact that you have from within someone directly put questioning the authority of putin, over the weekends, wagner forces were coming out of ukraine and going into russia, toward moscow, in and of itself that is extraordinary. nbc news has learned that u.s. intelligence agencies were aware that prigozhin was planning a challenge to russia s senior military leaders briefing congressional leaders about it last week. according to a source familiar with the matter. at the very, least president putin has more problems today than he did yesterday with unknown consequences for his so-called s ....
Rivalry between wagner and the ministry of defense. prigozhin has accused the ministry of defense of denying his men ammunition, of treating them like cannon fodder. he said his men refused to join the regular army and then were attacked. he said they were attacked by helicopters, that 30 of his fighters were killed. at that stage, he said they broke into two column, one heading to the city of rostov, where they delivered their weapons, and there was video of them in the city of rostov being greeted by the locals, in some cases, being celebrated and cheered, and the other column heading toward moscow. he said they stopped short of moscow because they achieved their aims. he said the goal was never to topple the government, but was to express their displeasure with the ministry of defense and to show how vulnerable russia had become because of the ministry of defense, because of the incompetence of the leadership, and he said had wagner been in charge of the war from the beginning that ....
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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 ....