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challenge to vladimir putin during his 23 years in power in russia is truly over. that announcement, by the way, of the pullback comes as officials from neighboring belarus claim successful talks with the wagner chief to stop the military columns advance. u.s. officials say they re closely monitoring this still-unfolding situation in russia, and that president biden is being continually updated by his top national security team. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in london, and this is a special edition of the situation room. our correspondents and analysts are standing by to bring you full coverage of these major developments that are unfolding right now like only cnn can. let s go straight first to our chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh. nick, these are fast-moving developments, historic moments unfolding. what s the latest? reporter: we have a full 180 from yevgeny prigozhin, the head of wagne
Yevgeny-prigozhin-whetherMultitasker-putin-s-russiaApparentTurnaroundMercenary-wagner-groupSecurity-forcesCapitalMilitary-insurrectionMarch-toward-moscowMercenary-wagnerVladimir-putinOfficialsEvents. wolf? this drama is by no means over, not yet. nick paton walsh reporting, thank you so much. i want to bring in our national security reporter, natasha bertrand, joining us from the pentagon. u.s. forces believe pittsrigozh had been planning this for some time. my colleagues and i did learn that u.s. intelligence officials had been tracking the potential for yevgeny prigozhin to conduct some kind of major challenge to russia s military leadership. and they actually briefed congressional leaders known as the gang of eight on these potential plans by prigozhin this week. it is unclear to u.s. officials and was unclear at the time that they briefed congressional leaders what exactly that would look like. would prigozhin actually take his forces and storm a russian city. they simply did not know at the time how this challenge to
Natasha-bertrandSecurityEventsReportingNick-paton-walshDramaOfficialsSecurity-forcesIntelligenceU-sColleaguesPotentialHow much do the threats putin is now facing, ambassador, actually stem from his invasion of ukraine more than a year ago? so i think it s becoming clearer and clearer, wolf, that president putin made a bad mistake. one of the interesting things that came out over the last several days from prigozhin was his assertion, was his description of the rationale for the invasion. prigozhin says there were no russians that were in danger in ukraine, there was no there were no nazis in ukraine, there was no threat from ukraine to russia, that nato was not going through ukraine to threaten russia. that was all fake, according to prigozhin. i think the russian people, lot of russians, certainly prigozhin has pointed out that there was no rationale for the thousands, the tens of thousands of russian soldiers that have been killed. good point.
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