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Anxiety in russia and confusion across the world and probably no more so than in ukraine itself. and thats where youll find our greg palkot with the latest in kyiv. >> and youve got to believe the officials in kyiv are watching closely and actually its a story thats moving minute by minute, with potential impact on the battle here in this country, and maybe outside of this country as well. its been called russian vladimir putins toughest test, among other things, an attempted coup, an armed upri...

Far that prigozhin is not running into much resistance on his way. what do you make of it? >> yeah, its quite breathtaking, neil, certainly. weve watched this unfold for month barry prigozhin was criticizing the ministry of defense, certainly the minister himself, the head of the military, and specifically criticism of incompetence in running this war and he kept it up and up. now, putin has always permitted the vision among the groups that are supporting him because he never wants a particular ...

Attacks by russia on ukraine. we saw one of our busiest nights since weve been here, 20 cruise missiles were fired at kyiv and most of them were shot down, but there was some damage, some destruction. later on, however, ukrainian president zelenskyy went on telegram and said, russias weakness is obvious, full scale weakness, the longer russians keep the mercenaries and troops on our lands more problems for h itself. and another message, this person says, what is going on right now inside russia ...

So if he is saying, for instance that there are fighter jets in poland, for instance, a nato country, and hes saying that he might -- he was very unclear, he said we will see what we will do. but that is a threat, that he would attack a nato country to destroy those planes. thats very serious, because that does start a war. so, again, hes pushing the envelope, hes hinting, hes not precise in what hes saying. but its another scare tactic, dont try this, otherwise i could come. and he used the phr...

This bloody criminal war in ukraine. and using people like prigozhin to try to grind up the ukrainian army to take territory in the east. it is important to understand what is going on. and when you have not a lot of information, all you could do is read tea leaves and try to decipher the few public statements that these people make. >> so andrei, describe for us your answer to this question. what is going on. because you have a wonderful foreign affairs essay where you make some very informed s...

Disastrous chechen war that at some moment both the significant, to putins predecessor yeltsin. putin understands that. he wants to avoid it and just in case he wants to keep his military in line. he cannot tolerate a proper competition between his security services, so he cannot put his national guard against the army or the fsb against svr because it would be too risky for him, but to use someone like prigozhin who does have some independent income, but at the same time he doesnt have any poli...

Hill, theyll say we have to wait until the ukrainian counter offensive. clearly something has begun in terms of shaping -- like the incursion in bakhmut, but were still waiting for the main event and i think it is anybodys guess. people are trying to be conservative and judicial in their predictions. people think that it will be much more difficult than the fall offensive when ukraine won back kharkiv and kherson. but at this point, people in the west say, in washington, at least in official was...

Prigozhin, and i think this is because putin doesnt have a real system of check and balances so he needs, specially with this war, he needs to rely on some completely unorthodox methods to keep his people, the military generals and his elites, if not under control, but a list of balance. prigozhin, who is happy to play the role of weak jester, while he is happy to provide putin with this option. so hes attacking these people sending a message that, look, you cannot be completely safe and nobody ...

Tolerate prigozhin and i think this is because putin doesnt have a real system of check and balances. so he needs -- especially with this war, he needs to reply on some completely unorthodox methods to keep his people, the military generals and his elites, if not under control, but at least off balance. prigozhin, who is happy to play a role of jester, while hes happy to provide putin with options or hes attacking these people sending a message that, look, you cannot be completely safe and nobod...

Sense? i think we always thought putin was very tightly in control. and the russian state was a very tightly knit operation. that he and his security elites, the fsb and such, were in complete control. the defense ministry on the army saluted. does this suggest that it is not -- you know, it is not that much of a kind of a vertical of power as we used to think? >> well, i think that putin was very much in control in the security services were very much in control. but as with everything in russi...