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The others like general, the chief of the general staff and commander of the forces in ukraine, htheir relationships evolve whether or not they can keep their positions, whether or not somebody to is perhaps more aligned with prigozhin takes over the defense pin ministry. these are questions that we dont know answers to yet. those are the the things that i will be looking for. also be looking for how at a tactical level prigozhins forces, the wagner group elements integrate into the military. ar...

And this reconnaissance force, trying to find scenes and areas they can break through and then to commit their main forces. we still have seen only a very small number of the new nine or so western-equipped armored brigades and then, of course, when they do that, to achieve combined arms effects with tanks and infantly, with defense, with engineers, artillery, mortars and good command and control, logistics right up behind them and follow-on forces ready to exploit the opportunities that are cre...

Casualties here, i dont think the facts support that. prigozhin is claiming three other helicopters and a russian transport. we cant find the evidence to support that. it may materialize later. given the internal security problems russia was having, one being a surprise and two not being able to act, this was russia, centralized command and control. we are decentralizing the united states military. we let tactical commanders make decisions based on whats in front of them. russian commands and co...

Not necessarily a good thing. do not get me wrong i am no fan of putin and i would like to see him not be the leader of russia, but you have to look at the global political element, wagner group has its arms and lots of different places around the world, africa, the middle east, number countries and autocrats rely on the wagner group for their own security and to prop up their regimes. we need to keep a close eye on whether those mercenary �*s withdrawal from those areas, withdrawal from those...

Being integrated -- they are trying to integrate them into the russian military, many of them have criminal records and they believed in prigozhins cause, presumably, which clashed with the russian militarys cause. how -- do you see those mercenaries signing up to the russian military and if they dont whats going to happen to them? >> max, i think, first of all, putin seems to be unleashed forces beyond his control by your rendering the states monopoly on the use of force, allowing not only this...

To bring them in together. now, if they stay a separate force off to the side but still in the command and control, they may work. but i guarantee he and prigozhin have been at each others threats. so it will be a very, very difficult task for wagner to have influence on the ground in ukraine. i look at what the wagner group can do, if theyre still part of the ministry of defense going forward, what are their influences in africa and ukraine? >> russian-state tv aired a four-day old interview wi...

Embarrassing to putin all around, just hours before he did this, deal he went on national television and gave a very tough speech where he told the people of russia, im going to crush this rebellion, and these traders, then just hours later he cut this deal allowing this progression to go freely to belarus. so it is not a great look for vladimir putin, who always likes to look like a strong and in command. >> you know, we learn through -- a spokesperson that a criminal case against prigozhin wil...

Will he lash out? and the russian military high command, the defence minister, shoigu, the chief of staff, gerasimov, these are guys that putin... he had been estranged from them in recent days. perhaps the one thing he had in common with prigozhin is neither of them liked the way the war was being prosecuted at some point, and it was a few days ago that the us intelligence community began to see the signs of this — that prigozhin might have been stockpiling ammunition and weapons. what was he...

Again express my deepest sympathies to the families. on saturday i had the opportunity to travel to st. johns to speak with family members directly. for those that i did not have the opportunity to meet with, i extend my deepest condolences on behalf of the united states coast guard and the members of the unified command. as i have continued to stress throughout, this case has been extremely complex, involving a coordinated international, inter-agency and private sector response in an unforgivin...

It is held pretty tightly by the russian military. at the same point, that is a dangerous situation should vladimir putin suddenly lose power. who would take over? in some ways, with the soviet union bell, it was not entirely safe. there was some sort of china command that took over, and things phone to place. if putin were to suddenly vanished, when you have nuclear weapons at their disposal, theres lots of military units or intelligence services, would be in a dangerous state for some time bef...