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Russias most capable, highly decorated commanders. whats unclear is if the kremlin still trusts him. erin, the kremlin tonight is still refusing to comment on where the general might be. the ombudsman for prison flz moscow has come out with a denial that the general is in any of the facilities, any of the prisons, jails inside moscow, inside the capital city. that only further deepens the mystery of where and why this prominent russian commander has vanished. erin? >> it is incredible. the murki...

People were shocked after the first year of the war, life was back. so it was devastating for us, but the use of the precise weapon also really matters — during our previous investigation, we were able to prove that it was a cluster munition used, which hitting a human infrastructure, not a military structure, which can be a mounted as a war crime. in this particular space its a really peaceful place, and even if you think that there were military there, there were no military commanders, peop...

>> we have looked into -- or we are i should say looking into reports of the arrest that you mentioned. cnn is working to confirm them. obviously we will bring that news as it comes out. but should we anticipate a purge by putin of some of his top officials, especially if he considers them threats? >> that could be a course of action, boris. but truthfully i think theres a problem with that because russia is currently in a defensive state. they have their defensive operations ongoing against an ...

Commanders are absolutely incompetent, which is what is really, really shocking to me. >> i thank you all very much. i appreciate your time. , and next, im going to speak to a former speech writer for the russian president. why he believes that putin may soon appoint his successor. plus, a u.s. marine on the front lines here. ill speak to an american veteran who has been fighting with ukraine since the start, leaving behind his wife and newborn son. hell tell you why hes doing it. and ill t...

10:30 local time. prigozhin calling for a march for justice into russia, not a coup, he insisted. by 7:30 saturday morning, prigozhin facing little resistance, takes over russias military headquarters in rostov-on-don, berating to russian senior commanders, demanding they hand over shoigu. president putin then going on national television, accusing prigozhin of treason, vowing to put down the uprising. by saturday afternoon, wagner troops are on the moves to moscow. at one point, video showing t...

Putins good favor? if in fact he is in belarus, could he try to launch an attack on the ukraine from there? or with the help of belarus? >> maybe, but im skeptical. the one reason, because of what putin talked about tonight. he gave this speech, it was a five minute speech, but it was aimed at dividing prigozhin and his other commanders from the other fighters of the wagner group. by the way, thats exactly what prigozhin was trying to do several days ago when he was trying to tell the normal sol...

Very sensitive issues like that, the message to ukraine and nato was, cool it, exercise caution. now that the crisis has passed, i think ukraine will want to exploit every opportunity to advance against a somewhat demoralized russian force. how well this force can be coordinated by its leadership, by defense minister shoigu who has been directly attacked, humiliated in prigozhins statements by the chief of staff, similarly attacked by prigozhin. that were going to have to wait and see. will puti...

Would not respond to his, putins calls. lukashenko also revealed that he got prig on the phone and that -- told prigozhin that he would be crushed like a bug if he continued on to moscow. >> translator: the most dangerous thing as i understand it is not what the situation was but how it would develop and its consequences. this was the most dangerous thing. i also realized there was a harsh decision taken to destroy. i suggested putin not to hurry. lets talk with prigozhin, with his commanders. >...

>> my pleasure. >> ukraines president zelenskyy visited frontline troops today giving a combat citations and getting a briefing from one of the regional commanders. he is firmly the wagner rebellion as positive for the war efforts. cnns ben wedeman is in eastern ukraine as well, joins us now. so, how has this impacted things on the ground in ukraine? at this point, anderson, it is not altogether clear. what we are seeing, anderson, im sorry, im having problems. anderson what we understand is tha...

Divert attention from this attack to instill greater — re—establishes community not only within his regime but the russian people, to try to edit escalate horizontally so i would watch and monitor carefully the borders with russia. the fact that the russian armed forces have been demonstrated to be so inept that they could not even really handle a mutiny by a small force, not an insignificant force, not an insignificant force, but a force that should have been easily crushed, probably demons...