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Cnn international correspondent ivan watson reports on how those crucial hours played out from beginning to end. >> reporter: a weekend of chaos and drama in russia. mercenaries declared a mutiny and then called it off in under 24 hours. yevgeny prigozhin issued a call for rebellion. the head of the wagner mercenary group accusing top russian military commanders of gross mismanagement of the war in ukraine. then prigozhin released video of an alleged russian air strike on a wagner camp in ukrain...

Sergey Shoygu meets with commanders of West group of forces.

Tall details but again chrng the commanders of the armed forces saying theres continued progress around bakhmut. we were hearing from russian state media suggestions that 3,000 rebel fighters or mercenary fighters working for russia may have been redeployed to defend moscow, may have come from the bakhmut area but ukrainian officials are digesting what the changes in russian forces after this weekend may mean for the front lines themselves. obvious signs of change, ukrainian president volodymyr ...

And trying to understand what actually is happened? >> what is happening? >> there is no shortage of opinions from experts as to who, what, why. prigozhin, careful military man, business man, but the most important is putin is weakened. its like the spied never the jar. the one who will get out of it will be wounded and weakened. >> but you need to be careful about people like prigozhin. be careful what you wish for is what we say in the west. >> we have no mistake. but the problem is that they ...

Riveting revolt shows that putin made a, quote, big strategic mistake with the invasion of ukraine. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken said it shows cracks in putins power. so are there any immediate weaknesses that ukraine can exploit on the battlefield against russian forces there? cnns nick paton walsh is in kyiv. nick, we know the ukrainian military is claiming some small gains on the eastern and southern front in the last 24, 48 hours. is it possible those advances are connected to a pe...

Crisis in dealing with the wagner group because these are hardened soldiers who are very loyal to prigozhin, especially those fighting with him in ukraine. its hard to imagine theyd turn around and let themselves be commanded by regular russian military commanders whom by all accounts they dont have much respect for. then theres the global wagner operation, mostly located in africa and in the middle east. thats also been overseen prigozhin. for now the russian government may need him. >> do you ...

Asking difficult questions and i think ordinary russians, the people in the street will also have been pretty gobsmacked by what has happened over the past couple of days, the fact that prigozhin was allowed to mount this challenge in itself is a weakening of putins authority. itself is a weakening of putins authori . �* ., ., , ., authority. and the main opposition leader is still _ authority. and the main opposition leader is still buying _ authority. and the main opposition leader is still ...

Main characters. what can you tell us about what is happening now? well, i can tell you that there have just been pictures published by russian state media that show the defence minister supposedly visiting forward positions, a command post, of the russian military in its war on ukraine, inspecting positions, talking to commanders. the point of thatis talking to commanders. the point of that is to show very clearly that the defence minister, who was looking extremely vulnerable after this mutiny...

Commanders and soldiers of the wagner private company who took the right decision to stop and go back and prevent bloodshed. and i urge everybody to make contact with the ministry of defense or go back to their homes. this promise will be fulfilled. i repeat, it is the choice of each of you, but it will be a choice of the warriors of russia who have acknowledged their fault. president lukashenko should be thanked also for his role in all of this, in order to achieve a peaceful resolution. it is ...

Any more blood. he urged them to contact the ministry of the defense or to go home. he said its a choice of each of you, essentially join the russian army or go home. masha, youre still with us. what do you make of what you just heard? >> it seems putin hasnt decided what hes going to do. hes keeping his options open. his reference to the wagner commanders who made the decision to turn around and go home is i think purposely vague. it could even include prigozhin himself if prigozhin were to exh...