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Weapons. if you look at the battle in bakhmut, for instance, some of the firepower unleashed there by the artillery, by the tanks wagner had in its possession, that certainly seemed to be a professional army. and it was now yevgeny prigozhin seemed to be at the height of his power, but it appears as though hes gone one step too far, anderson. >> fred pleitgen, appreciate it. joining me now is russian journalist mikhail swreeger, the author of war and punishment, putin, zuplen skae, and the path ...

And provide information to ukraine. those people are loyal to the man, prigozhin, not to the country, not to the mission. so weve got a lot more questions that are not answered right now. but i think from that perspective, i think that group splinters up and goes away pretty quickly. >> if it is true, what we are being told, and none of the actors in this, prigozhin, you know, the leaders in belarus, the leaders of russia are reliable brokers and honest. so we have to take everything worth a gra...

Wagner troops have secured victories for the kremlin inside ukraine. founder prigozhin -- for his side business catering state events. >> prigozhin has lashed out at generals accusing them of port leadership. apple bomb writing in the atlanta quote the message was clear the russian military launched a pointless war killed tens of thousands of russian soldiers unnecessarily. how did they become so fed up with the kremlin? joining us barry -- thank you so much for your time. talk to us about the c...

He was going after his generals and having some chaos around him? >> hello, anderson. thank you for having me. yes, actually putin was really very concern because he didnt want the army to become very popular. and he didnt really want anyone to challenge him for power but has never thought that yevgeny prigozhin could be the person to be really dangerous. putin loves rat races. he loves giving the same orders to different people and watching them run, so he thought that prigozhin might be danger...

Cesar in exile, right? someone who can still threaten from abroad, someone who has enormous credibility as a military leader, who has loyal troops. although he separated from them for now. and someone whos anti-corruption, anti-elite. his anger at the sort of self-satisified oligarchs in moscow resonates very strongly. so he could be a future threat as well. again, i draw the analogy with a julius cesar, who came to power that way with his private army challenging the corrupt elite. as roman his...

War aid, taking three days and a year and a year and a half into the war, hes still hardly move forward at all. yet, if ghani prigozhin crosses practically all the way to moscow in 24 hours. this is humiliating for putin because his army did not stop him. one image that really struck me yesterday was the image of yevgeny prigozhin in the town of rostov, where his wagner group took the military headquarters early in the morning. he is sitting, having a cup of tea with two senior generals. one of ...

Robinhood figure, that hes actually more liked than putin. >> hes speaking up for his guys. the rank and file of the wagner group have gone through a meat grinder, tens of thousands killed in the ukraine war and they dont feel like theyve gotten the food, the ammunition they need. most russian generals -- russian generals are famous for saying who cares about the troops, keep going into the hail of bullets. if hes speaking out, saying i care about my men, there could be a grass roots level of su...

Thought he could pull this off. one of the things that did happen is that he defied vladimir putin very publicly and with that we did see almost immediately all of the players important to russias special military operation, the war this ukraine, going behind vladimir putin. you had the leader of chechnya and some russian generals telling prigozhin not to do this and that is where all of this then derailed where prigozhin then found that he was actually quite alone trying to march on to moscow a...

Single one of them who participated in this, all of the russian military bloggers, even the gru forces, the military forces that joined prigozhin along the way, they are dead man walking. we even saw a few high-profile generals look over to prigozhin. i dont believe that the rift is going to continue to the point that were going to see more of this chaos unraveling. >> you talked about paranoia. the times writes this -- quote, even assuming he holds on to power, policy makers worry that putin co...

Consistently denying ammunition in support to his man, and then killing his man. the fsb, the russian intelligence service, says that this is a coup. numerous generals have called on his man directly not to obey these orders, but if this is playing out the way it seems that it played out, it appears that these long brewing tensions are now turning into something of an insurrection. now, among journalists frankly, we have been watching this tension, as u.s. military officials have been watching, ...