lukashenko, speaking out as prigozhin himself settles in. the wagner group leader is in belarus after a failed mutiny in russia. but he s not saying much and has no plans to. he doesn t want to, as you just heard there, speak to nobody including vladimir putin. prigozhin might want to lay low. david petraeus still recommends he be careful around open windows. the general is here. first, fox team coverage in kyiv on how ukraine is capitalizing on the chaos and jennifer griffin in washington on how the pentagon is responding to the chaos. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. let s get to it with greg first in ukraine. greg? hi, neil. first, a reminder that russia is still very much in this war. the eastern ukrainian town slammed by a russian missile. big damage done. this as putin put a spin on it. he called the wagner mercenary group blackmail, doomed to failure. in belarus, president lukashenko who helped strike a deal in dark terms. if he said if russian
the wagner group if they go to belarus. although they can do the overseas missions. there s some that will go home as well, i suspect. so again, what kind of force is left? who are the leaders there? does anybody really want to rise up against putin? i don t think so, actually. i think neil: even after the way he acted on saturday, general, but, you know, fleeing moscow in the face of what looked like an imminent attack on moscow from this rag tag group of a few thousand soldiers? goes to st. peters berg. i get that. returns. hardly a churchillian moment for him. no. he did what zelensky refused to do. he didn t ask for ammunition or go to the front lines, for did the chief of the general staff or defense minister. they re all weakened. calls in to question his leadership. the question is who might next be willing to take a strike
the united states cut off russian banks and ability to deal with western banks, putin would i think become very actively involved in what s going on the ground in ukraine immediately. the other aspect of it is is what if ukraine were fast forward in membership into nato. i don t know. but i do know that vladimir putin could stop this if he wanted to. yes. there s no doubt about it. and again the new york times reporting that a lot of these protesters were paid. it does bear a striking resemblance to what s happened in crimea. and if we sit back on our heels and continue to just issue weak warnings from the white house, he s going to be in kiev. so we ll see. coming up, we have congressman steny hoyer and valerie jarrett. later morning joe goes to st. louis for the home opener.