video of him leaving rostov-on-don, where he had taken control of a key russian military facility. the kremlin says, he is now heading to neighboring belarus, wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. again, all of this is from the kremlin and unverified by nbc news. new reporting from the washington post reads, quote, while putin seemed to avert his greatest prices crisis in more than 23 years as russia s supreme political leader, grief armed rebellion, presented the starkest evidence yet that his brutal invasion of ukraine could backfire. leading to instability at home and exposing his growing isolation from reality and weakness as a leader. joining us now from kyiv, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella, nbc news white house correspondent and on capitol hill, and pc news correspondent julie adjuster. kelly, let s start with you. how is the kremlin trying to explain what s unfolded over the past 24 hours? well alicia, it s interesting. they re not trying to explain, it t
nichols that this story is far from over. what are you watching for? it has been such a chaotic 24 hours. what are you watching for, ambassador, in the next 24 hours? well, it s true we don t know the full terms of this deal. and it is true that putin is weaker as a result of this. but it s also true that this seems to be a boil that has been building since basically october of last year. when prigozhin begin to go seriously after grimaces mo and shoigu, the chief general and minister of defense. and perhaps this tension has been glanced with this crisis. but again, putin is soon to be not quite the strong one. he is still alive, prigozhin still alive, and we don t know what the final dispute will be. there is the diplomatic piece of this, i wonder, given the wagner group has proven to be among russia s strongest forces in this war effort and ukraine, what happens if the