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Military responds. i am certain that our government and nato allies and of course ukraine are looking to see morale in the russian troops in ukraine. to what extent were they happy about the way in which moscow handled the wagner mutiny? to what extent are they questioning theyre putting their lives on the line every day? we dont know that yet. but thats something to watch for in the days and weeks ahead. >> cnn, tim, has learned on president bidens call on saturday with other western leaders, t...

Wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin. his whereabouts arent known after the kremlin said he actually struck a deal to stand down. the agreement allows prigozhin to be exiled to belarus and have all criminal charges against him dropped. ivan watson explains how his insurrection started and what it says about putins grip on power. >> 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, th...

Minister is, we havent really heard from the head of the armed forces, two figures who prigozhin demanded to meet in a very aggressive way and has been very, very bitterly critical of them from the front lines in bakhmut in so many of those video statements that he made. so at the moment i think the kremlin is rattled, is trying to figure out what to do next and breathing an enormous sigh of relief that this has not metastasized, at least not yet, world. >> sam kiley, thank you very much. were a...

Let this all play out, that the u.s. had no intention of getting directly involved. is that caution warranted? >> yeah. the message from the administration, wolf, and from other nato countries was really this is an internal russian issue, this is a domestic dispute, we dont want any part of this. every u.s. official i spoke with, every diplomat i spoke with made the point that we are not at all involved. everyone saw this immediately for what it was, which is the biggest challenge of putins lead...

Has proper communication and in a dramatic announcement yesterday, the combative head of the organization said his troops would turn around after coming just 125 miles from moscow. >> translator: therefore realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and lead in the opposite directions to the field camps, according to the plan. >> it was the most serious challenge to russian president vladimir putins rule since he...

Intelligence officials just a couple days ago im told in the middle of the week briefed the gang of eight in congress. those are the most senior leaders of both chambers of congress. they also among them are the heads of the intelligence committees. this is something the intelligence community did believe was imminent. then when it was launched, wolf, there was an expectation that there would be a lot more resistance, that those wagner forces faced on their march towards moscow, that they would ...

Lukashenko. now the intelligence community here in washington really trying to figure out why is it that prigozhin stopped this march when it really appeared he had the upper hand, why was this deal struck and what, if anything, did prigozhin get out of it. wolf? >> the answers to those questions are really critical. nick, what signs are you seeing tonight that potentially could point to the future of prigozhin and his wagner forces? >> the fact that were not hearing from him indicates that he i...

Punish wagner and prigozhin i think is a reflection of his in inability to do so. its not new-found human because look what hes doing every day, lobbying missiles into ukrainian cities. its not like hes suddenly found humanity. what we see is weakness. >> as you know, the secretary of state antony blinken emphasized on cnn this morning that prigozhin actually questioned the entire premise of putins war in ukraine. how does that reverberate among russian society? >> lets wait and see. this is one...

Nick, one local russian official said 19 homes, 19 homes were damaged during clashes with the wagner forces. how much of this is really sinking in for russians today? >> i think the sense that it could have been much worse was really prevalent yesterday. the collective sigh of relief. i think weve seen some of the video where youve seen some of the big trucks, the prigozhins big military trucks driving down the road. one of them at least seemed to be burnt out. there was an incident caught on ca...