signs it seems for now perhaps cooling off. thousands of mercenaries who have fought for russia and ukraine have been marching rapidly towards moscow as they turned on vladimir putin. just in the last half hour halting their dance we are told on the capitol the head of the wagner groups and he gave the order to avoid shedding russian blood. this, after letter potent valid decisive action against what he calls treason. it is ongoing and fluid situation here at fox news we are on top of it all. hello everyone what would fox s life i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i m arthel neville. today stunning developments represent the first major challenge to putin s decades long grip on power. the head of the wagner group is a long time kremlin. he has been increasingly critical of russia s military in recent weeks. he says his forces have seized key russian military facilities knew that near the ukraine border. again they are being ordered to return to their fi
seconds left what he thanks going happen in the next week? will putin still be in power? will there be resignations? what is the result? putin will remain in power absolutely. it is possible that the defense industry will go. putin is possibly looking for a way to get rid of yevgeny prigozhin he s not liked because he is not a military person is no military background. putin himself gave him that. this conflict is going to go on. the supposed conflict because they want to distract us. and look, president biden just pulled out some of his leaders from trips. we are watching this, we are hyper focused on this. in the meantime putin is going to gain momentum, mobilize additional personnel and re- energize his offensive on
deployment of nato forces into the theater into ukraine. in which case he would almost certainly lose the war. and so he wants to demonstrate the cognitive disconnect in the analysis of washington establishment specifically president biden. on the one hand people like lindsey graham and others in president biden himself said this man can no longer remain in power. on the other hand they are saying he is weak but then they are saying he is going to go after a nato country but if he is a week putin wants to believe that he is weak. that there is an ongoing threat of a military insurrection. there is an actual doctrine called reflexive control that the general staff has developed. what does it mean?
those are things have to be of grave concern to the bite administration right now. i am sure it is a high priority requirement for intelligence community. russia s nuclear weapons putin s plans and intentions and who might follow vladimir putin? who might that be? those are things i m sure president biden is asking about right now. there is also a policy opportunity for the united states to jump into this and say look, russia can find their way back into the community of nations if they withdraw from ukraine. vladimir putin may not have it off a but russia does if they do the right thing. at this point it s hard to imagine anything getting any better in russia. i once did see that happen when i was there. there s an opportunity for president biden chooses bully pulpit to try in some capacity to influence this for the be better. except putin would not take the olive branch than who could in russia? that is the question.
george w administration. quickset part is indeed the crux of this consternation if you will. you heard the general say you have got to maintain in alert status here. so will president biden in his administration and allies maintain a measured posture which we have seen thus far? official time and they do not want president biden to be the face of this that s why you have not seen him publicly today. president biden issue heard earlier in the report he is spoken to his closest nato allies in europe. certainly everyone is watching situation but nobody wants to be seen as influencing the situation. we heard early the russian foreign minister saint anyone supporting the mercenary army of the wagner group this going to be essentially to pay for moscow. so right now people are looking at this very closely. but do not want to put a face on this right now. arthel: yes, i understand but lucas tomlinson thank you very much life in the white house will speak to you again within