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russia. another hour of christiansen reports starts right now. ight now good morning, it is sunday june 25th. i am chris jansing. velshi is in -- hes making his way to ukraine to report on the events of the last few days. thats where we begin this hour. an extraordinary, tell, and potentially game changing 24 hours. this morning, this leads the u.s. and the world with questions in the aftermath of the greatest threat in vladimir putins 23 year rule. its weakened his authority? but does...

hi there, everyone. im nicole wallace, thanks for being here with us. weve got a lot of places you get your news today, were glad youre joining us. four pm in the east, its 11 pm in moscow. were following breaking news this hour, with the latest on the revolt unfolding in russia. and we see news is confirming, yevgeny prigozhin is the head of the wagner group, which is a private mercenary army in russia, thats done a lot of the fighting in the war in ukraine. he has called for his mosc...

jon: it is perhaps the most serious challenge to the vladimir putins authority, although at this moment it appears the challenge has edged. yevgeny prigozhin has turned his forces around and is said to be heading back to belarus. lets check in with our greg palkot whos covering the story from that part of the world. greg. >> reporter: jon, it looks like were back on the brink in russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv, but it also looks like a lot of damage wa...

overthrow vladimir putin. and were learning more about where yevgeny prigozhin might be at this hour. also ahead, ukraine tries to make the most of russias crisis on the battlefield after a slow, bloody start to their counter offensive. plus, president bidens first public comments on everything thats unfolding in russia, and on capitol hill, lawmakers voicing their concerns but will that translate to more dollars and supplies for ukraine? our nbc news reporters are following all of t...

christian dog ran, nbc news. >> teamwork making the dream work. and on that note, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> its really good to have you here. before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine and the world, david remnick was a moscow correspondent for the washington post. he in fact won the pulitzer prize for his landm...

bases. russian ally and neighbor in belarus helped broker a deal with prigozhin, to escalate the situation. prigozhin agreed to leave russia for asylum batters, but not before getting a heroes sendoff from russian residents. [crowd chanting] [sound of gunfire] >> nbc news correspondent ali arouzi joins me now, live from london. ali, thank you for being here. the situation in russia has changed dramatically in the last 24 hours, whats happening there now? >> jonathan, it has been an ext...

michael mcfaul says russia could be coming closer to a compromise with ukraine. >> the idea that the only thing that we can do to end the war in ukraine is to give them a face sitting way out which usually translates to by the way giving him ukrainian tele-tory think this is a whole episode has really undermine the hypothesis. maybe putin will negotiate not when hes winning or not when hes given a gift of territory in ukraine but when hes using, as he just did yesterday. >> joining me ...

it is difficult for us to exclude today up of the wagner group in belarus could pose a potential threat to poland which shares a border with belarus. herthreat which shares a border with belarus. her threat to lithuania which also has the longest border with belarus among other countries and also to latvia, a neighbour of belarus. 0ne one of the eu leaders meeting for a two day meeting in brussels. central to the summit will be the role china will play. it is said to call on china to h...

im a legitimate person. >> thats donald trump addressing leaked audio recordings in which he appears to show-off classified u.s. defense plans to people at his new jersey golf club. well have all the new developments in that case as well as the evolving defense from trump and his legal team. also ahead well go through the monumental decision from the supreme court, a ruling that could prevent the big lie from playing a role in future elections. plus house speaker kevin mccarthy walks...

belarus. tonight uncertainty remains for the people of russia. ukraine and across the globe. alex hogan janes us from london. >> a dr. plattic day cooling off after a deal was brokered. yevgeny prigozhin calling off his troops just as they were to arrive outside moscow. this is prigozhin leaving rostov-on-don. he vowed not to surrender. russian president vladimir putin vowed harsh punishment. it was the bell rushian president will y wil -- the bele situation. earlier today russias town...