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Continue impact in russia in the short and long—term. its true that this rebellion has exposed many weaknesses, both of putin and the system that he is built. so, you know, he showed everybody he is unable to control a mercenary group that he himself contributed to create and strengthen. it was humiliating on many levels. for instance, is request from help from the central asian countries, his so—called allies like pakistan were rejected and he had to get help from lukashenko, who is conside...

In the meantime, now to russia and what we know at this hour. one day after wagner fighters marched towards moscow threatening armed insurrection. armed insurrection this are no longer marching toward roscoe but the putin regime remains. a russian official is calling this putins biggest humiliation. >> i think this was the guest mess so far, since the beginning of latimer putins rule nearly a century ago, because, actually, russia lost control of two major cities, over 1 million residents eats e...

In another hammer blow for Putin, his closest ally has been reported to have fled his country as Wagner troops threaten to take Moscow.

Happen. and when i was commander in europe, we watched that very closely. the actions inside of moscow would certainly affect the actions in places like tablisi, georgia, or some of the other stands. they have been under russias thumb. they have been under mr. putins thumb. and in fact, many of the soldiers that russia has deployed and mobilized have come from those outlying areas. and places like belarus, which is tenuous at best with mr. lukashenko, are now feeling like they dont have the supp...

Know that president putin has been calling some of his allies. the first call went as long—term ally the belarusian president lukashenko. he definitely spoke to him on the phone. also the president of kazakhstan said he is also spoken to president putin. he then issued a statement saying events in russia are its internal affair. rule of law is necessary to maintain order. also, in the last couple of minutes on the news wires, i have russian news agencies reporting from the kremlin that preside...

Figure than putin and far weaker than a few years ago. how is it that he now has the power to negotiate this deal where the kremlin points out that lukashenko and prigozhin have a 20-year history. lukashenko was able to play only to have influence over prigozhin. did prigozhin realize that he miscalculated? he didnt get the support that he wanted? was this always his plan and this was his best option, his get out of jail free card, apparently, because otherwise he would have been put up against ...

His credibility. he doesnt control people under him. he may have made some kind of deal to get rid of a couple of the people under him. your excellent reporter, matt bradley, points out that we do not know the details -- >> correct. >> of what putin did and he had to go to, apparently, to lukashenko, the president of belarus, who has no great credibility. so, theres a lot of questions about this deal and putin, his credibility suffers. >> right, tell me about your question. i know my question is...

Moment, this leader of belarus was able to broker at least what appears to be some kind of cease fire between putin and prigozhin? >> youre right to say reignite. i think you could put a match to any part of this at the moment and it could rip up to flames. yeah, lukashenko was barely claiming to power. clinging to power. it took support from russia, increasingly propped up and even lent on by putin, and was host to russian forces, russian aircraft involved in the invasion of ukraine. indeed, ru...

Hes losing the war that he never should have started in the first place. president xi tied himself to this loser and hes got to be asking himself why. >> general, there is, of course, warfare, as we understand it, there is also psychological warfare. and so, it strikes me that you had president zelenskyy making a plea in russian to ukrainians, so the russian people, to russian armed forces, about the moment that they find themselves in what has happened in the past 24 hours. talk to me about jus...

Note in ukraine this year. now hes had this insurrection. 25,000 heavily armed men on the streets of russia challenging russias forces. this is just unheard of in russias recent history. putin now owns that. he is weaker and all the competing powers around him who have been in odd and afraid to cost him will book at him and say, okay, let me have a bigger slice of this. let me. you, putin, stop me. where does that end? it is weaker and therefore russias ability to fight ukraine is also weakened....