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
to carry on. i think prigozhin is made putin s enemy that is not going to change. their other long-term consequences surgeon to the fighting force of russians have to be concerned about this mutiny from prigozhin and the impact on russia s army the capacity that they might or might not have to carry on waging war against ukraine. click stand, you say this standoff will remain, are you saying prigozhin will not rise again so to speak? you know, i think he s going to carry on. as long as he is alive he s going to be vladimir putin s enemy. he absolutely has spoken out and rightly so about the war and what a farce it has been. publicly saying all of the things i think many russians understand and agree with themselves. russians are not allowed to speak like this publicly. they go to jail for that. that has caused harm certainly
the defiant challenge that shocked the world on the saturday. rebecca claflin is a former intelligence agency officer born enraged in the soviet union rebecca yoon of letter putin s thinking very well you are the author putin s playbook russia secret plan to defeat america. as of right now, rebecca, let s start prigozhin s move. what you make of the fact he has stopped his march and order his mercenaries to return to base and there may be some type of deal do you think there has been some agreement with putin? my intelligence analysis suggests this is a classic false flag operation. it has been orchestrated by putin and prigozhin. prigozhin is not a stupid man. he is a highly intelligent he turned his life around from a prisoner to a hot dog stand on to the owner of a multibillion
service including a mvd. so again, what has changed in the last few hours all the sudden he decided to turn his troops around and make this d deal? note this is all staged. quick to say it is stage shall be the purpose of them both putin as you say and prigozhin s agent together? sure. this is exactly the reason for them. what we are talking about right now, all of the analysts that have spoken prior to me have said those words. putin is weak. putin s hold on power is weakened. it is exactly what putin wants us to believe. remember there is eight russia/ukraine comfort going on right now. putin is hemorrhaging forces. which he is afraid is the
to the russian fighting force into vladimir putin as well. look, wars and when both sides are too exhausted to fight one side this is will to fight. these episodes cause a serious drop in morale for the russians. one last thing i would emphasize is this all began in bakhmut or the ukrainians bravely carried on fighting courageously against mostly mercenaries they killed reportedly 20000 of them. prigozhin knew he led his own troops into slaughter there. and had to blame somebody and he blamed yevgeny prigozhin and trip that s what causes a rift it has caused so much harm to the russians fighting force. that is good on ukraine because that is how you do it when you re trying to defeat the russians. arthel: meanwhile communication for those russian soldiers fighting in ukraine is critical. do you think they are aware of prigozhin s aggressive threat to