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Very thinly still stick together and almost falling apart. but i would also imagine it might strengthen putins hand a little bit because exactly that. i mean, he was able to somehow do something like that, turning prigozhin around. and that probably would be good fluff for him for now to keep his power which i think is basically what hes doing, with all his words and actions. >> go back in history and see if its relevant to whats happening in the kremlin now. you said that, you know, when a lead...

To send a relatively small column of wagner troops in to moscow where theyre bound to get lost amongst police forces trying to control such a vast area. but it is fair to look at the last 24 hours as a time which has significantly weakened vladimir putin. and i dont think weve fully known the entirety of how thats played out. startling to see this, and a remarkable moment of prigozhin suddenly it seems deciding to deescalate. but he is vague about where his columns will be, in field camps, he sa...

Of russia as a riddle wrapped up in a -- in an enigma and the rest. in other words, you just dont know until you know. so it looks like prigozhin was trying to send a message to the ministry of defense and to the head of the russian armed forces. those people have been his targets since the beginning of this war, and hes complained bitterly that they have completely messed up and literally botched the invasion and the war in ukraine, and that he has presented himself and his independent paramili...

So my theory is is that what hes doing is perhaps slowing down for now having made a very important point to putin, and i think having weakened putin significantly. the lukashenko part of this, lukashenkos a puppet, these are table scraps for him. stuff that makes him look like the big man he wants to be and every once in a while putin will send something. i dont think its important, and i dont believe he was instrumental in reach something agreement with prigozhin on this. >> given that people ...

Anymore really by anybody in the kremlin. >> well, exactly. and i guess obviously the west and ukraine looking aing carefu and hoped there would be a proper challenge to putin to stop this war. theres also the battlefield to talk about. we just spoke to a putin ally from his own party who said that putin could not afford to have a multi-pronged, multifronted war against him, whether within with the paramilitary group, whether its with ukrainians, whoever else its with. so putin has dodged a bit ...

He wields. you know, another reason this isnt simply going to be over is because, of course, prigozhin has embarrassed putin significantly. and putin will not forget that. but also, of course, we have to remember when the fsb got involved publicly on this, in other words the fsb was -- i think the kremlin announced formally that the fsb is investigating this as criminal activity, thats putin. putin is closest to the fsb. the fsb is the closest thing we have to the kgb successor organization wher...

Lukashenko said there are two sides on the table, and they should be satisfied with the agreement. im not entirely sure. i was listening to your previous guest, and im not entirely sure what prigozhin, how prigozhin can escape this because there is a criminal investigation. putin is a man who does not put up with betrayal. so that probably is something that they would have or will play out later on. i just spoke to a variety of people around me in the building, and there is a sigh of relief and ...

Battlefield with ukraine and inside of russia. either way, its bad, bad, and bad for putin. there is very little upside if any that i can see from this whole event. hes going to emerge from this significantly weakened which i think is going to strengthen those senior advisers around him and make him think twice about what the future is at least with putin in charge. >> steve hall, thank you. and i want to now turn to historian nina krusheva in moscow. we talked to her when this was in a differen...