there s not a lot of information sources beyond the state media, even for the russian government to get a sense of what s going on. nonetheless, we are seeing things published by the wagner group themselves on their various channels. again, it shows us this rolling march to moscow. we are seeing videos that at least some of them were left behind, just now we re working on verifying. it but we re seeing claims the chechen leader, in, chechnya who is a classic strongman who underpin this regime. , pledging to send some of his best fighters to rostov to confront prigozhin and the wagner troops there. there s a lot going on. we re still trying to sort through it. and this is just going to play out over the course of the. day of course, as you, mentioned we re seeing evidence that the russian authorities are taking this march on moscow very seriously. they are starting to secure the capital. more specifically, secure the routes into the capital. they want to stop this from
plane, why it was in the, air or exactly where it s heading. we now clearly don t know where it is. all, right take a look at this. map rostov-on-don is at the bottom, 60 miles from the ukrainian border. this is the last reported wagner group advances as they head towards moscow. they are more than halfway towards moscow. they may have advanced more than 200 miles since the start of the day. joining me now is the former congresswoman, james harmon of california. she s the president of the woodrow wilson center. and the chair of the commission for the group, national defense strategy. jane, thank you for being here. please put on your hat as a student of history and we un-american looking at this, what are you alarmed about and what do you make of what s happening in this with what russia is calling an attempted coup? ali, you ve had some amazing guests including khrushchev s
times. military equipment inside the city of moscow in per passion for the defensive. it this all comes after prigozhin yesterday heavily escalated his public feud with these two men, russia s defense ministry and defense minister, sergei shoigu, the man on the, left and the head of russia s armed forces, the chief of staff, valery gerasimov. both who prigozhin hates and blames for russia s failure in ukraine. and also, for the wagner group s heavy losses. in a series of messages posted on telegram, prigozhin accused the kremlin of invading ukraine under false pretenses. calling it a quote, rocket. it wasn t done to, quote, demilitarize or the nazify ukraine, but instead to enrich shoigu, the defense minister, and other members of the ruling elite. prigozhin vowed that his troops would advance on moscow to punish russia s, quote, evil military leadership. prigozhin also claimed that one
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area for vladimir putin throughout his invasion of ukraine. rostov-on-don is located 60 miles from the ukrainian border. one of the main staging areas for russia s invasion. in fact, russia southern military district command from which a lot of the invasion has taken place, is based there. it also houses the command center for the russian joint group s forces. prigozhin has vowed to lead his troops to moscow. those are his words. right now, reports indicate the wagner force is moving north towards the russian capital. joining me now is the retired navy admiral, the former supreme allied commander of nato, he s an msnbc chief international analyst. admiral, it is an important moment. this may turn out to be nothing or nothing important. or this may be a coup underway in russia. this is an armed state. it is a nuclear arms state. at war with a u.s. ally.