reporter: a weekend of chaos and drama in russia. mercenaries declared a mutiny and then called it off in undde 24 hours. translator: those who destroyed the lives of russian soldiers will be pubnished. justice for the troops will be restored. and then justice for all of russia. reporter: yevgeny prigozhin issued a call for rebellion. the head of wagner accusing top russian military commanders of gross mismanagement of the war in ukraine. and then prigozhin released video of an alleged russian airstrike on a wagner camp in ukraine demanding revenge. russia s defense ministry denied the attack and soon russia s top prosecutor announced criminal
we ve received very little information on where he is going sorry, i have to turn the mic on. on where he is and how quickly he will get to belarus. there is a few questions of course that we need to ask. first of all, part of the deal is that the wagner mercenaries would sign military contracts with the russian ministry of defense. essentially be absorbed into the russian army. what does that look like, could that effectively happen, are these men able to switch loyalties from prigozhin to the organized russian military. does prigozhin from belarus play any role at all, whether that is over the wagner mercenaries or over the continuing conflict in ukraine. regardless of the outcome for prigozhin who is now of course under the protection of alexander lukashenko who according to the kremlin has been given the guarantees from
welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. we begin with a dramatic turn of events in russia. moscow is calm, but traffic restrictions are still in place on a major highway connecting the capital with south western russia. refinery fire that started after a clash from wagner mercenaries and russian troops has been put out, all that after insurrection led by prigozhin came to an end as suddenly as it started. that is video wagner troops shooting in the air as they pulled out of the city on saturday. earlier the kremlin said they cut a deal with prigozhin to stop the march of his forces to moscow. and then kremlin says wagner troops will not face any legal action but they will sign new contracts with russia s defense
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