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could be a major setback for russian forces as they are bracing for an expected ukrainian counteroffensive. cnns chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh is live. nick, of course, the messages from prigozhin are not new. but what is significant to you about this video that he posted overnight? >> reporter: the fact that they are saying they will leave in five days. they have never said that before. they have threatened that they might compromise their position for a ...

At this point, most of it has been done behind closed doors, and we dont have a lot of answers to those questions. >> when does that have to happen? whats the date, where the rubber meets the road. they seem to be going after people who think its a badge of honor. the steve bannons of the world who will be embroiled in court battles with, so is that the best strategy? >> at least publicly steve bannon, for every one bannon, you have ten or more who exactly theyre doing a stick strategy, come, ta...

The talk of the military solution is part of the stick strategy to score north korea and scare china. the fact that he said were not willing to sacrifice 10 million north koreans in seoul does undermine our policy but i took a certain amount of comfort -- >> it doesnt undermine the policy, it undermines the bluff. as we youall know, thats an important part of the policy. >> it an incredible book by evan thomas but thats what presidents do sometimes and they dont need little boys running around i...

Team were on before. so what we have now is a carrot and a stick strategy. the carrot is where the president was calling flynn a wonderful man, a goodm man, telling reporter mike isikof to stay strong. were now hearing there is a stick strategy in place. i think whatever trump has heard from muellers team, they decided they needed to incorporate this stick. so to me that suggests that what they heard from muellers attorneys and prosecutors really took them for a loop and really left them perhaps...