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jon: it is perhaps the most serious challenge to the vladimir putins authority, although at this moment it appears the challenge has edged. yevgeny prigozhin has turned his forces around and is said to be heading back to belarus. lets check in with our greg palkot whos covering the story from that part of the world. greg. >> reporter: jon, it looks like were back on the brink in russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv, but it also looks like a lot of damage wa...

this after president putin promised decisive action against what he calls treason. hello, everyone, and welcome to the a special hour of "fox news live." im arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, everyone, im eric shawn. fast-breaking developments that have a lot of people wondering what is really going on? some say it was a challenge to vladimir putins decades-long grip on power. the head of the wagner group, a longtime kremlin ally, of course, but hes been increasingly recently criti...

paula reid in for jim acosta. youre in the "cnn newsroom" we begin this hour with a potential new milestone in russias war in ukraine. ukraine has announced that it has used a u.s. made patriot air defense system like this to bring down a russian hypersonic missile. if true, it would be the first time ukraine was able to intercept a missile that travels at ten times the speed of sound. cnns sam kiley joins us from kyiv with the latest. sam, how significant is this? >> reporter: i think...

Chief had agreed to the halt the movement of his forces and deescalate tensions in exchange for guaranteed security. and the wagner boss with gave the orders for his troops to return to field camps in ukraine to avoid, yes, the risk of blood being spilled. and we had seen in the last half hour or so signs that just being the forces headed to moscow, also those in rostov, probably a complete withdrawal from russia of the wagner forces in this latest entry. there are also reports, eric, that putin...

Jon: back now to our top story, the wagner mercenary groups rebellion against russia for whom its been fighting in ukraine. that revolt and its march toward moscow -- pardon me -- over for now as the kremlin now says the groups leader will move to belarus to the avoid prosecution for what vladimir putin earlier today called treason. that deal reportedly broker brokered by the president of belarus. lets bring in the president of iris inif dependent research and national security and military anal...

Unfolding especially in terms of what this means for their forces on the front line and whether or not there will be the possibility of an advantage or furthering their counteroffensive. now remember just how crucial the wagner mercenaries have been for russias military. they have been on the front lines seizing many of these small contested towns many some of these larger, bloodier ballots throughout the start of the war -- battles throughout the start of the war. the potential of those troops ...

Prigozhin was making demands, that he wanted sergei show guy out as the leader of the army, and he wanted the defense minister sacked. but that, apparently, has not happened. >> apparently not. prigozhin for a long time has been criticizing harshly shoigu, the defense minister, and gerasimov, the chairman of the joint chiefs. and so for me ghosn to get nothing out of -- prigozhin to get nothing out of this negotiation with, again, lukashenko who doesnt have much authority anyway, this deal doesn...

Shutter in place -- people to shutter in place, even the mayor of moscow telling people to go home and the governor of the region even has canceled all public gatherings in this part of russia for the next week. so having this u-turn take place of all of these mercenaries starting to head back to their bases, its definitely a positive sign for people who live there, many of them questioning if this would turn into a coup, if this would turn into a civil war. were definitely seeing the tensions s...

Effective killing ground. theyve been using it when they are feeling confident theyll boast about that being an area of no strategic advantage where theyre happy to kill russians, and they want to kill as many as they can and absorb as much of that energy as they can before they prosecute this offensive for some time, possibly in the south of the country. the developments have been very dramatic with the leader of thing wagner group offering among the most men in the battle for bakhmut, prigozhi...

Soap opera. he does love the attention. but if there is a switch from wagner to chechen fighters, that would provide an opportunity inevitably for the ukrainians to try to regain the initiative in the battle for bakhmut ahead of this anticipated offensive, paula. >> sam kiley, thank you. and in northern california, a former student at uc davis has pleaded not guilty in three knife attacks near campus. two people died in the stabbings, which took place over the span of five days. cnns camilla b...