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a good sunday evening to you. im jim sciutto. and welcome back to cnn special live coverage of the russian rebellion that erupted without warning and ended quickly this weekend not long after it began. yet -- and we should be clear -- the world is only beginning to assess the fallout. there are growing questions tonight about vladimir putins leadership going forward and whether his iron grip on russia is weakening. the crash site of a russian military plane reportedly brought down by t...

Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com outfront next, live from israel. Breaking news, a major show of force from israel tonight signaling a Ground Invasion could come any time. 300,000 troops are now standing by. I will also show you what our own crew encountered in the city of ashkelon live on the air. Plus, an american killed by hamas. Ill speak to the father of a 25yearold woman from california killed at the Music Festival, along with her boyfriend, losing her life while trying to escape the brut...

Artillery attacks daily along these lines. we can see here, that is outgoing artillery. along the front, it is said there is some hundred thousand russian troops gathering, newly formed battle troops along the tree line. around here, there has been incoming fire here, lots of damage. there is plenty of trench positions to take cover in. it is easy to forget, with so much focus on the counteroffensive in the south of ukraine, that there are vicious battles going on here in the east and the north ...

There was less known about this happening. the intelligence community was aware of troops gathering, equipment being built up in a way that the intelligence community did think that a move like this by prigozhin was imminent. but that doesnt make it any less stunning. >> they saw prigozhin preparing for weeks, it seemed, at building weapons, making contact, it seems he hoped with regular russian army units to try to bring them together. so, now the story is -- by the way, we should take the stor...

Is ongoing in ukraine and has already lost 13,500 people is forgotten, at least for the moment. this has gone on since 2014? exactly. this has gone on since 2014? exactl . ,, ., this has gone on since 2014? exactl. ,, ., , this has gone on since 2014? exactl . ,, ., , ., exactly. do you not believe that russia has _ exactly. do you not believe that russia has the _ exactly. do you not believe that russia has the intention - exactly. do you not believe that russia has the intention to - exactly. ...

Going on since 2014? exactly. do you not believe therefore that russia has the intention to escalate and have a wider offensive? i do believe, they want to force us more into an even softer position in negotiations that we already have and this is how they achieve it. in terms of your position with nato membership, i think we can look at a map that will show... just to look at what is going on around your country, to the north, theres belarus, russian troops are going there, you have troops gath...

I do believe, they want to force us more into an even softer position in negotiations that we already have and this is how they achieve it. in terms of your position with nato membership, i think we can look at a map that will show... just to look at what is going on around your country, to the north, theres belarus, russian troops are going there, you have troops gathering... there we go, we have a different map, belarus is named on this map. crimea in the south, but all of those countries to t...