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. i m arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, everyone, i m 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 putin s decades-long grip on power. the head of the wagner group, a longtime kremlin ally, of course, but he s been increasingly recently critical of russia s military in recent weeks. he has said his forces seized key russian facilities near the ukrainian border and advanced farther north to other strategic cities, inching closer to moscow. but now those mercenaries holding fast, told to return to their field bases back in ukraine. general jack keane on fox news earlier before the order to the halt that march. and this is a surprise. there s nothing planned about this in terms of russian intelligence i m aware of and its ability
signs it seems for now perhaps cooling off. thousands of mercenaries who have fought for russia and ukraine have been marching rapidly towards moscow as they turned on vladimir putin. just in the last half hour halting their dance we are told on the capitol the head of the wagner groups and he gave the order to avoid shedding russian blood. this, after letter potent valid decisive action against what he calls treason. it is ongoing and fluid situation here at fox news we are on top of it all. hello everyone what would fox s life i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i m arthel neville. today stunning developments represent the first major challenge to putin s decades long grip on power. the head of the wagner group is a long time kremlin. he has been increasingly critical of russia s military in recent weeks. he says his forces have seized key russian military facilities knew that near the ukraine border. again they are being ordered to return to their fi
war. their leader is a long talk kremlin ally. however in recent weeks has been complaining more and more russia s military brass were ignoring his troops. his coffers mercenaries to return to their field basis and ukraine coming after the belarusian government said it president alexander had reached a group to halt the march of course will continue to bring you the latest updates on this developing situation. eric, lots of information but lots of questions remaining. eric: a very intriguing interview would just conduct with rebecca koffler who basically staged by vladimir putin to try and strengthen his rule. we will see. scratching their heads, was onas call all for now. we will continue after this. treatment option.
in the u.s. intelligence community. make me long for those days. arthel: you are a former cia station chief. mr. dan hoffman thank you very much for joining us here. we really appreciate your expertise freethinker didn t take care. eric: for more on the huge developing story the first major challenge to vladimir putin s decades long rule in moscow, alex hogan is here she s been covering the region and the russians invasion of ukraine since it began 16 months ago. so alex winchester dan talk about the intelligence community perhaps maybe at some point turning on vladimir putin. how much damage do you think has prigozhin s defiance done to putin s aura of invincibility he has been able to so far maintained until now? hi eric. it is impossible to understate just how damaging this will be former russian president vladimir putin as this image really has been struck by someone who was for so long such a close ally. we looked prigozhin s image in
to carry on. i think prigozhin is made putin s enemy that is not going to change. their other long-term consequences surgeon to the fighting force of russians have to be concerned about this mutiny from prigozhin and the impact on russia s army the capacity that they might or might not have to carry on waging war against ukraine. click stand, you say this standoff will remain, are you saying prigozhin will not rise again so to speak? you know, i think he s going to carry on. as long as he is alive he s going to be vladimir putin s enemy. he absolutely has spoken out and rightly so about the war and what a farce it has been. publicly saying all of the things i think many russians understand and agree with themselves. russians are not allowed to speak like this publicly. they go to jail for that. that has caused harm certainly