Wagger Group News Today

welcome back. you are live in the cnn newsroom. im jim acosta in washington. and russia, its the day after. the day after the head of the wagner mercenary group called off his armed rebellion and advance on moscow the day of the military leadership in the handles of the war in ukraine, the day of wagner forces were almost uncharged as the columns marched towards moscow. its the day after. locals were heard cheering for the mercenaries, and not for putin. they said they had captured mil...

Seeing the beginning of the end and maybe the beginning of the end -- it takes along time before he actually gets to the end. but if it is the beginning of the end, if putins hold on power, perhaps there are people who are much more national who say this is maybe not such a great ideas to be snatching basketball players and journalists and holding them, and detaining them for leverage. >> exactly. exactly. jim, thats what im hoping. that, you know, this might -- i just like to think very positiv...

Treated on the battlefields of ukraine. we caught wagner and they have a higher level of experience. the russian armys level of experience is far lower than that, and prigozhin thought his forces were mistreated. for him to carry out 19-17 2.05 and march it out, its a little confusing. no matter how favorable a deal, he is likely a dead man walking. vladimir cannot afford to keep him alive. the why is going to be one of the great intelligence mysteries here. >> absolutely. and you mentioned you ...

Now, a year ago, we were saying the poor ukrainians, how long do they hold out against the russians? who knows, not long. the business of predicting what putin and the rugtsssians are gg to do is fraught with danger and the expectations, the russian society have after their leader and the leader is supposed to provide them first and foremost with stability and safety, and even though this was a russian marching on, this is prigozhin, and his group marching on moscow, that is instability, and not...

And what happens now? ? is the wagner group not finished? i guess nobody nopes or do we know? >> its absolutely fascinating. what -- apparently prigozhin was to be disbanned in the earnl of the russian army. that is why he did it, on the march on to moscow. supportedly to change the government, get rid of vladimir putin, become the strong man himself. and then he brings it back and now the actual same deal is doing. wagner and some are going to fly out and others will get contracted in place und...

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By surprise, how quickly thises s escalated. but the u.s. officials should been monitoring it for a long time, going back adds early as january, they warned about this potential power struggle, even as recently as last week, they were briefing members of congress about preparations that they saw in their intelligence that the head of the wagner group was preparing to take the steps that he e havenventually take sbhsm we saw a number of officials, including the joint chiefs chairman mark philly, ...

Without his wagner group. theyre going to disband and blend in the m.o.d., the wagner group, theyre going to give away his riches. so i think is a lot more to be looked at. this, i think, is a very temporal deal, if you will. >> steve, prigozhin claims the forces took the russian military headquarters without firing a shot. and we saw the video, the people cheering in the streets for the wagner fighters. what does this say about putins grip on power? im sure you have been hearing all the convers...