wagner s camps in ukraine. that is when prigozhin organized an armed rebellion, escalating his feud with russian military leaders. putin responded this morning, prigozhin of treason and vowing to crush the growing armed rebellion. meanwhile, ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, calling the infighting, quote, complete chaos. encouraging more support for ukraine. so, what have the past 24 hours revealed in this position? well, max moot of the washington post writes, quote, war is inherently unpredictable and risky business. it s consequences can never before seen with clarity. seldom manage with success. a dictators illusion of control can all too often collapse in the culture of combat. especially if the war turns into a prolonged, bloody conflict of attrition, as has occurred in ukraine. beginning this hour from kyiv, nbc news foreign correspondent, ross sanchez, nbc news white house reporter, monica alba, and on capitol hill, nbc news
alive, but the amount of damage he has done to putin s reputation has a strong man, you can t on ring the bell, right? once you ve done it. so, i think prigozhin is in a very difficult position, in terms of staying alive for the next few days. but for his forces the wagner forces, they are an intensely trained and highly effective paramilitary group, and they are not just operating in ukraine. they have thousands of troops spread throughout africa and the middle east, so the question becomes, who will control those forces? we ve heard rumors about their disillusion including prigozhin solution to the ministry of defense wanting to disintegrate wagner. but it seems like with this particular allowing of certain wagner forces who weren t involved today, they can sign contracts with the ministry of defense. so, this is an olive branch to those people who don t want to end up in exile in belarus. so, i think the next few days are going to be important. will the ministry of defense allow the
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taking it like in his hands when he was a belarusian. i don t see what is in it for him. he struck some kind of a deal to call off his troops that had momentum. they were heading for moscow, apparently had moscow in a panic. again, matt bradley makes the good point that we do not know where president putin is. he s probably not in moscow. we remember where president zelenskyy was when the russians came forward on his border, on the outskirts of kyiv. president putin was not in moscow, in all likelihood. so, there is that question, but what happens to prigozhin when he goes to belarus? right. there have been people who have not fared well when they have crossed president putin. right, general zwack, the other big question militarily, at least to me is, if the wagner group was among the stronger of the russian assets, what, then, does the dissolution of the wagner group mean militarily for russia and