that saw the private military wagner group seize cities and come within 120 miles of reaching moscow. hello, welcome. great to have you here, trace. trace: this is america reports. whereabouts of yevgeny are not known, but he claims he was not trying to overthrow the government but rather to protest the kremlin s mishandling of the war in ukraine. sandra: dan hoffman moments away where putin will go from here. gillian turner at the state department and how the biden administration administration is responding to the turmoil in russia. benjamin hall is live in london. what s been putin s reaction so far today? good to see you this afternoon. today we finally heard from both putin and putin was giving a normal talk to a youth group, and saturday he was talking about mutiny and he was threatening those who were going to attack him. that being said, what we have seen over the last few days is the worst cracks to his regime over the last 23 years. we saw wagner moving to w
fighting the war. we could end this diplomatically but we are still steadfastly supporting ukraine to the end. was there no consideration to how differently this coup could have gone, how out of hand it could have gone and then does that affect your consideration into like is it worth it, is it worth this nuclear risk, is it worth a mercenary getting access to russia s nuclear arsenal, are the crimea and donbas, who rules those regions. wow, that that was a lot, wow. i will say a few things. first of all, i do not agree with your characterization of how we interpreted the events here. number two, i will say there are no heroes on either side of this conflict between the russian regime and yevgeny prigozhin
conversations that steadfast support will remain for ukraine no matter what happens in russia, and with respect to the activities over the weekend, obviously they were a significant step. it is certainly a new thing to see president putin s leadership directly challenged. a new thing to see yevgeny prigozhin calling out the war is conducted basically on a lie, something we have said previously but not coming from russian officials previously. those are significant steps. you think prigozhin is a russian official? he was a leader that remains on the battlefield, or was. remains to be seen the final, or the current or final disposition
brings with it when it enters any country. just a couple of questions to follow up on what he just said. to backtrack a little bit. the state department definition on what happened or nearly happened or failed to happen over the weekend? what do you mean? just said the events that happened. do you have any definition, how do you call it? i think the events that happened were yevgeny progression prigozhin took a group of forces and marched on rostov and marked toward moscow and stopped. i won t speak to what his intentions were. i ll say it is vladimir putin that raised the spector of 1917, not anyone from the united states government. timeline, precise and when did exactly the ambassador reach out to russian and what did she convoy. everything we have heard from lavrov, was it accurate?
of wagner and yevgeny prigozhin. do you have any idea where he is right now? i don t have any assessment about his location. and last thing is do you think that it s going to have any kind of impact on the russian operations in ukraine or also on wagner activities outside of ukraine, like in syria and africa? i think it s too soon to tell with respect to both of those questions. certainly the events we saw over the weekend where you see wagner forces to some extent withdrawing from ukraine and instead marching on and occupying a russian city are a significant step. what happens to the wagner forces in the wake of the announcement on saturday and a couple days, we don t know what will happen to wagner in