that hasn't happened in recent russian history, and now he's had to let a far lesser leader broker a deal. he has visibly weakened to the people, to the oligarchs at home and to his international partners like china, for example, who are already concerned about the way putin's handling the war. >> also wagner was his private army, essentially. a lot of the work they were doing in africa and places was in furtherance not just of russian interest but of prigozhin's financial interest -- mining, you know, illegal mining, all sorts of stealing of natural resources from a variety of countries. what happens to wag nar forces? i mean if they're signing contracts with the russian army, it seems the wagner forces at least have a decor the russian army does not, and they were sort of the shock troops on the battlefield. would they main thane that? and how would that impact the