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Gershkovich's detention. this is the second time a biden administration official has visited gershkovich since his arrest. more than a week after that short-lived rebellion in russia, the head of the wagner mercenary group evgeny prigozhin is out with a new audio message thanking his supporters. he said, quote, i want you to understand that our march of justice was aimed at fighting traitors and mobilizing our society. he went onto say that he expects the group's next victories to be on the front. prigozhin did not provide any information on his whereabouts, low belarusian president lukashen...

But those questions quickly fell away as he made, unusually, a series of public appearances in the days following the mutiny. here's david waddell. wagner's march on moscow was a week ago today. it's remarkable how long ago it now seems given events could easily have spiralled into something else. here is the leader of the wagner outfit, yevgeny prigozhin. on monday he released an audio message explaining his side of the story saying they were keen to hold to account those leaders responsible for mistakes in the ukraine war. then we get a response from president putin, speaking in a special st...

>> i mean, he sort of referred to the possibility of that today in his first audio message, you know, since the rebellion was kind of called off, saying that alexander lukashenko, who's the leader of belarus, and a close putin ally, had offered the potential for wagner to keep on operating there legally because it's officially illegal in russia. so, that was something he was referring to. but russian officials i've spoken to repeatedly over the course of the past couple of days refusing to confirm or deny that prigozhin is already there. and there are some reports that he might be. but there i...

Units. that might be one of the reasons why poppy, late last night vladimir putin had that very short speech where he said, look, we would have put down that uprising any way, but we were only trying to prevent bloodshed. still seems as though while all this is over for now, there still appears to be a lot of chaos, poppy. >> interesting what putin is saying echos what prigozhin says about why he turned around to prevent bloodshed. do we know where prigozhin is? >> reporter: yeah, we don't. that's -- it's plain and simple. we know he's set to go to or set to go to belarus. we're not sure wheth...

Prigozhin is, while russian president zelenskyy is on the front lines. we have some of the strongest voices on the development tonight, matthew chance is in moscow, erin burnett is in ukraine, carly atwood over at the state department and freed zakaria is here as well. but first, the news. both putin and prigozhin speaking out publicly today, breaking their silence after this weekend insurrection that challenge the russian leader's grip on power. putin briefly addressing the russian people, angrily denouncing this challenge to his government without using prigozhin's name specifically, he accu...