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Their advance on moscow. wagner forces claimed to capture key military cities about halfway to moscow, the wagner chief who has been an increasingly strident critics of leadership. he will not be prosecuted and live in belarus. he brokered a deal. now kilie, although these events caught most of the world off guard including vladimir putin, we should note, western allies were quick to reaffirm their support for ukraine. this does leave a precarious diplomatic situation with a major world power. how are the allies dealing with russia right now? how are they proceeding with this situation? >> rep...

If we look at the wagner company, that is an organization that we've seen in the battlefield, really, across the world over the past couple of years. for instance, i was in syria in 2016 and 2017. we already saw wagner operatives on the ground there. at that point, doing mostly base protection. from there, it really professionalized in a big way. they started getting involved in the oil trade. they started going into diamonds and gold in african countries, training forces there. it wasn't until the war in ukraine that the wagner private military company turned from being essentially a military...

As you mentioned, u.s. officials, you know, they were caught off guard by the speed with which prigozhin moved against the russian military hear. but that being said, u.s. officials have long been monitoring these tensions taken with the wagner group and the russian ministry of defense. and they were monitoring in recent days that prigozhin was perhaps preparing to make some kind of a have ma. again, caught off guard with the so many unanswered questions that still remain. it is clear the u.s. is still trying to gather information about what exactly happened to end this armed stand-off and wha...

Nuclear capabilities so u.s. officials are always concerned about a situation on the battlefield that could escalate and lead president putin to feel like he needs to use that capability because it is something he has threatened before. this is a situation that has happened internally with this power struggle between prigozhin, the wagner forces, and the russian ministry of defense. you do have to consider that reality here. and when it comes to what u.s. officials are doing, they're being incredibly cautious here. on the record, they're not saying much. we know behind the scenes that they are...

Min ministry, shoigu, look, he's on the battlefield and then accusing shoigu the defense minister of essentially starving wagner of the weapons they needed to win in places like bakhmut. so it is a if you had t, a feud that has been going on for a long time. for all the backing, for being so close to vladimir putin, it looks like he went one step too far this time, jil. >> it certainly looks that way. we don't know what happens next for prigozhin. he's said to be on his way to belarus but the kremlin just admitted not too long ago, they don't exactly know his whereabouts. so a shadowy mystery ...