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tonight, we begin with breaking news out of russia. a major twist in that country's war against ukraine. vladimir putin forced to confront a rebellion within his own borders. just hours ago, we learned that if guinea prigozhin, the owner and the head of the wagner group and mercenary force that has been fighting alongside the russian military and ukraine, halted his advance on to the country's capital. that announcement came shortly after prigozhin claimed he and his fighters had captured the city of rostov-on-don home to the russian military headquarters for its war in ukraine. sinc...

Historic challenge to his rule, as you set. it's different than political opposition. but how does this, for example, change putin's perception on those that may challenge his rule in the weeks, months, maybe years ahead? >> well it's kept putin's regime so stable is that he's more paranoid -- or just, that he's paranoid. and he tends to overestimate the ability of his political opponents to act against him. he has put his political opponents in prison. he jailed the oligarch mikael holdup of ski, now almost 20 years ago. and now he's jailed alex in navalny and most of his top activists, the o...

Have to hope that the sanctions, the pressure of the west, you're absolutely right, there is much greater unity with countries like switzerland and swiningapo for the first tiemg ever imposed sanctions. so there is a lot of pressure on the russians and what you have to hope is that they get bogged down in the south. the united states and its allies provide weapons to ukraine that keeps bleeding the russians in the south. meanwhile the economic pressure keeps mounting and finally drives putin to the negotiating table. i'm talking about something that will take months, maybe even take years. >> ...

Saying this. it been two full months since this war began and you and i had been reporting on cnn since the people have been bombarded in ukraine. people have been isolated by the u.s. and the e.u. in ukraine, even historically neutral countries like switzerland have taken action against putin, yet, this invasion continues. does that mean that this will go on for many more months to come? >> almost certainly. i think what is going to happen here is the first phase plan a, pu putin's plan a failed, the man b is not quite that it will succeed but as i say, he already has territory south and he's...

90% of russians are against this war. so switching into english at the end of those posts with an appeal to the west he writes this. give mr. putin a clear exit to save face and stop this massacre. let's discuss brooke herrington a professor of sociology that studies oligarchs. thank you for joining. so i'm wondering what you think of this. the whole post is scathing. he is incredibly pointed. how will the army be good if everything else in the country is shit and dirty? that's an attack on the government and putin. how is he likely to attack? >> yeah, it's an incredibly bold move and it's the...