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The Ukraine war "is going to be long, it’s going to be hard, it’s going to be bloody,” Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley predicted.

-- >> the fight in ukraine -- what is your expectation there, and what will you be watching? >> i will be watching a number of things. first of, all what happened to the wagner fighters, this is 25,000 people, heavily armed, some of them quite well trained, others just convex. russia clearly appears that they want to absorb that into their normal command structure. not clear to me that everybody has been a wagner fighter will take that deal, does that diminish russia's capacity? how does ukraine try to take advantage of this pretty massive political distraction for putin? they are in the midst...

And the way that putin has run his regime for a long time, he does have these competing corrupt fiefdoms incredibly corrupt -- good deal of money on the side. he's church and roll on kadyrov. is also played a role in the fight in ukraine, he's dependent on these, people also at odds with each, other nickel. this is not a unified command structure. and that is been boiling underneath the service in unexplored interview. so good to putin's next prestige actually running the unified command over the last 44 hours and it's also the potential loss of wagner and his most potent fighting forces on th...

Vehemently refutes. he was doing some reporting on the wagner group. what would move putin to do a deal, given prigozhin amnesty after this international humiliation of vladimir putin today? >> well, i think it's a sign of weakness, really nicolle. on the one hand, if prigozhin really was making a move for power in moscow, he may need to see if he could've peeled off some of the other russian command structure. some other russian units or regional figures. that didn't really happen. we saw circling of the wagons, and some of russia's political leadership around putin. but at the same time, you...

Fighting power, it's going to be significant blow to them, and precisely the time that ukraine has launched this counteroffensive. . with amped up nato weapons. since the invasion of ukraine, the first time around 2014, the wagner group has been increasingly essential to putin's policies. they were at the tip of the spear of his activities in syria. they've been at the tip of a spear in some of his activities again influence in africa. and when the war started, we saw prigozhin come back to russia and ukraine, and really take command as a fiefdom within the russian command structure. it was wa...