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this is our special coverage out of russia. the head of wagner group, the leader released a statement. >> therefore, realizing all the responsibilities for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides we turn our columns and move in the opposite field of the camps. >> officials claim their president had reached a deal with the wagner boss to halt his troops. earlier, he said his private army seizeded control of russian military facilities in it two critical cities. that is half way on the road to moscow. president putin called the actions a betrayal and stab notice ...

Prigozhin had them in his sights. we're looking at a longer-term issue for vladimir putin's authority and ultimately question as to whether he ends this episode now having to accept that prigozhin calls so many shots in rush ysia. startling times. that's going to be impacted significantly, too. >> well, exactly. and those groups have had, if any russian successes, they come at those, you know, the hands of the wagner group. nick, thank you very much. natasha, the u.s. and nato allies are really, really, you know, hoping that there would be some internal challenge to putin. what do we know abou...

You're an ambassador. you're a diplomat. how do you think this is going to play out? >> how do you see the next steps in view of what you just been talking about the impact of what just happened over the last 24 hours? >> well, at one possibility is that the pause we're seeing as prigozhin stopped his advance is that they'll be just kind of a standoff. but we very much still see two contending parties. the second alternative is, again, you know, prigozhin -- he doesn't just turn -- he doesn't stop his movement. he goes back to the south. maybe back into ukraine and maybe not. he demonstrateded...

We haven't had any official indication towards that at all. where do prigozhin's troops go now? they swept almost unopposed, they said without firing a shot over the last night of them packing up and leaving. but to an applause, frankly, from some of the locals. you can make what you want of that. show of limited public support. but we had an extraordinary 24 hours for vladimir putin's grip on russia. things you would never possibly have conceived could happen before this war began. shaking the notion that he is the one calling the shots here. we'll have to see what he now does, does he pardon...

Prigozhin, i'm not certain. maybe what he told prigozhin was that, you know, okay. you demonstrated you're not under the thumb of the ministry of defense which is what the russian regulation said. wagner soldiers had to sign up for the ministry of defense. you can maintain independent position and going back to doing what you were doing. he felt that maybe that was enough. it may well have been that deadline for the soldiers to sign up under the ministry of defense which was july 1 which is what prompted him to move. >> yeah. he does seem to indicate, frankly, in his statement in the latest au...