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Military responds. i am certain that our government and nato allies and of course ukraine are looking to see morale in the russian troops in ukraine. to what extent were they happy about the way in which moscow handled the wagner mutiny? to what extent are they questioning they're putting their lives on the line every day? we don't know that yet. but that's something to watch for in the days and weeks ahead. >> cnn, tim, has learned on president biden's call on saturday with other western leaders, the message was to keep the temperature low as all this was playing out in russia. how do you ass...

Wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin. his whereabouts aren't known after the kremlin said he actually struck a deal to stand down. the agreement allows prigozhin to be exiled to belarus and have all criminal charges against him dropped. ivan watson explains how his insurrection started and what it says about putin's grip on power. >> reporter: a weekend of chaos and drama in russia. mercenaries declared a mutiny and then called it off in under 24 hours. yevgeny prigozhin issued a call for rebellion, the head of the wagner mercenary group accusing top managers as gross mismanagement of the war in uk...

Minister is, we haven't really heard from the head of the armed forces, two figures who prigozhin demanded to meet in a very aggressive way and has been very, very bitterly critical of them from the front lines in bakhmut in so many of those video statements that he made. so at the moment i think the kremlin is rattled, is trying to figure out what to do next and breathing an enormous sigh of relief that this has not metastasized, at least not yet, world. >> sam kiley, thank you very much. we're also learning more about what u.s. intelligence officials knew leading up to this weekend's dramati...

Let this all play out, that the u.s. had no intention of getting directly involved. is that caution warranted? >> yeah. the message from the administration, wolf, and from other nato countries was really this is an internal russian issue, this is a domestic dispute, we don't want any part of this. every u.s. official i spoke with, every diplomat i spoke with made the point that we are not at all involved. everyone saw this immediately for what it was, which is the biggest challenge of putin's leadership since he came into office and none of these countries wanted to give putin any kind of way ...

Has proper communication and in a dramatic announcement yesterday, the combative head of the organization said his troops would turn around after coming just 125 miles from moscow. >> translator: therefore realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and lead in the opposite directions to the field camps, according to the plan. >> it was the most serious challenge to russian president vladimir putin's rule since he came into power 23 years ago. wagner's soldiers were cheered by supporters as they prepared to lea...