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jon: it is perhaps the most serious challenge to the vladimir putin's authority, although at this moment it appears the challenge has edged. yevgeny prigozhin has turned his forces around and is said to be heading back to belarus. let's check in with our greg palkot who's covering the story from that part of the world. greg. >> reporter: jon, it looks like we're back on the brink in russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv, but it also looks like a lot of damage was done. it was the biggest risk to russian president vladimir putin's more than two decades of r...

Military contractor business in the same way. but he's made his point and that is to show the terrible price of this war in russia, the shock of getting mercenary forces heading up the freeway towards moscow, and he has shown that putin has him really in a tight spot and is going to have to be rethinking how putin holds control of russia and, of course, what he does about ukraine. prigozhin has made his point. jon: but it would seem that prigozhin probably doesn't have a very long life expectancy at this point given that he mounted what putin referred to as a mutiny. >> yes, and he has been sc...

Some of the scenes we saw when the war first broke out, only these sights were taking place on ukrainian soil with ukrainians packing train stations hoping to leave. again, it was 16 months exactlied today since the war first broke out, and last year 1 in every 3 ukrainians was displaced because of this invasion. so a lot to watch, jon, of what will take place in the days and, if anything, just the hours ahead with so many changes taking place this just -- in just 24 hours. jon? jon: you have to think that the people at rostov-on-don are perhaps breathing easier tonight. maybe that train platf...

Jon: back now to our top story, the wagner mercenary group's rebellion against russia for whom it's been fighting in ukraine. that revolt and its march toward moscow -- pardon me -- over for now as the kremlin now says the group's leader will move to belarus to the avoid prosecution for what vladimir putin earlier today called treason. that deal reportedly broker brokered by the president of belarus. let's bring in the president of iris inif dependent research and national security and military analyst dr. rebecca grant. so much mystery over the last 36 hours about what's been going on the in ...

It -- after it began, and he doesn't normally do that. he doesn't normally go on television and talk to his people unless he knows that everything is button thed up and urn control. that seems to be a sign of his concern here, maybe his desperation. >> i think he was very concerned. i think he was very concerned. when he saw those troops, that long convoy of armored forces coming up the m-4 from the south toward moscow, he was worried. he probably left moscow, jon. he probably left moscow, which is an interesting contrast when president putin and president zelenskyy can. you remember when ther...