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stopped his advance on moscow and apparently pulled at least some fighters out of rostov-on-don. they had made to it within 120 miles of the capital when they suddenly decided to turn around. the kremlin saying they have putin's word he can go safely to belarus free from prosecution. you can see him being cheered by the folks. they even went to shake his hand. prigozhin saying he made the deal because he didn't want to shed russian blood. >> translator: therefore, russian blood would be shed from one of the sites we turn our column around and turn in the opposite direction according ...

That didn't happen and therefore, that was one of the reasons he realized? or he had a sense that he had overreached? there are so many things we don't know. it is hard to imagine him thinking that he could go to moscow with the troops he had. what would have been his plan to try to surround the ministry of defense and arrest or kill the defense minister? it seems hard to imagine. >> i mean, to be clear, we are guessing here. we don't have the inside information. i certainly don't have access to intelligence. it seems that our intelligence community was aware that prigozhin was planning someth...

Critiques were probably valid. we're mind-reading here but he couldn't have completely unhappy to see this thorn in their side. then it got to the point where it got too close. yesterday, we were reading on telegram as prigozhin announces that if he doesn't get a meeting with gerasimov and shoigu, he's marching to moscow. and then started doing exactly that. it was only then that putin comes out and gives a speech and calls him a traitor. >> yeah. it's just been an extraordinary 24 hours. this is still so much to learn about what we have just witnessed and obviously, so much to look at what wi...

Them going at each other so they were not turning, you know, they were divided and they did not unite and turn against vladimir putin. a way to keep the people around him warring with each other as opposed to threatening the leader. >> i think that was a piece of it. i think there was another part of it as well. which is, putin can't be very happen with the defense minister, shoigu, or with gerasimov because they were the ones who put together the plan to take oh kyiv and had to abandon that. they were the ones who went down to plan b, go back to the south and east, and that's where the counte...

Was keeping everyone around him guessing and at each other's throats and not sure who to trust. it seems like vladimir putin has done that. that is one of his strategies as well. allowing prigozhin to be, it was like rats in a maze. gnawing away at the defense minister, having chem at each other's throats, and keeping them divided so they're not trying to gnaw off vladimir putin's limbs. >> right. and he did that, let's not forget, with the chechen leader who also went to ukraine with his fighters and ended up disgruntled but left the battlefield and went quiet, at left a when it come to criti...