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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20240604 22:13:00

For justice. but, by attacking the entire premise for the war in ukraine by suggesting that president putin has been lied to by his military leadership, isn t that undermining putin? yeah, i think that was a step too far even from vladimir putin who s known to drag his heels. it s no secret that prigozhin has been very outspoken about how he views the defense leadership and how this war is being managed since day one, saying wagner has done a much better job. that having been said, he has never come out and specifically condemned the rationale for this war, which is the first time that we ve seen that happen. i don t think that brings this war to an end any time soon regardless of what happens with vladimir putin. but i do think that that was notable and that is something that vladimir putin could not defend or allow to happen without a response. everyone stand by. coming up next, cnn s new reporting on the extremely detailed intelligence that the united states had gathered on th ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20240604 22:10:00

Prigozhin go live in exile in belarus? i don t, alex. and what we re talking about. we have the film of the one aircraft. open source intelligence says there were somewhere between six and eight with multiple pilots being killed. that s an air attack by mr. prigozhin s wagner group against the russian air force because they had air defense equipment in that march with them. but, in addition to that, there have been multiple occasions where the wagner group has engaged ground forces of the russian force. so, we have a combination of this private military company engaging the russians in both ukraine and in russia. and it is really just as i ve said before these folks are criminal thugs and, in some cases, interspersed with some military capabilities. but we re going to see more of this. i m not sure prigozhin is done. but it s fascinating to me how ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20240604 22:30:00

Profitable catering contracts, earning him a nickname of putin s chef. he is almost the caricatured version of how violent entrepreneurs in the 1990s when there weren t many rules about russian capitalism got ahead, and, you know, having connections in the underworld. reporter: prigozhin established wagner around 2014, and consolidated his power by having his mercenaries do putin s bidding and civil conflicts in africa and syria. in ukraine, analysts say, prigozhin s fighters proved especially valuable to putin. not because of the fabulous military skills or equipment that the wagner group-but because the wagner group was even more willing than the russian army, which is saying something, to just sacrifice their young soldiers. they just don t care. that was very useful for putin. reporter: some analysts point to the vicious battle for the ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20240604 22:24:00

But i don t see putin really exercising the degree of control that he has to exercise if he s ever going to restore his own credibility. remarkable leeway that he s giving to these wagner fighters. leon panetta, thanks very much for your expertise this evening. coming up, more on the mutiny by russian mercenaries and how it s putting the spotlight on a fierce rivalry between the wagner group s boss and vladimir putin s defense secretary. ng photos that are analyzed by ai. so researchers can help life underwater flourisish. ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20240604 22:43:00

Group forces, if that s the true number, were going to take moscow, just adds to the delusional nature of what it looks like prigozhin tried to do. and so much of his anger came from the fact that so many of them were being killed, particularly around bakhmut. prigozhin is rejecting the suggestion that this was a coup attempt. he says this was a protest march, a march for justice, he called it. now you yourself have admitted to planning coups in other countries. what do you think prigozhin s goal, his end game was? i don t think he really knows. i think much of this occurred in prigozhin s mind when he was confronted with these efforts by the russian defense ministry effectively to end wagner group forces existence separately in the ukraine theater. and i m not sure he thought it through. i would say, by the way, and i did hear it referred to earlier in the program about the sprawling resources of wagner. they are sprawling. they sprawl in the middle east ....

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