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wagner group sees that early on as a key objective, they pretty much walked in. they have held it since. they left a reasonable force, we think, in that area. although, at the moment, there is some local opposition from the chechens who are approaching rostov. they are very loyal to the regime. that is sort of developing in the city at the moment. so they have seized the city, they didn't have huge strength there, but they do have their headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters and the south controls on the communication. so it's really st...

sk crisis in russia. i'm michael smerconish. putin warns those involved in the mercenary group will be punished. p prigozhin says they killed a, quote, huge amount of his men. a long-time ally of the kremlin, he claimed troops had taken control of facilities in the russian cities of voronezh and rostov-on-don without firing a shot. one general called it a coup d'etat, but prigozhin deniesoco. there was an announced a criminal investigation of prigozhin and they were to stop and detain their leader. in an address to the nation, putin said this. >> translator: i repeat, any internal ...

>> so rostov was the operational objective. to me, it's quite clear why. when i was in government, when i was in moscow, i spent enormous amounts of time driving up and down the road from moscow to rostov. this was -- you know, i had a job to observe and report for the u.s. government at the beginning of this war, in 2014. i know this terrain quite well. rostov is the seat of russian military power. it is the headquarters of the southern military district. it is the joint operational command for the war in ukraine. to me, if he wanted to undermine shoygu and plant his flag, the first objective...