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Reasons. i will say this about president putin. clearly he's been in that leadership role in various ways for more than 20 years. he can be ruthless. he also can be very flexible. remember about prigozhin, what you're seeing there is a man who has been close to president putin over a long period of time. in a sense what you're looking at is a confrontation, brothers fight brothers, if you like, a confrontation between russian elites, and that may go some way to explaining. another thing i will say is that we don't know what happens next. this is not the end of this story. we do not know what t...

Is unclear what exactly that danger was, and the intelligence new that the specific incident could play out, if this was the risk posed to the wagner group, it has its fingers in many regions and conflicts around the world, they have been a known quantity for a while to us officials. as officials inform officials and diplomats all over the world reacted to this today, i heard a lot of expletives that got taken off the record as everybody was trying to figure out what was going on, as events try to calm down we will see more of a regroup and some statements but for the moment the statements we ...

Screen is more important right this minute, before another news cycle, let's see what happens. but i think a civil war inside russia, or an attempted coup, or call it anything, is a one, a huge distraction from its prosecution of the so-called special operation in ukraine. an embarrassment for vladimir putin. but two, possibly regime threatening for putin from inside. i don't think anyone on the outside, i've said messaged discipline, should be talking about that in terms of what they want. i think this is russia on russia, and that's what we should be watching very closely. >> former californ...

Countries around the world were on Saturday closely watching events unfolding in Russia, where a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group posed the most serious challenge yet to President Vladimir Putin's long rule.

US President Joe Biden was briefed on the situation in Russia and Washington and "will be consulting with allies and partners on these developments", National Security Council spokesman Adam Hodge said.