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could be a major setback for russian forces as they are bracing for an expected ukrainian counteroffensive. cnn's chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh is live. nick, of course, the messages from prigozhin are not new. but what is significant to you about this video that he posted overnight? >> reporter: the fact that they are saying they will leave in five days. they have never said that before. they have threatened that they might compromise their position for a week now, we have been seeing these messages from yevgeny prigozhin after people thought his long-t...

At this point, most of it has been done behind closed doors, and we don't have a lot of answers to those questions. >> when does that have to happen? what's the date, where the rubber meets the road. they seem to be going after people who think it's a badge of honor. the steve bannons of the world who will be embroiled in court battles with, so is that the best strategy? >> at least publicly steve bannon, for every one bannon, you have ten or more who exactly they're doing a stick strategy, come, talk to us, you won't have to be in front of the raising your right hand. when will they start doi...

The talk of the military solution is part of the stick strategy to score north korea and scare china. the fact that he said we're not willing to sacrifice 10 million north koreans in seoul does undermine our policy but i took a certain amount of comfort -- >> it doesn't undermine the policy, it undermines the bluff. as we youall know, that's an important part of the policy. >> it an incredible book by evan thomas but that's what presidents do sometimes and they don't need little boys running around in the white house who think they're kings undercutting that strategy. that's part of what a com...

Team were on before. so what we have now is a carrot and a stick strategy. the carrot is where the president was calling flynn a wonderful man, a goodm man, telling reporter mike isikof to stay strong. we're now hearing there is a stick strategy in place. i think whatever trump has heard from mueller's team, they decided they needed to incorporate this stick. so to me that suggests that what they heard from mueller's attorneys and prosecutors really took them for a loop and really left them perhaps a bit stunned. >> and again, we had yesterday, i think it was, the brother of michael flynn was ...