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them. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight, how tenuous is vladimir putin's hold on power. what does russian infighting mean for ukraine's counteroffensive. and what did the u.s. and western allies know in advance. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we gave putin no excuse to blame this on the west and blame this on nato. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from kyiv, ukraine. i am ali velshi. and i am here because something unprecedented unfolded over the weekend. never in 23 years under putin's russia has this happened. thousands of armed soldiers, mercenaries, taking up arms against their own country. [inaudible] >> this ...

forces. so, i think putin is afraid of them. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight, how tenuous is black vladimir putin's hold on power. what does russian infighting mean for ukraine's counteroffensive. and what did the u.s. and western allies know in advance. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we gave putin no excuse to blame this on the west and blame this on nato. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from kyiv, ukraine. i am ali velshi. and i am here because something unprecedented unfolded over the weekend. never in 23 years under putin's russia has this happened. thousands of armed soldiers, mercenaries, taking up arms ag...

Whether putin really has that power. i think from a basic strongman standpoint, he looks fundamentally weakened. this is a saving culture. you need to play a part of the strongman if that's the part you've chosen to play. and what he's experienced over the course of several days, and that armed insurrection, that basically he took over a large city, marched all over the way to the coast, to moscow, and in fact parts of the country welcomed him. meantime, knocking down seven aircraft, six helicopters, one plane. and with what cost? there was an armed insurrection, and so far nobody has been hel...