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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 was a scene inside russia today, explosions in cities, and a private army marching through the streets, vowing to take the fight all the way to the capital. those rebel forces previously allied with putin and the russian military, even leading many of the battles in ukraine, but then that ship suddenly violently ended. what exactly they were marching for remains unclear. the mercenaries, part of the wagner grou ....
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 against their own country. [inaudible] this was a scene inside russia today, explosions and cities, and a private army watching through the streets, vowing to take the fight all the way to the capital. those rebel forces previously allied with putin and the russian military, even leading many of the battles and ukraine but then that ship suddenly violently ended. what exactly they were marching for remains unc ....
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Ukraine s combat power to be able to achieve those meaningful objectives. but they are making some progress. what we see is frankly a weaker russia than we thought was their days ago. mainly because there s infighting amongst the elites. i think this is a template for others, to potentially see that putin is weaker and he might need to he s no longer in a kind of firm control of the country. we might see other factions, other security forces, starting to wonder if putin is the person to lead this country going forward. in the meantime, ukraine is going to take advantage of this. at that basic level, what we have is a weakening of the military command and control. it s unclear whether shoigu has a state power, whether gerasimov as state power, these folks are directly involved in this war effort. and the ability, to be able to control from the big picture, that theater level, what s going on in the ground has been undermined. i think that s gonna be opening a little bit of a door for ....
That theater level, what s going on in the ground has been undermined. i think that s gonna be opening a little bit of a door for ukraine to make some additional gains. there is some early reporting that they ve actually crossed the bridge that s particularly interesting and important because it s a place where the russians had very little force. and they are testing russians vulnerabilities. we are likely to see over the course of the coming weeks major threats, not these attacks, but major threats by the ukrainian military. good to see you, we are fortunate to have you here. this is part of your plans, you are going to be here this trip. thank you for being with us, lieutenant colonel, alexander vindman. all right, coming up, vladimir putin is trying to looked up after this weekend of silence. but is it enough? we re gonna speak to a man who knows both vladimir putin and yevgeny prigozhin well. next. just right. excuse me? aren t you jonathan from tv, that 995 plan? yes, fr ....