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welcome back. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. and russia, it s the day after. the day after the head of the wagner mercenary group called off his armed rebellion and advance on moscow the day of the military leadership in the handles of the war in ukraine, the day of wagner forces were almost uncharged as the columns marched towards moscow. it s the day after. locals were heard cheering for the mercenaries, and not for putin. they said they had captured military facilities in two russian cities. the wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin said he wanted to spear sharing russian blood. translator: realizing all the responsibility that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides. we turn our columns around and leave in the of sirte direction to the field camps, according to the plan. did you ever think you would see this? here is prigozhin receiving a h hero s farewell as he leaves. the kremlin says he will not be prosecuted and he will be ....
Seeing the beginning of the end and maybe the beginning of the end it takes along time before he actually gets to the end. but if it is the beginning of the end, if putin s hold on power, perhaps there are people who are much more national who say this is maybe not such a great ideas to be snatching basketball players and journalists and holding them, and detaining them for leverage. exactly. exactly. jim, that s what i m hoping. that, you know, this might i just like to think very positively about it. but i think the big thing is, we have to stay focused on our priority as a count, and yeah, i m hopeful of the group people ....
Treated on the battlefields of ukraine. we caught wagner and they have a higher level of experience. the russian army s level of experience is far lower than that, and prigozhin thought his forces were mistreated. for him to carry out 19-17 2.05 and march it out, it s a little confusing. no matter how favorable a deal, he is likely a dead man walking. vladimir cannot afford to keep him alive. the why is going to be one of the great intelligence mysteries here. absolutely. and you mentioned you were fighting with the international leon in ukraine and you had encounters with the wagner group. they had been fighting some of the more effective battles the, ....
Now, a year ago, we were saying the poor ukrainians, how long do they hold out against the russians? who knows, not long. the business of predicting what putin and the rugtsssians are gg to do is fraught with danger and the expectations, the russian society have after their leader and the leader is supposed to provide them first and foremost with stability and safety, and even though this was a russian marching on, this is prigozhin, and his group marching on moscow, that is instability, and not to mention the ukraine war, that prigozhin said, putin said it s not true. it s a lie. that that cognitive dissonance, and inability, if russians get access to that, it will cause problems. he may have lost the confidence ....
And what happens now? ? is the wagner group not finished? i guess nobody nopes or do we know? it s absolutely fascinating. what apparently prigozhin was to be disbanned in the earnl of the russian army. that is why he did it, on the march on to moscow. supportedly to change the government, get rid of vladimir putin, become the strong man himself. and then he brings it back and now the actual same deal is doing. wagner and some are going to fly out and others will get contracted in place under the russian army. so wasn t it just an elaborate ....