What Russian attempted mutiny means for Putin's grip on power | WNT

more now on the turmoil inside Russia

and what this means for Putin's grip on

power let's bring in ABC's Patrick Revel

also in Ukraine tonight Patrick it

appears crisis averted at least for now

but this is a fluid situation and it

raises major questions about Russian

leadership and the war in Ukraine

wait yeah I mean this has been an

extraordinary roller coaster day and I

think at the end of it is left many

people with questions and frankly

confused about what happened because

what we thought we were seeing was an

armed attempt at overthrowing Vladimir

Putin's regime but it seemed to end with

sort of just dissipating with Vladimir

Putin saying that he would not be

prosecuting evgeny pregosian or any of

the Wagner Fighters I think that what we

can say is that this without a doubt has

left Putin looking weaker and showing it

just simply a very chaotic security

situation in Russia and obviously that

poses major questions now tomorrow and

what we will see going forward with the

war in Ukraine

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more now on the turmoil inside Russia

and what this means for Putin's grip on

power let's bring in ABC's Patrick Revel

also in Ukraine tonight Patrick it

appears crisis averted at least for now

but this is a fluid situation and it

raises major questions about Russian

leadership and the war in Ukraine

wait yeah I mean this has been an

extraordinary roller coaster day and I

think at the end of it is left many

people with questions and frankly

confused about what happened because

what we thought we were seeing was an

armed attempt at overthrowing Vladimir

Putin's regime but it seemed to end with

sort of just dissipating with Vladimir

Putin saying that he would not be

prosecuting evgeny pregosian or any of

the Wagner Fighters I think that what we

can say is that this without a doubt has

left Putin looking weaker and showing it

just simply a very chaotic security

situation in Russia and obviously that

poses major questions now tomorrow and

what we will see going forward with the

war in Ukraine.Ukraine is once again undertaking "major offensive operations" following a reset, according to British military intelligence.

"Ukrainian units are making gradual but steady tactical progress in key areas," the UK defence ministry said.

Its army has used two weeks of probing to refine its tactics for assaulting "well-prepared Russian defences".

At the same time, Russia has launched offensives in the Luhansk province near Kremina.

"This probably reflects continued Russian senior leadership orders to go on the offensive whenever possible," the UK MoD said.

Russia has made some "small gains" in the in the Serebryanka Forest, but Ukraine has "prevented a breakthrough".Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin will be exiled from Russia to Belarus as part of a truce agreed with Vladimir Putin after an explosive armed rebellion raced to Moscow on Saturday.

The mutiny was called off at the 11th hour as Prigozhin said he wanted to “avoid bloodshed”. Wagner’s forces were about four hours away from Moscow when news of the dramatic turnaround came.

His decision to stop Wagner soldiers storming through Moscow saved him and his men from facing criminal charges over the attempted coup, the Kremlin said.

The move marked a humiliating climbdown for Putin after he earlier vowed to take revenge on those behind the mutiny.

Prigozhin, who sent out a series of audio and video updates during his revolt, has gone silent since the Kremlin announced the deal had been brokered for him to end his march and leave Russia.

Before the mutiny was called off, there was speculation about Putin’s whereabouts after one of his planes was seen leaving Moscow.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said: “The man from the Kremlin is obviously very scared and is probably hiding somewhere.”