House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) said on Sunday that Yevgeny Prigozhin had multiple accomplices inside Russia to pull off his feat of moving his forces from Ukraine to within two hours of Moscow in less than a day.

Turner’s remarks come after Prigozhin moved thousands of his Wagner troops hundreds of miles through Russia to take on the country’s military leadership before halting roughly 100 miles outside Russia’s capital and ordering his troops to turn around.

“And then entering into Moscow — entering into Russia itself and taking their convoy to Moscow, that really shows to the basic issue of whether or not Putin controls his military,” Turner said. “For any government to have stability, they have to control their military. Obviously Prigozhin, in order to make it that distance, has to have accomplices.”

“You know, where was the air force?” he asked. “Where was the Russian air force in preventing this? That’s going to be an issue that — that Putin is going to have to deal with both internationally and domestically, is his government, as an authoritarian government depends, on its assertion of power, force, in order to be able to contain — to continue to wield power, and that certainly is going to be an issue.”

Turner said that he could not get into what intelligence U.S. officials have on the situation other than they are paying very close attention to it.

“[Prigozhin]’s a military guy,” Turner added. “Remember, this is like a 12-hour trip from Ukraine to Moscow, and he got within two hours of Moscow. Now, being a military guy, he understands the logistics and really the assistance that he’s going to need to do that. This is not a weekend trip he’s taking, taking his convoy, and his military convoy, up to Moscow.”

“There’s a number of accomplices, including, as we saw, some of the Russian people on the border with Ukraine who clearly support the Wagner group, in contrast to their support for the Russian government,” he added. “This is something that would have had to been planned for a significant amount of time to be executed in the manner in which it was.”

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) said over the weekend that the report that was given to President Joe Biden about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has classified intelligence in it that contradicts information that was released last week by the Intelligence Community.

Turner made the remarks during an interview a CBS News with Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” when asked about why the IC report seemed “so inconclusive.”

“We passed a law saying, declassify the information that you have about the COVID and Wuhan lab’s activities,” Turner said. “What they did is they basically went and — and did a paper on what they believe about the intelligence they’ve looked at. I will give an example of this. We’ve asked to open the curtain and release the intelligence, and they went behind the curtain, read this stuff, and came out and said, well, this is what we think about it.”

“This is not sufficient,” he continued. “And, certainly, this is going to be — set up between a battle between Congress and the director of national intelligence to make certain that — that the law that was passed unanimously, both the Senate and the House and signed by the president, is complied with, but also the American public get the answers they deserve.”

When asked about the “classified annex” in the report, Turner said that even that “goes against what the law says.”

“The law says declassify, not give us more classified information,” he said. “I mean, my committee has already seen a significant amount of this intelligence. Giving my committee more intelligence doesn’t give it to the American public, and that’s what the declassification law was about.”

When asked if there was “a definitive conclusion that the government’s not releasing,” Turner responded: “I have seen, for example, the classified annex to the report that President Biden requested the intelligence community gave.”

“In the report that was given to the President, the 90-day-or-so report, they have — they have information in that report that contradicts, I believe, the impressions that are given in — in these statements by the Intelligence Committee,” he added. “We want the intelligence released, not their opinion about the intelligence. If we wanted their opinion, we would have asked for it. We passed a law saying, declassify it. It’s the law of the land. Release this so the American public and see it.”

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