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The breaking news out of russia. russian president vladimir putin is promising swift justice for a mercenary group whose revolt he calls an armed mutiny. in an overnight address, putin calls the wagner groups rebellion a treasonous stab in the back. the wagner groups leader claims he and his fighters have taken control of a southern russian city where the headquarters for the war in ukraine are based. nbc news is working to verify these claims. we will follow this breaking story all morning righ...

Wagner group in bakhmut where they are credited for russias gains in controlling that city. with the wagner group headed in russia and potentially towards moscow, i am wondering if the morale of the russian troops that are left behind, is there any indication or any thought that those russian troops will fold? the two ukrainian forces without the backup of the wagner group. >> well here is another thought for you. so to answer your question, yes, but there could be a possibility that russian for...

From the southern city that he says he is occupying to moscow as he has threatened. >> he absolutely does. if you remember, and i want you to think about this, he is the only force that has been successful in ukraine. he was able to take bakhmut when the russians cannot do it. and so when you look across the war in ukraine, the best year and a half, the russian military has been a failure in kyiv, theyve been a failure in pierson, theyve been a failure in kharkiv. and so prigozhin has had some s...

But what does the military do as he appears to be advancing towards moscow with incredible, ardent, loyal military militia. and so i am looking very closely at that. and im also looking closely at what putin does in moscow in the city. of course everybody is quiet right now, by all accounts, prigozhin is making progress. this is the biggest crisis that vladimir putin has faced yet and his presidency bar none. he has been able to, until now, maintain control over these independent mercenary milit...

Putin, who are unhappy with putin in agree with prigozhin. >> you spoke earlier about the morale of the wagner groups mercenaries and their loyalty to -- prigozhin. what about the morale of the russian troops are being left behind as the wagner group forces move north into russia? is there any potential that those russian troops will fold in the face of what is happening now. the ukrainian counteroffensive? >> right. the winner and all of this of course is ukraine. there is now essentially a civ...

Ammunition and you dont part any guardrails associated with them, and you tell them to get out there and fight. they could turn on you. and this is what is happening now. on you and >> and lieutenant general, e other thing, and correct me if im wrong that we should keep in mind in terms of the resources of the wagner group, its not just that they have been hired by putin to basically fight his war and do some more successfully than his own troops, but that prigozhin, the head of the wagner group...

But getting back to what we know about whether or not the wagner group actually has taken over rostov-on-don, the name of that city close to the ukrainian border, we have seen video taken by reuters which reports to show wagner group tanks on the streets on rostov-on-don, the soldiers walking around and moving freely. but we have not been able to independently verify that in fact they control that entire city, a city of more than 1 million people. and also, the place where russia is orchestratin...

Having control of the seat of power there, in his administration are firmly in control at this particular point. i do see this more as a mutiny. and again, we will see if this thing gets ground swell from two locations. number one, the russian civilians. that is what we should be watching for. will the support start to turn in favor of the wagner group versus putin? and number two, whether we start to get a groundswell of support from the western military favoring the wagner group. if that start...

Groundswell of support from russian civilians. then you are dealing with a civil war and then this makes it a war for putin on two fronts. so this is the worst disaster for putin if this groundswell occurs. the other thing is that this provides an opportunity for them to drive a wedge here and use this to their advantage during the war. putins mind now is on his own internal conflict, and so this provides an area to where the ukrainians can take advantage of if they can move out and see some opp...