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Meeting with erdogan, and you can bet there will be a lot of pressure. a lot well be watching. were going ahead about 1,500 miles east of kyiv where there was an emotional home coming for five ukrainian commanders held as prisoner of war. nbcs kelly cobiella will be following this from kyiv. russia is incredibly angry about these men returning home. help explain this for us. >> reporter: these men were part of the 80 day siege defending the city of mariupol from the steel plant in mariupol, ho...

Spokesman, they discussed the war on ukraine which they still insist on calling a special military operation, they discussed wagner groups performance in it and its mutiny. and according to the spokesman, vladimir putin voiced his opinions on the events ofjune as hearing explanations from the commanders attending the meeting that the russian president put forward options for wagner groups possible future employment and military deployment. and it seems to indicate the kremlin saw at that moment ...

Suggests, then we probably need to rethink what were giving ukraine or the president needs to declare a national emergency and force the production of the munitions that we need should we have a war in the future. this is a tough place. if what the president is saying is truly factual and the defense department its arsenals are being drained to support the ukrainians, we need to turn to nato and say you need to produce your fair share. we provided over $40 billion in kinetic goods in order to fu...

Of those areas, they are having to pull back. not by much, but they certainly still are. theres a lot of things here that many people, not just internationally but also in russia, are scratching their heads about. the kremlin came out and said that yevgeny prigozhin would have to go to belarus. well, it turns out it seems hes not in belarus. in fact, the belarusian strongman alexander lukashenko said that he was still in russia. and now in this meeting today, we heard from the kremlin that vladi...

Hours. heres james longman from inside ukraine tonight. >> reporter: a new twist tonight in that dramatic failed wagner revolt against vladimir putin and moscow. the kremlin now claiming that just five days after ending his june 24 rebellion, wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin actually met with putin face-to-face. a kremlin spokesman saying prigozhin was among 35 wagner commanders at the meeting, which lasted three hours, alleging they pledged their loyalty to putin. this is the first reported conta...

Stood out to us, because weve been talking so much about what happened next with yevgeny prigozhin, with wagner. it seems he was completely down and out. one of the things that vladimir putin said in that meeting is he talked to the commanders, including prigozhin, about possible future deployments. now, of course, that could mean that maybe there could be a comeback for the wagner private military company on the battlefields in ukraine where of course, they were extremely dangerous. especially ...

Mutiny happened putin out out a vud saying it was treason. the director of the mutiny said he would have to go into exile to belarus. a couple days ago, the leader of belarus told cnn that prigozhin is still in st. petersburg, still in russia. now were getting this word that there was a meeting five days after the mutiny took place. the notes from that meeting, some of the things kremlin is acknowledging about that meeting, they say that vladimir putin met with yevgeny prigozhin and 35 other com...

So, another strange twist in this story, steve. whats actually going on? strange twist, bizarre. what can you say? it is very strange indeed. on the day of the mutiny vladimir putin had called the organisers traitors who had stamped rusher in the back. he promised they would be punished. five days later, goodness me, he was sitting down with them in the kremlin, with yevgeny prigozhin, the commanders of wagner, chatting about what had happened. what does this tell us about the relationship betwe...

Uprising. the president listened to the explanations given by the commanders and offered them options for further employment and further military service, the kremlin spokesman said. this after kremlin-controlled media spent weeks trashing prigozhin like in this segment on a popular show last night. the reporter is saying prigozhin is not the robinhood he tried to pass himself off as, he was a businessman with a criminal past. after the mutiny, the kremlin had said prigozhin would essentially be...

Of june, then, you know, yevgeny prigozhin, you can see there, the leader of wagner agreed to, i think, go into exile in belarus and take some of his wagner soldiers with him. i was recently in belarus and the leader of that country, alexander lukashenko told me that, in fact, prigozhin had never arrived and was in russia and now we learn that five days after the uprising on june the 29th, prigozhin had a face-to-face meeting with putin along with 30 or so commanders, many of them wagner, its no...