Page 8 - Steph Twitty News Today

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...

You can see russia there, between russia, going through all of that red, which is occupied by the russian forces with about 600 miles of russian defense down to the crimea peninsula there. and so if you can cut that red there, then you can cut the flow of russian goods, services. you can seize back the oblast. and so that is the intent of this. but what is going to be a hard fight is in that red, you have tanks, artillery, infantry dug in. trench systems, wires, minds. you have everything that y...

If we have a map of ukraine, that would be wonderful to have up, there it is. but lieutenant general, i dont know if you can see the map, but im wondering -- >> i can see it. >> great, you can see it. in terms of the counteroffensive, walk viewers through in terms of those cities that are outlined on the map, where is the counteroffensive happening, and where could possible gains by ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy happened. >> sure. so if you see there in zaporizhzhia, just south, southe...

Ukraine are based. nbc news is working to verify these claims. retired u.s. army content steph twitty, former deputy commander of command is back with me. lieutenant general, let me, i want to pick up on the conversation you and i were having just before the break. the slow progress we were talking about in terms of ukraines counteroffensive that has begun, or had begun before all of this internal strife in russia took place yesterday. if we have it, i would love to pull up a map, because there ...

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...

First battlefield gain since launching its much touted counter offensive against russian forces saying its military liberated a string of villages over the weekend. those modest wins just the beginning of what is expected to be a long and bloody push to break russian lines. it also marks the battlefield debut of some advanced western weapons. nbcs raf sanchez is reporting for zaporizhzhia, ukraine, near some of the fiercest fighting, and lieutenant general steph twitty is still with us. he confi...

It gives them something to point to, to tell the public the counter offensive is gaining steam. at one of these villages, speaking of symbolism, its name translates in english, the place that gives blessings and when the fighting was finished, the russian forces were driven out. villagers emerged from the basements, bunkers, they had been hiding in and were overjoyed to see ukrainian troops there, seeing the blue and yellow ukrainian flag flying over their village once again. you mentioned we ar...

Lieutenant general twitty, thanks for being here. a more tradition alt take two. ron desantis is officially kicking off his presidential campaign in iowa after that rocky presidential launch on twitter. how hes looking to contrast himself with front-runner donald trump. and a fallen star in the lone star state. what happens next for texas attorney general ken paxton after he was impeached in a historic rebuke by his fellow republicans? and now shes got myplan. the game changing new plan that...

They were all shot down and the kremlin has said that president putin was briefed very early. there were some light injuries, there was light damage. two people hospitalized. moscow is potting the finger at kyiv. a senior ukrainian official today says we are watching closely but denies they have anything to do with it, ana. >> so general twitty, denying direct involvement although one of the officials there says they were pleased to observe this and predict an increase in the number of attacks, ...

In my mind to say, okay, were going to now start to go after president zelenskyy. they failed in taking kyiv. they failed in taking kherson, theyre failing in bakhmut. theyre at the last stance here and nothing has worked for them, so i anticipate extreme attacks on kyiv itself and possibly attacks on the president of ukraine. >> wow. lieutenant general steph twitty, richard engel. we know you both are going to be watching closely for any new developments, and were going to continue to follow an...