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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 group's rebellion a treasonous stab in the back. the wagner group's 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 right here on msnbc, but joining me now for more analysis is retired u.s. army lieutenant general step...

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 you would see in an elaborate defensive belt that has been dug in there for at least a year, and in m...

If we have a map of ukraine, that would be wonderful to have up, there it is. but lieutenant general, i don't know if you can see the map, but i'm 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, southeast of zaporizhzhia, that is where the major counterattack is happening in the donetsk region ther...

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 ukraine's 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 is something that you said the last time in the last break. initially, there is getting through the...

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 starts to happen, then we can start to look and determine whether or not in the situation here are the fo...