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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. nbc's raf sanchez is reporting for zaporizhzhia, ukraine, near some of the fiercest fighting, and lieutenant general steph twitty is still with us. he confirmed the counter offensive is underway. what else do we know? >> reporter: well, chris, we are hear...

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 are for the first time seeing american-made bradley fighting vehicles on the battlefield east of where...

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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, so if it isn't ukraine then who? is there a resistance inside russia capable of carrying out an atta...

In my mind to say, okay, we're going to now start to go after president zelenskyy. they failed in taking kyiv. they failed in taking kherson, they're failing in bakhmut. they're 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 we're going to continue to follow and bring our viewers new information as we get it. thank you, both. let's turn to the manhunt i...