menendez. we begin tonight with what comes next after this weekend. short-lived yet startling rebellion against russian president vladimir putin. saturday s march on led by the one-time protegee did a head blow to the strongman image. he still wages war on ukraine. today, we learned president biden spoke by phone with ukraine s president on the sudden instability in russia. the white house says president biden offered his, quote, unwavering support for ukraine s counteroffensive against ukraine. the revolt is the first serious threat to putin s power in decades. secretary of state anthony blinken today said could it could change the port of the democracy in ukraine. i think we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go. and when they get their. certainly we have all sorts of new questions that putin is going to have to address in the weeks and months ahead. and we also confirmed that u.s. intelligence agencies knew in ad
Menendez. we begin tonight with what comes next after this weekend. short-lived yet startling rebellion against russian president vladimir putin. saturday s march on led by the one-time protegee did a head blow to the strongman image. he still wages war on ukraine. today, we learned president biden spoke by phone with ukraine s president on the sudden instability in russia. the white house says president biden offered his, quote, unwavering support for ukraine s counteroffensive against ukraine. the revolt is the first serious threat to putin s power in decades. secretary of state anthony blinken today said could it could change the port of the democracy in ukraine. i think we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly
Russia and for the world which started as an open dispute between president putin and the head of the wagner group quickly escalated into a full on rebellion. but in a place like russia which is run by a brutal dictator who did an uprising even get off the ground? nbc s with a step by step look at what went down. [sound of artillery] [crying] the biggest challenge to president putin s 23 years in power. an unprecedented armed rebellion inside russia. clashes reaching veronica, a days drive from moscow. voters with the russian mercenary wagner group led by yevgeny prigozhin, abandoning ukraine and marching toward the russian capital. between [speaking non-english] president putin calling prigozhin s revealing a step in the back, treason, and betrayal. then late saturday in abrupt turnaround. a deal, apparently brokered by neighboring belarus.
Counteroffensive following this weekend s rebellion in russia. in a tweet zelenskyy said he and president biden discussed not only putin s war with russia but also the upcoming nato summit and ukraine s hope to join the alliance. zelenskyy also thinking the president and american people for continued support for fighting russia s invasion. msnbc foreign correspondent is in london for us. your sense of how this rebellion changes fighting inside ukraine? here s the thing actually a lot of those wagner fighters had already been withdrawn from the front lines especially around the area buckwheat which is a city that they conquered actor eight months of fighting, probably tens of thousands of dead. so there isn t going to be an immediate impact because all those fighters were already off the front lines. but this is going to shake the confidence of the top brass in moscow the top military brass. but it s also going to shake the confidence of a lot of those rank-and-file on the ground. bec
Find some kind of crack that they can get through. raf sanchez, elliott rafah, julia jester, thank you so much for starting us off tonight. it is good to see you all. thank you, still to come tonight, what this rebellion means for ukraine s push to join nato. as we reported, president biden and president zelenskyy discussing just that today. last representative joaquin castro of the house foreign affairs committee on the role of congress in the wake of this rebellion. we re going to get a report from moscow on what every day russians are saying. it s a country clouded by propaganda yet as you will, here russians do wonder where they go next. first, the other big stories we are tracking this hour at msnbc. anita? thank you, alicia, a moments ago a marine board investigation into the titan sub disaster. this summer so uploaded during a tour of the wreckage of the titanic killing all five people aboard. once complete, the investigation could recommend civil or criminal charges.