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world. i'm kim brunhuber. we begin this hour with breaking news out of russia. russian president vladimir putin is expected to speak to the nation soon as his country faces an unfolding crisis. wagner leader yevgeny progozhin claims his troops now control military facilities in rucertai regions. he's threatening to move on to moscow if top military leaders don't come down to meet him. but he claims he isn't interfering with russian military operations in ukraine. there he is. >> translator: we are at headquarters at 7:30 a.m. military facilities in rostov, including the airfield, are under our control. planes that leave for combat will leave as usual. medical flights are leaving as usual. all we did was to take control so that the attack aviation would not strike us but strike in the ukrainian direction. >> all right. so you're looking at a live look

right now at moscow where, as you can see, it's quiet now after military vehicles had been spotted in the streets. security has been stepped up in the russian capital. the mayor saying anti-terrorism measures are being carried out in the city. state media is reporting that security forces have cordoned off a wagner center in st. petersburg. all that is happening after russia opened a legal case against progozhin, accusing him of calling for an armed rebellion. on friday, he claimed that russian military struck a wagner camp and pledged retribution for that. this social media video shows the alleged strike but cnn can't verify its authenticity. russia's defense ministry denied that accusation. progozhin later claimed that military helicopters also hit his troops and civilians before two aircraft were shot down. now, it's not clear where the alleged incident happened. we're going to go right now to vladimir putin speaking. >> translator: when everything

must be put aside that makes us weaker. any differences that may be used and are used by our enemies to disrupt us from within. the action that split our unity are renegade actions against those fighting on the front. it's a stab in the back against our country and our nation. in 1917 while the country was fighting in world war i, but its victory was stolen from it. intrigues, bickering behind the nation's bam tck turned into a great catastrophe, the destruction of army and the collapse of a state, the loss of huge, vast territories, and the tragedy of a civil war when russians went against russians and brother went against

brother. and profiting from that were various enforcers that were tearing the country apart. we will not let that repeat. we will not let that happen again. we will defend our country and our state from any threats, including internal treason. and what we're facing now is treason. big ambitions and personal interests have led the betrayal of one's country, one's nations, and the cause for which wagner's group were fighting along with the armed forces. the towns and villages of donbas where they fought and gave their lives for the new russia, for the unity of the russian world, their name and glory have been betrayed by those who are trying to organize an armed rebellion,

pushing the country towards fratricide and civil war and ultimately to defeat and capitulation. i repeat, any internal rebellion is a deadly threat to our state, to us as a nation. it's a blow against russia, against our people, and our action to defend our motherland against such a threat will be harsh. all those who deliberately went on the path of treason were preparing an armed rebellion, were preparing terrorist attacks, will be punished inevitably and will be held accountable by law. the armed forces have been given the necessary orders. additional anti-terrorist security measures have been imposed in moscow region and a number of other regions.

decisive measures will be taken to stabilize the situation in rostov, which still remains difficult. as the president of russia, commander in chief, as a citizen of russia, i will do everything in my power to defend the country, to defend its constitution and the lives, security, and liberties of its citizens. and the one who organized and prepared the armed rebellion will turn weapons against their comrades, have betrayed russia, and they will be held accountable for that. and those who are being drawn on into this, i call upon you not to repeat the mistakes, previous mistakes. stop any participation in criminal actions. i am sure that we will defend

and protect what is dear and sacred to us. together with our motherland, we will overcome any ordeals, and we will become even stronger. >> all right. that was russian president vladimir putin just now addressing the nation after the perceived threat of wagner leader yevgeny progozhin. he said of progozhin's actions, quote, it is a stab in the back against our country and our nation, and he went on to say that "we will defend our country and our state against any threats, including treason." so ivan watson has been listening in to this speech. ivan, vladimir putin not mincing words there. what stood out for you? >> reporter: a couple of things, kim. first of all -- and i missed the very top of his address there, which came an hour later than had been expected actually. i did not hear him mention the name of yevgeny progozhin at any

time. so i thought that was significant given that progozhin was once a kremlin insider, who now seems to have turned on the state. he has described this as treason, as a mutiny, as a crime against russia. he invoked history. he said that in 1917, there was an armed rebellion during world war i that led to civil war, where russians ended up killing russians, brothers ended up killing brothers. and he said that tragedy must not be repeated. there were a couple of details towards the end of this that i thought were very important. he said that the armed forces and the security services had been issued additional orders for anti-terrorist actions. we know that has been announced in moscow right now, and he added in other regions. he said that the situation in rostov, that southern city and province, is complicated right

now, and he conceded that the command structure of the military and the civilian government there is currently blockaded and that it would be dealt with. so he also, finally, he tried to say that russia is in an existential battle right now. it is facing off against the west, he argues, which is using all of its weapons and abilities to try to divide and hurt russia, and that is why there needs to be a time of unity right now. finally, after really months of silence where yevgeny progozhin, the most powerful mercenary chieftain in russia, had been directly criticizing, cursing the russian military command, putin has taken a position now that you have mercenary groups on the ground moving north through russian territory. you finally have putin coming out and saying this will no

longer stand. the question is, is it too late? kim. >> yeah, absolutely. ivan, this is a fast-moving story. so in terms of where things stand right now, what is the latest on that? >> well, we know that progozhin himself popped up on video claiming to have taken over control of the russian military command in the south of the country. that's in rostov. and he's shown in videos sitting alongside who we believe to be the deputy defense minister of russia and a senior military intelligence general, who both looked very uncomfortable there. he accuses them of carrying out attacks against civilians, of sending russian troops into the war in ukraine without adequate leadership or military equipment. they're kind of quiet and clearly very uncomfortable there. they ask about taking his fighters away from there, and he says, under no condition. he says he's going to stay and

blockade rostov and move on moscow unless the chief of the general staff and the defense minister, sergei shoigu, come and meet him. in a separate video, he goes on to claim that the chief of general staff gir asmov has fled the building he is currently in as the wagner troops were approaching it. so we can't independently confirm any of these claims. we do, though, very much know that there are forces on the ground deployed around rostov. he also went on to claim that his forces had taken over control of an air base there, and he's completely attacked the legitimacy of the entire russian invasion of ukraine in february of last year, arguing that the pretext was not to fight alleged nazis or to restore order, but to help get promotions for the defense minister, sergei shoigu. as we've heard now in this

response from putin, this is now down to effectively a power struggle between the russian state, the kremlin, the armed forces, and this powerful mercenary group that has left the front lines in ukraine and is now pointing its guns at the state in russia. >> absolutely stunning developments. ivan watson in hong kong, thank you so much. and just to bring you up to speed, just moments ago, russian president vladimir putin addressing the nation, said of the conflict it's a stab in the back and calling it treason. all right. so amid all that turmoil in russia, a simple message from ukraine's ministry of defense. quote, we are watching. meanwhile, a russian political scientist shared this message, saying, quote, everyone calm down. there's no revolution. progozhin straightaway clearly stated he will not touch the authorities except for the already hostile military. for more now on how those developments could affect ukraine, we're joined by ben

wedeman in zaporizhzhia. so, ben, i can just imagine how this is all being greeted there in ukraine. what has been the reaction? >> reporter: well, the general feeling is that, kim, this is christmas in june for the ukrainians, keeping in mind that, of course, ukraine is in the very initial stages of its counteroffensive against russian forces. and this could not come at a better time for the ukrainians to have the russian armed forces writ large, its mercenary corps as well as its regular army, seeming to implode at the moment. in fact, what is circulating on the internet here, on social media in ukraine is a picture of president volodymyr zelenskyy, a video of him from when he was an actor popping a beer, sitting down in a comfortable armchair, picking up a bowl of popcorn and watching the tv. and that seems to be the

attitude, the reaction of many here. we have heard from an adviser to the presidency, talking about the infighting between the russian elite at this critical moment and saying that everything is just beginning. now, yesterday, in fact, we were in one of those frontline areas where it appears they are preparing for a push, to really launch the major part of this counteroffensive, and certainly this is the ideal time for the ukrainians to do that given what appears to be russia's paralysis at the moment trying to deal with this essentially uprising by progozhin against the defense establishment in moscow. kim? >> all right. ben wedeman in zaporizhzhia, ukraine. thank you so much. i want to bring in cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson, who joins us from london.

nic, i just want to get your reaction to what we just heard from putin. certainly not mincing words about the perceived threat. >> reporter: he's not, and those people responsible will be held accountable. as ivan was reporting, he's using language that says the military have been given additional powers, counterterrorist powers in moscow, in the moscow region, in other regions. rostov-on-don a particular problem clearly. i mean it's so unusual to have this sort of language from president putin to admit that there are problems and that he needs to take these extreme measures. so i think that gives you a sense of the severity and the difficulty of the situation. but there must be questions in president putin's mind. if we look back to the beginning of may, the end of april, one of the big feathers in yevgeny progozhin's cap wasn't that he was fighting the war for the

russian country in bakhmut and helping the victory there. it was that one of russia's deputy defense ministers resigned from the defense ministry, and less than a week later was absorbed into wagner's mercenary group, into progozhin's mercenary group, wagner, at a command position. it seemed to indicate a level of support within the russian military, and particularly its hierarchy, for progozhin's views, that this view must have some prevalence. and that will be a concern for putin because the test is going to be now when push comes to shove, which bits of the military can he rely on to take down progozhin? how long will progozhin's fighters stand by him? and, of course, what will the outfall be? it's going to throw into very sharp focus whether or not the war in ukraine is being fought properly, is worth being fought,

and the more the war in ukraine and the necessity of the invasion and having that fight is called into question, the more it's going to weaken putin's position. and i think the other thing that just becomes clearer is how isolated putin has become. he has stayed out of addressing this issue. in fact, it's remarkable how long he's allowed this developing agenda from progozhin to call russia's military into question, to call out the chief of defense staff, to call out shoigu, the defense minister as failing. now putin has really had to step in and deal with it, but has let it go for so long, a lot of damage has happened underneath the surface. and that also doesn't speak to putin's strength. certainly for those in the close circle, in the kremlin around him, those with a vested interest in the economic future of russia will perhaps begin to

question more whether he is the man to do it. this is not going to unfold today. today it's a military operation. today this is about taking down progozhin and ending this standoff that's developing in parts of the country. it's not clear how quickly that's going to happen. but putin at this moment is in a weaker position because he has lost a very key and previously trusted core ally, one of the very few people that putin will have trusted, and now will potentially leave him, putin, more at the mercy of the dictate of his defense minister and defense staff. >> it's just hard to believe what's unfolding right now. i really appreciate your analysis nic robertson. thank you so much. still ahead, the search for answers in the titan submersible tragedy. what we're learning about what went wrong and when. stay with us. every night. okay... . i'll work on that. the queen n sleep number 360 2 smart bed is now only $899. plusus, 48-month financing on all smart beds.

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i want to start with our breaking news out of russia. president vladimir putin is warning wagner mercenaries that anyone involved in treason or armed rebellion will be punished. he spoke a short time ago after wagner's leader claimed his troops took control of military facilities in rostov-on-don. russia's defense ministry is urging prigozhin's mercenaries to return to their permanent deployment while russia. mark hertling weighed in on the crisis in russia, and he spoke about the government's response to prigozhin's threats and how the feud could have an impact on the war in ukraine. here he is. >> you're seeing military vehicles logering, forming groups within red square, increasing the security around the moscow region itself. you're also seeing on telegram channels some firefights going on in the province of rostov.

this is where prigozhin said he was going to go with his forces, and he also said his forces were attacked by helicopters when they were in a column going into russia. but rostov is about 200 miles away from moscow. so you don't create a coup outside of a capital city where putin is and holding court. but this comes at a horrible time. all afternoon long, you've seen russian generals get on telegram channels saying prigozhin, don't do what you're doing right now. it's going to be harmful to what we do. you now see the map of rostov outside the border of ukraine. and, again, to the northeast of that is the capital of moscow. it would take a long time for prigozhin and his troops to do something within the capital city where a coup is normally formulated. but you have all these generals, russian generals on telegram channels today saying, prigozhin, don't do this. it's only going to hurt our

cause. the ukrainians are coming to our zero line, which is what they call their final defensive line, and we have control. don't mess with them now. there's a whole different subset between russian generals and what's going on in the kremlin and what the individual soldiers are experiencing on the front line. but when that trust and when that command infrastructure further breaks down, as we've seen it done so many times during this war within the russian hierarchy, it only causes more problems at the front. so this is a fascinating dynamic of personalities inside of moscow and the kremlin. how much is it going to affect the front line? i'm not sure just yet. but i got to tell you, i'd much rather be on the ukrainian side right now than the russian side because there is utter chaos and dysfunction allegedly on the russian side whereas the ukrainian side continue with their momentum and their offensive.

>> i'm joined by m. stephen fi fish. thank you so much for joining us here. moments ago, we just heard putin's strongly worded response to the crisis, calling it a stab in the back and treason. what stood out to you? >> well, he's calling a traitor the same guy he's been relying on for many months in the field in ukraine. this is the only guy, prigozhin, who has really been able to make any battlefield gains. and so far putin has actually not stood up to him. so this makes putin, in fact, look very weak indeed. putin has been deluded since the beginning of this war. she have never launched this war to begin with, and prigozhin is the one guy who's actually been able to deliver some gains on the ground for him. but then today prigozhin also issued a video where he questioned the whole basis for this war effort. he said that putin's whole line about east ukrainians, russian speakers in east ukraine being

abused by the ukrainian government, using this as a pretext for this war, was nonsense. he said the war was all about lining the pockets of putin's oligarchs. so he's undercut the whole basis for the war, and putin has actually made himself dependent on this guy who is now turning against him. so this is a very uncomfortable position for putin to be in. >> absolutely. as you say, prigozhin has been testing the boundaries practically since the war began, challenging moscow's authority. why do you think putin allowed prigozhin this much leeway? it seems odd that putin wouldn't say what's happening now as a likely potential outcome. >> well, he should have seen this all along, and it's possible that he did see the danger of it. but, again, prigozhin is the only guy in the field who seems to be delivering gains. look, the army and the ministry of defense are hopelessly corrupt. they really haven't been a very competent fighting force in ukraine. and here comes this guy, who's got this militant loyalty of all these thousands of troops he

pulls together. a lot of them are former felons he's pulled out of prison. and he puts them together in this fighting formation, and they actually deliver from gains on the ground for putin. so they're kind of like the only force that's actually been able to make any headway in ukraine at all. the fact that in the 21st century in a major army, we're talking about some mercenary organization fighting alongside a regular army and being the force that's making the gains seem pretty weird. but this is the russian military and this is russia. this is the way things work. >> yeah, and i mean one could argue, i suppose, that prigozhin exposing the central lie of the war, as you said, putin's rationale for the so-called special operation, that that is as dangerous to putin as any military threat from prigozhin. what effect do you think that will have on putin's grip on power? >> i think it's going to have an effect. look, i mean this guy came out and really called it like it was. he told the truth about the whole basis of this war.

now, if this were coming out of nowhere, just coming from somebody who had no public authority, it wouldn't mean much. but all these months, putin has been hunkered down in the kremlin. russians see him on tv occasionally meeting with some other foreign dictator at a table groaning with caviar. he's not on tv all the time, you know, organizing the troops and trying to buck up morale in society. he's just kind of absent from this whole war effort while tens of thousands of russian men go into the meat grinder, about which he clearly does not care. and then you've got this other guy on the ground, this gritty prigozhin, in army fatigues, on the ground with his troops, fighting on the front lines, and putting out videos every day talking about his war exploits. i think the danger here isn't that prigozhin's army is going to be able to somehow overwhelm the fsb troops that are waiting for him near moscow and other troops that are in russia. it's that a lot of troops in the

fsb and other coercive agencies in the army who are in russia, who are going to be expected to stand up to him, might actually regard prigozhin favorably. and it's not clear that they're going to fight back the way putin wants them to at this point because prigozhin seems to be like the only guy who's really got the guts that it takes to prosecute this war right now. putin certainly doesn't seem to be that kind of a guy. remember in a dictatorship like this, and especially a single-man dictatorship like russia, the main man stays in power by seeming impregnable, by seeming unassailable, really strong, like nobody can possibly stand up to him. you get one guy like prigozhin, who has the temerity to stand up to putin, and putin looks very weak, and everything can change very quickly under those circumstances. >> yeah. massive implications for all of this. really great to get your expertise on this developing story. m. steven fish, thank you so

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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." russian president vladimir putin has condemned what he calls an armed rebellion by wagner mercenary chief yevgeny prigozhin. in a speech to the nation, putin promised to punish those who,

quote, deliberately went on a path of treason. it co-- the wagner chief says hs retaliating against the russian defense ministry for allegedly killing many of his mercenaries in a strike, a claim the ministry denies. prigozhin further criticized the russian military. >> translator: the ukrainian counteroffensive is bringing us serious losses and problems, which are hushed up, which the russian people don't know about. when the trouble comes, i'll repeat, we may remain without an army and without russia. >> the former kremlin insider now accused of treason has a sizeable army at his command. so who exactly is yevgeny prigozhin? how did a former chief for vladimir putin -- or former chef, rather, for vladimir putin become the head of a large ruthless and heavily armed mercenary group? let's bring in cnn's salma

abdelaziz in london. salma, what's behind his dramatic fallout with moscow? >> reporter: to answer your first question, kim, how did he become the man behind a ruthless mercenary army? he became that because president putin allowed it. it was during the annexation of crimea in 2014 when president putin turned to a close friend, an inside ally, and that was yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, who was able to provide him with the manpower he needed. he went on to be known, or the wagner mercenary group to be known as putin's private army, carrying out his bidding from the central african republic, where they were seeking mines, to military interventions in syria and libya, to setting up factories to interfere with u.s. elections. but all of that was done with prigozhin behind the curtain, never claiming credit. it is only since the invasion of ukraine that he has stepped into the limelight, and he has done it loudly and antagonistically,

using this period, this invasion in ukraine, to show up the russian military time and time again, most recently in bakhmut, to call them out publicly whenever they can with the most inflammatory language possible, saying the defense minister should be tried for failing the country, addressing the russian people directly. and the question this whole time, kim, has been why hasn't putin done nothing about it? why has he allowed this figure to rise to such a level of prominence and to air russia's dirty laundry? we may now, of course, have that response from president putin, who spoke just a few minutes ago, of course accusing prigozhin of treason, saying he will be held accountable. but is it too late? what really stood out to me in those few moments that president putin addressed his countrymen was that he never once uttered the name of prigozhin. perhaps a sign of just how irritated he's become with how

public a figure prigozhin has been. but there's a very complex problem here. throughout this conflict, president putin has allowed prigozhin to antagonize the russian military, and it is those russian military leaders now that president putin has to turn to when it comes to prigozhin, the problem, no longer prigozhin, the problem solver. all of this will play out in a very complicated way, and it will take time, weeks, days, more. what we need to keep our eye on right now is how does russia, how does the russian military get its hands on prigozhin, who has blockaded himself in rostov-on-don, who has heavily armed guards? what does that military operation look like, and could it turn bloody? >> that's the question. all eyes around the wowowowill be watching. salma abdelaziz in london, thank you so much. new investigations launched

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all right. let's get you up to speed with breaking news out of russia. president vladimir putin is warning wagner mercenaries that anyone involved in treason or armed rebellion will be punished. he spoke a short time ago after wagner's leader claimed his troops took control of military facilities in rostov-on-don. russia's defense ministry is

urging yevgeny prigozhin's mercenaries to return to their permanent deployment. new investigations are now under way into the titan submersible tragedy. canadian and u.s. authorities are trying to figure out what caused it to implode and kill all five people on board. some search vessels returned to port friday night while others are continuing to map the debris and establish a timeline of what went wrong. this has all brought renewed scrutiny into the safety practices of the company behind the submersible. cnn's miguel marquez takes us through what we're learning. >> reporter: a day of mourning. flag at half-staff. a rose for each victim of the titan. >> he was this big, lovable guy who's a prankster, but he cared so much about his family. >> reporter: jean pascal speaking about paul-henri

narg nargeolet, known as mr. titanic for the number of dives he made to the ship. >> honestly when he told me he was going back out for this expedition, when i saw him in may, i really honestly didn't think twice about it. i just said, okay. great. have fun. i'll see you in july. >> reporter: the implosion of the titan underscoring the controversial design of the deep-water sub and the materials -- carbon fiber and titanium. it had reached the titanic several times before, but the ocean at those depths, unforgiving. >> this device was built much different than most diving submersibles. instead of using a sphere, which is very strong under pressure, instead it used two hemispheres on each end and then a cylinder in between made out of carbon fiber. it looks like it was that portion made out of carbon fiber that failed. >> reporter: the world of deep water submersibles small, very close, and highly specialized.

making the rounds in that community, a possible last transmission from p.h. nargeolet to the mother ship, the polar prince. >> the other thing that i heard was that p.h. had contacted the surface ship and said there was a problem. we're dropping weights and surfacing immediately. now, i can't verify that, but that to me meant something really happened very quickly. >> reporter: most of the ships participating in the massive search and rescue mission now returning to home port. some still on the scene, mapping the debris field, looking for clues in the shadow of the titanic, trying to understand with certainty what caused this latest tragedy in this isolated corner of the atlantic. so what they're doing now is mapping that debris field, trying to get a sense of the dynamic of that implosion and to drill down basically into what exactly happened. was it the carbon fiber hull? was it the titanium? was it the window? was it a combination of some or

all of those things? they may also want to bring up pieces of the titan, but that will be much more difficult. back to you. >>. still ahead. hot and muggy. we'll get the weather forecast for the first weekend of the summer when we come back. stay with us. okay... i'll work on that. the queen sleep number 360 c2 smart bed is now only $89999. plus, 48-month financing on all smart beds. shop now only at sleep number

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named storms are lurking in the atlantic. meteorologist chad myers has more from the cnn weather center here in atlanta. >> a few headlines for saturday. rain in the east. big storms, severe weather in the middle part of the country and also extremely hot weather still stuck in texas. here's what the radar is going to look like according to the computer models with storms in iowa and then moving off to the east. some of them will be severe, again on your saturday. then for sunday, some of the severe weather may move into kentucky and then eventually the carolinas for monday into the beginning of next week. here's what your saturday looks like, though. the risk of severe weather right centered over des moines all the way down really from northern minnesota all the way down even into arkansas with the potential for that weather to pop up. there will be some heavier rainfall as well in the yellow. that's two inches of rain or more. there are some orange spots in there, which is four inches of rain. excessive rainfall possible with the flash flood threat there for the middle part of the country. now, the second part of this. all the way down into parts of

texas where the heat has been on, and it will not go away. another hot day on saturday. another hot day on sunday. i'm going to show you dallas' seven-day and you're not going to like it. big heat dome over the deep south. heat and humidity. not only is it going to be over 100 degrees, the heat index could approach 120 in some of these cities. so here are the high temperatures over the next couple. west texas really the hottest. this is air temperature in the shade. then if you look a little bit farther to the east where the humidity is very, very muggy along the gulf coast, humidity, heat added together for houston. it's going to feel like 114 on monday. dallas, look at this. you should be 93, and you're over 100 all the way through the middle part of next week. no cold front. no relief in sight. out here in the atlantic ocean, watching bret and cindy. bret has really lost all of its intensity there and will eventually die a poor death there in the caribbean.

cindy, though, will last a little bit longer, travel on up toward the north, but not make it all the way to the u.s. it doesn't look like there's enough shear to really tear it apart. by the time we work our way into sunday afternoon, probably just a tropical depression or even less. so, yes, your saturday looks hot, stormy, and wet in the east. and a little windy across parts of new mexico with fire threats going there, also into southern arizona. have a great day. i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back in just a moment with the latest on the breaking news out of russia, including vladimir putin's speech at the top of the hour in which he said, we will defend our country and our state against any threats, against all threats including treason. our coverage continues in just a few moments. please stay with us.

. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world, i'm kim brunhuber, we begin this hour with breaking news out of russia. russian president vladimir putin has sent a blunt warning to wagner mercenaries as the nation is in the midst of extraordinary turmoil. he addressed the nation a short time ago saying that anyone involved in treason or armed rebellion will be punished. he also called what's happening in south western russia amounts to an armed rebellion. now, earlier wagner's leader claimed his troops took control

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