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Wagner plane, but according to the russians, according to tass, prigozhin was on the first one and that a number of bodies, not prigozhins body, but a number of bodies have been recovered, including one of the wagners top leaders, a second in command under prigozhin. although, in wagner, there really was never a true second in command. this was really a prigozhin outfit, a prigozhin cult. there were other enablers, powerful figures, and one of them apparently was killed. >> can i interrupt you r...

Massive ripple effect, the cohesiveness of it at a time when the ukraine fight is not really certain how much russian combat power is still available and how long they can endure in their defensive situation. >> where do russians go, and including members of the russian military in 2023 and whats the level of trust in russian media? >> level of trust in russian media obviously controlled by the kremlin is very low. telegram has been the place where everyones gone, especially after the invasion o...

Passengers. russian state media reporting that all ten of them are dead and on the passenger manifest for that flight was the name of yevgeny prigozhin. now, we dont at this point know for certain whether or not he was actually on that plane, just the fact that his name was on the list of the passengers expected to be on that flight, but certainly this is triggering a whole lot of concern and speculation about whether this might have been intentional. we know there obviously had been some major ...

Would have the bodies. while were on live tv, i want to emphasize what you were talking about with josh. theres now telegram statements from russia saying there were two planes, and the second prigozhin plane has landed in moscow, so i just want to underscore, we dont know those bodies yet. but there are lots of other confirming things coming from russian telegram sources with alleged contacts to the wagner group confirming that mr. prigozhin was on the plane that fell out of the sky. >> all rig...

It would be interesting if they were both killed. that would be a form of decapitation, basically of the wagner group leadership in one strike. this comes on a day, as you were noting, in terms of general of the air force being relieved. if all of these things line up, it would appear to be basically the elimination of a lot of the leadership and some of the top ranking leaders of what is connected to the wagner group, and i just think the point that the ambassador made right before i came on ab...

Their advance on moscow. wagner forces claimed to capture key military cities about halfway to moscow, the wagner chief who has been an increasingly strident critics of leadership. he will not be prosecuted and live in belarus. he brokered a deal. now kilie, although these events caught most of the world off guard including vladimir putin, we should note, western allies were quick to reaffirm their support for ukraine. this does leave a precarious diplomatic situation with a major world power. h...

If we look at the wagner company, that is an organization that weve seen in the battlefield, really, across the world over the past couple of years. for instance, i was in syria in 2016 and 2017. we already saw wagner operatives on the ground there. at that point, doing mostly base protection. from there, it really professionalized in a big way. they started getting involved in the oil trade. they started going into diamonds and gold in african countries, training forces there. it wasnt until th...

As you mentioned, u.s. officials, you know, they were caught off guard by the speed with which prigozhin moved against the russian military hear. but that being said, u.s. officials have long been monitoring these tensions taken with the wagner group and the russian ministry of defense. and they were monitoring in recent days that prigozhin was perhaps preparing to make some kind of a have ma. again, caught off guard with the so many unanswered questions that still remain. it is clear the u.s. i...

Nuclear capabilities so u.s. officials are always concerned about a situation on the battlefield that could escalate and lead president putin to feel like he needs to use that capability because it is something he has threatened before. this is a situation that has happened internally with this power struggle between prigozhin, the wagner forces, and the russian ministry of defense. you do have to consider that reality here. and when it comes to what u.s. officials are doing, theyre being incred...

Min ministry, shoigu, look, hes on the battlefield and then accusing shoigu the defense minister of essentially starving wagner of the weapons they needed to win in places like bakhmut. so it is a if you had t, a feud that has been going on for a long time. for all the backing, for being so close to vladimir putin, it looks like he went one step too far this time, jil. >> it certainly looks that way. we dont know what happens next for prigozhin. hes said to be on his way to belarus but the kreml...