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It's long, high-casualty producing and very, very difficult. >> reporter: and tonight, news of a bitter blow for the ukrainian air force -- three pilots killed in a training exercise, worsening the shortage of skilled pilots needed for dozens of american-made f-16 fighter jets promised to ukraine. and in russia, president putin ordering wagner mercenary fighters to swear allegiance to the russian state after that private jet belonging to wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin disintegrated midair. rachel? >> rachel: tom, thank you. back here at home, reflection and emotion in the nation's capital. a...

Welcome to cnn "prime time." by this "time" the 45th president of the united states will likely have surrendered and he is expected to turn himself tomorrow evening after traveling from his new jersey golf course in the afternoon. three key lawyers sidney powell, jenna ellis and rudy giuliani all surrendered today and are released on bond. giuliani completing yet another leg in his journey from america's mayor to criminal defendant. now, all of this comes as a federal judge has rejected a last-minute legal maneuver by mark meadows and jeffrey clark who were trying to avoid arrest if they faile...

Hours ago in the tver region. the russian authorities published a list of some of the ten passengers onboard. there were three crew, seven passengers. and they include the boss of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, and some of his top lieutenants, including dmitry utkin, who founded the mercenary group as well as one of his top lieutenants, also sanctioned by the u.s. government by the treasury department. now, the russian officials say that they have launched a criminal investigation into this crash trying to determine the cause of it. meantime, we are seeing that some of the tele...

Aircraft. that could either have been during the fall or at the point of impact, whatever caused it to fall. >> and, i mean, obviously, prigozhin must have known that he was a target for assassination after that mutiny attempt. i mean, is there anything he could have done to protect his plane? people joke about having a food taster. what can you do when you know that you are flying around and you're a target? >> well, when anyone that's critical to wagner travels, it's not uncommon to have a misleading list of people on the airplane so they have two airplanes. they had two legacy aircraft in t...

Putin foe and wagner group head yevgeny prigozhin is believed to be dead now after a plane crash in russia today. russia's aviation agency confirming prigozhin was onboard a plane carrying him and nine other passengers. that crash comes just two months after prigozhin launched a failed mutiny against russia's military leadership. for more on this i want to bring in senior cnn international correspondent and russia expert ivan watson and cnn safety analyst and former faa inspector david susie. ivan, there has been so much going on today. what is russia agsaying now abo prigozhin and this crash?...