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Sunday Night in America With Trey Gowdy

really kill civilians and get away with it. what do we see for the wagner group in syria, they were responsible for the death of at least ten of thousands of civilians not enemy combatants but actually civilians and putin thinks is able to say this is a private army this is not the russian military which no one bought. in fact i would remind her audience, the only time the americans have had interaction with wagner group is when trauma gave an order in 2018 and we killed anywhere from 200, 300 of the mercenaries when they crossed us in syria. trey: what do you think it means for the war in ukraine because russia as you laid out using the wagner group in ukraine for certain purposes at least they were until there was a breakup between prigozhin and putin, doesn't mean anything for the war in ukraine that the wagon group is upset for putin for killing their leader?

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CNN This Morning

his wagner mercenaries at the behest of the kremlin were active in ukraine, the middle east and several african states, where human rights group accuse them of horrific abuses but prigozhin was much more than just putin's chef turned putin's warlord. he was putin's troll as well. setting up this notorious troll factory in st. petersburg, the internet research agency where internet provocateurs were paid by prigozhin to distort the u.s. political debate around 2016 presidential elections. prigozhin was sanctioned by the u.s. but denied any involvement in election meddling. he denied links with wagner too. but with russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine in 2022, that mask was discarded. after his aborted uprising in june he and his wagner forces were officially exiled to

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CNN This Morning

brings to the end in dramatic fashion a very controversial russian figure. he carved out a pivotal role in russia's ukrainian war. often visiting his wagner mercenaries near the front lines near bakhmut where he sent them to fight, what became a very personal battle. not just against ukrainian forces. but with russia's own military leadership whom he regularly condemned as incompetent as thousands of his hired fighters were killed. here, prigozhin points at a pile of dead bodies next to him and launched into a tirade. those who didn't give us ammunition will go to hell and eat their intest continues he shouts. then he named russia's defense

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Russia's Wagner mercenaries face uncertainty after the presumed death of their leader in plane crash

The plane crash has raised questions about the future of Prigozhin’s private army.

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The Katie Phang Show

cost his entirely too high to have a private mercenary course that he cannot have control over running russia and ukraine. >> will we ever get to the bottom of this? if you're going to trust russian officials to be able to advise what happens, putin is saying that this is an accident, but a lot of accidents seem to happen to people that are opposed to vladimir putin. do you think we're ever going to find out the truth behind how proportions plane went down? >> i think we'll find hansen the truth. i think if we're going to find out the truth it'll probably be from western intelligence sources. the russian state has been looking at this as an accident. you have mentions of error vessels, or bomb being put on the plane, but officials are saying we have nothing to do with us. i think that's about as close as we're going to get to the truth. they admitted the plane went, down and prigozhin was not. and that's good enough for them. >> on friday, you want to talk about trying to solidify and protect your six, putin decree that any mercenaries that operate within russia's borders have to swear allegiance to the kremlin. this is not so subtle nod to

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The Katie Phang Show

out the mercenary leader. russian president, vladimir putin, offered his, quote, sincere condolences after the crash. saying the mercenary led a complicated life and, quote, made some serious mistakes. the kremlin, on friday, denied having anything to do with that, but president biden responded to the incident saying, quote, there's not much that happens in russia that putin is not behind. joining me now is russian and ukrainian history expert, kimberly saint julian-varnon. kimberly, is nice to have you on the show. we've got the breaking news, just within the hour before you appeared on the show. confirming that prigozhin's death by way of genetic testing. what is your initial reaction to this breaking news? >> i guess my initial reaction is that it's not that breaking a. and i figured it was yevgeny prigozhin. there have been interviews that independent journalism group out of russia did, they talk to mercenaries warren wagner, or mercenaries that used to be in

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BBC News

for vladimir putin to reassert his authority following wagner's failed mutiny back injune, but again that is speculation, completely unconfirmed. and as i say, the russian investigations committee is hardly an independent investigative agency to look into it. and we've heard from president putin in the last couple of days about him, asking mercenaries to pledge their allegiance to russia. indeed, that is a decree that was issued with immediate effect on friday, and it can be seen as a way to strengthen government control over the proliferating number of private military companies involved in the so—called special military operation against ukraine,

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BBC News

mutiny back injune, but again that is speculation, completely unconfirmed. and as i say, the russian investigations committee is hardly an independent investigative agency to look into it. ﬁnd hardly an independent investigative agency to look into it.— agency to look into it. and we've heard from _ agency to look into it. and we've heard from president _ agency to look into it. and we've heard from president putin - agency to look into it. and we've heard from president putin in . agency to look into it. and we've | heard from president putin in the last couple of days about him, asking mercenaries to pledge their allegiance to russia.— allegiance to russia. indeed, that is a decree _ allegiance to russia. indeed, that is a decree that _ allegiance to russia. indeed, that is a decree that was _ allegiance to russia. indeed, that is a decree that was issued - allegiance to russia. indeed, that is a decree that was issued with i is a decree that was issued with immediate effect on friday, and it can be seen as a way to strengthen government control over the proliferating number of private military companies involved in the so—called special military operation against ukraine, but it remains to be seen whether the move will be

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CNN Newsroom Live

he came to the u.s. to push for fighter jets and advanced air defense systems. and here's part of what he said. >> our need is to defend our cities against this threat. unfortunately, russians are taking not only the military bases, military objects, but also civilian infrastructure. >> former british prime minister boris johnson is pointing a finger at the russian president over the plane crash involving the reader of wagner mercenaries. johnson wrote an op-ed on saturday four days after that plane believed to carry yevgeny prigozhin went down. russia has not officially confirmed his death, but johnson wrote, as the detonation suck the air out of the aircraft's cabin, i would wager that the doomed thought of prigozhin's skull was putin. the article added, quote, how could it be otherwise. it was mad in retrospect for prigozhin to have been believed that putin would let him live. earlier this week, both british

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CNN Newsroom Live

prigozhin? >> reporter: well, kim, first of all, you know, yef gu againny prigozhin didn't even have a public profile by the full-scale invasion of ukraine. his usefulness was that he wasn't a public figure and through his businesses, he was able to provide denial services to the russian government, whether it be, you know, providing mercenaries to fight in syria, activities in ukraine's donbas region, as well as the interference in u.s. elections in 2016 through the notorious network of troll farms that he operated. it was only after the full-scale invasion, and wagner's ability to deliver some kinds of battlefield succession, particularly in the fighting against bakhmut in eastern ukraine, that prigozhin actually

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