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more payback from vladimir putin. reportedly carrying yevgeny prigozhin crashed this week. video from a russian state media outlet appears to show the plane descending against a bright blue sky and a zoom in reveals it's missing a wing. analysis by cnn now suggests that the plane experienced at least one catastrophic inflight incident not visible on the video. experts suspect an on board explosion. intelligence officials have told cnn they believe it was deliberate. a passenger manifest released by the civil aviation agency listed prigozhin and wagner's top commander among seven passengers and three crew members said to be killed. it came two months to the day
was it yet more payback from vladimir putin? a p plane reportedly carrying yevgeny prigozhin crashed this week. video from a russian state media outlet appears to show the plane descending against a bright blue sky and a zoom in reveals it's missing a wing. analysis by cnn now suggests that the plane experienced at least one catastrophic inflight incident not visible on the video. experts suspect an on board explosion. intelligence officials have told cnn they believe it was deliberate. a passenger manifest released by the civil aviation agency listed prigozhin and wagner's top commander among seven passengers
because of the law. this is payback for four years of our presidency that broke your brain. now you have to go put him away his lawyers away. >> did you read the indictments? >> yes. >> a d&c surrogate flipping the script on republicans. yes.
nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: the u.s. believes russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin was likely on this plane when it suspiciously crashed outside moscow on wednesday and that he is dead. british officials calling it very likely. what exactly brought down the plane is still a mystery. two u.s. officials said intelligence gathered so far points to sabotage with one official saying a leading theory is that an explosive was placed on board, although they can't say with certainty. u.s. officials are convinced this was no accident but payback for prigozhin's mutiny two months ago when he dared to lead a column of mercenaries toward moscow and challenged russian president putin's grip on power. while many suspect he ordered the hit, putin said russian investigators still need time to learn all the facts. he offered his sincere
on board, although they can't say with certainty. u.s. officials are convinced this was no accident. payback for prigozhin's mutiny two months ago when he dared to lead a column of mercenaries toward moscow and challenge russian president putin's grip on power. while many suspect he ordered the hit, putin said russian investigators still need time to learn all the facts. he offered his sincere condolences and described prigozhin as a talented businessman but who also made serious mistakes in his life. the pentagon says there's no indication the jet was hit by a surface-to-air missile, that the heat signature of a launch wasn't detected. russian aviation officials say they have recovered the remains of the ten people on board, some so disfigured, identification is difficult. >> whatever happened at 28,000 feet was catastrophic in
this was no accident, but payback for prigozhin's mutiny two months ago when he dard to dared to lead a column of mercenaries toward moscow. while many suspect he ordered the hit, putin said russian investigators still need time to learn all the facts. he offered his sincere condolences and described prigozhin as a talented businessman, but who also made serious mistakes in his life. the pentagon says there's no indication the jet was hit by a surface-to-air missile, that the heat signature of a launch wasn't detected. russian aviation official says they have recovered the remains of ten people on board, some so disfigured, identification is different. >> whatever happened at 28,000 feet was catastrophic in nature and it basically knocked the airplane out of the sky. >> reporter: this morning, new images were posted on russian social media showing the wing that was ripped from the plane
ultimate — in my experience, putin is the ultimate apostle of payback. | ultimate apostle of payback. i know you are not at liberty to disclose intelligence briefings you get on the house intelligence committee but was very sense in us intelligence that prigozhin was indeed not safe and essentially you are waiting for the other shoe to drop? i waiting for the other shoe to dro - ? ~ :, , drop? i think that feeling is laruel drop? i think that feeling is largely probably _ drop? i think that feeling is largely probably yes. i drop? i think that feeling is largely probably yes. of i largely probably yes. of course, we don't have any evidence to document this at this time. i think over the course of the months and weeks to come, i think we will find this out. i have to say i don't think the story necessarily ends here for that mr prigozhin and mr utkin were the number one and two of wagner but there are many leaders and wagner. many in the middle east and africa. we don't know how they
encompasses the removal of those who run afoul of putin. in other words, usually people trip and fall out of windows, and a plane crash seems like an assassination. >> yeah, it's pretty spectacular. putin has to send a message to hold on to power. he was weaken add couple months ago by this wagner rebellion. when you had the armed troops marching within 120 miles of moscow and the fact that putin was not able to stop wagner by force, that made him look all of a sudden vulnerable. the fact that prigozhin got away with this act of insurrection and managed to make it to belarus furthered the image that putin was somehow weak. and now i think this is his spectacular payback to show, no, this is a guy you can't mess around with. this is how he keeps power in this gangster state that he has constructed in russia. >> maybe the very fact that it took a long time as what farther of the signal that putin was sending, eventually it will come around. >> this is what the cia director
hit the ground. you can see it plummeting to earth, ten people on board, no survivors. sara? the biden administration noting putin's long history of payback has repeatedly and publically warned that prigozhin could be killed at any moment by the kremlin. so this turn of events didn't seem to come as a shock to the president when he heard the news. >> i don't know for a fact what happened, but i am not surprised. >> do you believe putin is behind this, sir? >> there's not much that happens in russia that putin does not know. but i don't know enough to answer. >> i'm joined by political author and scientist, ian bremmer. thank you for coming on to talk about this. president biden said the quiet part outside saying look, the intimation that most people think is putin had something to do with this. what are your thought oswhat has happened here?