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That. >> it is hard to hear, but he says he's not surprised if this is true. let's bring in courtney kube? what's your reaction from inside the pentagon? >> that's a pretty common sentiment that we've been hearing from american officials that if, in fact, this is true, if in fact, prigozhin is dead, that if putin has a role in it they wouldn't be surprised that two months ago today that the wagner group start its march through russia at the time with the belief that they were trying to take over country and take it over from vladimir putin and they turned it around and there's been a widesprea...

Miss they will were to take out a plane like this the u.s. would very likely or a u.s. ally would very likely be able to see some sort of a heat signature. the plane was flying pretty high, about 26,000 feet is what we're hearing according to flight tracker. so that would require a relatively good sized missile that would be able to see a heat signature. so there should be some confirmation that something was fired at that plane at some point. we don't have that yet. believe me, we are asking, but at this point we don't have an indication from u.s. officials that they've seen that. u.s. offici...

Plane. but you cannot ignore precedent. there have been a lot of reports of untimely deaths for those who have crossed vladimir putin. so what does this mean for vladimir putin's grip on power in russia? and what does it mean for his war it ukraine where prigozhin's wagner group had been largely responsible for russia's territorial gains? joining us now, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. he has covered yevgeny prigozhin extensively. there was word from the wagner group there was a second plane and prigozhin might have been on that plane. what do we know about that? >> report...

This point, wolf, when this counteroffensive is moving relatively slowly, the ukrainians do believe they can have quite some effect. at the same time the u.s. is saying that they are needed to be sent to ukraine right now because of the low supplies of the more standard artillery munitions, wolf. >> alex marquardt, thank you very much. as russia's war against ukraine is a major focus, of course, of the upcoming nato summit we're learning more about putin's response to the mutiny by the wagner mercenary fighters, the kremlin revealing that putin recently actually met with the wagner chief. cn...

Of june, then, you know, yevgeny prigozhin, you can see there, the leader of wagner agreed to, i think, go into exile in belarus and take some of his wagner soldiers with him. i was recently in belarus and the leader of that country, alexander lukashenko told me that, in fact, prigozhin had never arrived and was in russia and now we learn that five days after the uprising on june the 29th, prigozhin had a face-to-face meeting with putin along with 30 or so commanders, many of them wagner, it's not clear, to discuss their role on the battlefield and what their performance had been and how they ...