to the impact of his tourette s. we ll be learning a bit more about it. i want to start by introducing my panel for the next hour. tonight, i mjoined by the broadcaster and political reporter at politics home, nadine batchelor hunt, and bryan lanza, who is a former director of communications on presisent trump s transitions team and a partner at the global on president trump s transitions team and a partner at the global strategy firm mercury. hello. a proper hello in a moment, but i want to bring details out of that ukrainian city of kramatorsk, that city centre, you can see the pictures, which has been hit by a russian missile attack. we know that potentially people are trapped under the rubble as they are attempting to be rescued. we know there are injuries and we know there are fatalities there. this is effectively city centre, so an area with restaurants, and the attack happened about 7:30pm in the evening, so it would have been busy at the time. the latest numbers are t
afternoon, i m yasmin vossoughian, on a very busy saturday afternoon. coming on the air today following an ongoing military conflict inside russia. we are now learning moments ago, you give guinea prigozhin, the leader of the wagner mercenary group is standing down. , this after escalation late yesterday as the group started making its way towards moscow, threatening vladimir putin s grip on power. the wagner group, until recently, was fighting alongside russian forces in ukraine, but yesterday accusing the kremlin of killing thousands of its soldiers based on quote unquote, false pretenses, prigozhin and his troops have taken control of the city home to the russian military headquarters for the ukraine war, we are unsure where the control stands now. in a televised address this morning, vladimir putin accused the wagner mercenaries of quote unquote treason, and vowing to punish anyone involved in a, quote, armed rebellion. we this is a criminal adventurous to campaign. , i
the co founder of the wagner group backin the co founder of the wagner group back in 2014. just the co-founder of the wagner group back in 2014- back in 2014. just to reiterate some ofthe back in 2014. just to reiterate some of the information, back in 2014. just to reiterate some of the information, that back in 2014. just to reiterate some of the information, that broke - back in 2014. just to reiterate some of the information, that broke in . of the information, that broke in the last few minutes that s been verified by the bbc, comments made by to the first time on the plane crash that appears to have killed prigozhin and he said prigozhin was a talented person and expressed his condolences to the families of everyone killed. as we been hearing over the past few minutes and hours, beenin over the past few minutes and hours, been in the speculation on social media about the crash and robinson from bbc verifies been sifting through many of posts. prigozhin, the wagner group merc
crashed. prigozhin and the co founder dmitry utkin were both on this list of passengers on the plane. that did not stop speculation on social media that he might have been on another plane of the time. what we know about the crash? radar tracking service shows that the plane linked to prigozhin kicked off somewhere yesterday afternoon was flying toward st. petersburg and then disappeared over the region 300 km northwest of moscow and the data also shows around this, there was a sudden drop of altitude. this is collaborated by video from eyewitnesses that we looked at earlier and you can see the plane falling from the sky quite rapidly and in the plane crashed not far from the village. the satellite image shows the aftermath and you can see bits of wreckage intends as
became increasingly critical of russia s military leadership and eventually launched a mutiny in june. his forces seized the major russian city and even marched on moscow before abandoning their insurrection. prigozhin had a lot of powerful enemies here in moscow, not just in the military but also in the kremlin. when his wagner group mercenary is marched on the capitol injune, thousand direct challenge to president putin. that is why yesterday s news about the plane crash surprised almost nobody here in russia. , ., , crash surprised almost nobody here in russia. , . , crash surprised almost nobody here in russia. , ., in russia. this wasn t really a shock, bearing in russia. this wasn t really a shock, bearing in in russia. this wasn t really a shock, bearing in mind - in russia. this wasn t really a shock, bearing in mind the i in russia. this wasn t really a - shock, bearing in mind the whole situation. i almost expected something like this to happen. alexander said it is