pleased. people are talking about president putin as the man who may be getting revenge here because it sends a very strong message to anyone else in russia who may be planning some kind of armed insurrection or some coup. this is a message to wagner loyalists. don t cross the kremlin. don t even think about raising arms because it s going to end badly. going to end badly. there is of course all going to end badly. there is of course all sorts going to end badly. there is of course all sorts of going to end badly. there is of course all sorts of regulation l going to end badly. there is of - course all sorts of regulation about why this plane came down, and we just heard from a spokesperson for the pentagon who have been looking at it. have a listen to what he said. ., ., ,, ,, , ., said. our initial assessment is that it s likely yevgeny said. our initial assessment is that it s likely yevgeny prigozhin - said. our initial assessment is that it s likely yevgeny prigozhin was i
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from the statement he put out a little earlier. the president said prigozhin was a talented businessman , someone i have known he said since the 1990s . he sent his condolences to the families of everyone killed and promised to look at whatever the investigators turn up. on the wagner group s telegram channel, threats have been made, and there are some reports security has been increased in rostov on don, the city that briefly seized by the wagner group during its mutiny injune and also in the belgorod region. here is our russia editor steve rosenberg. in a field 60 miles from moscow, the wreckage of a plane, the private jet on which the russian authorities say yevgeny prigozhin was travelling. an investigation is under way into the cause of this crash. was ita bomb, a missile? was it sabotage? the authorities say all ten people on board were killed,
but it s mr prigozhin s fate that is centre of attention. for years the kremlin s mr fix it, his mercenary group had fought in ukraine. but two months ago, it mutinied. they took over the city of rostov and moved on towards moscow. it was an unprecedented challenge to the kremlin. so is yevgeny prigozhin s reported demise in the plane crash president putin s revenge? today, the kremlin leader broke his silence on the crash. he said he d known mr prigozhin a long time, since the early 1990s. he called him a man with a difficult fate who d made mistakes, but who was talented. but president putin has previously called the wagner mutiny a stab in the back and betrayal he cannot abide. if the crash was an act of revenge,