on bbc news. thank you forjoining us. the russian federal agency for transference as the wagner mercenary group says he was on board an aircraft that has crashed in the region in russia. the russian emergency ministry says the aircraft came down near the village. the ministry said thejet came down near the village. the ministry said the jet was flying from moscow to st. petersburg, and that ten people, including three crew members, or on board. the statement says everybody who was on board was killed. joining us joining us now on the line is bbc monitoring russia editor, vitaliy shevchenko. so so much has been happening since the news broke, tells with the latest
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there were nine other people on board that jet, which was at a cruise altitude of 28,000 feet before it disappeared from radar. video from the ground showing the jet s debris burning. so far no word on what caused the plane, which was traveling from moscow to st. petersburg to go down. but u.s. intelligence is now most likely trying to determine if there was an explosion inside of the plane or if there was a flash on the ground, which could suggest that it was hit by a missile. so far putin is not commenting on the crash. we have a lot to get to tonight. i want to start with fred pleitgen. fred, what more are you learning about the crash that is said to have killed this leader of the wagner group? reporter: hi there, brianna. the russians are saying the investigators that are on the scene there are still working and trying to gather evidence. they say they re looking at multiple scenarios as to what might ve happened including mechanical error. and tampering with the aircraft as well
country which the army has turned to his. well where that they are used in the same thing. from luhansk and donetsk. let s talk about. we saw him make for a five minute speech on saturday down in the south he was in control and how people who paid such and such a. it hasn t gone his way. we don t know where he is at the moment. some suggest that he has been flown out of moscow to st. petersburg where he comes from initially. perhaps. not prep somewhere else. he is weakened. the vulnerability has been demonstrated but at the same time, i think everybody in russia looked over the business so that whoever toppled him could not guarantee their own safety. so in a system where he is the arbiter between some fairly vicious competing factions, this might strengthen his security in some ways. because he is seen as the indispensable grand tour of the safety of whoever might want to replace. i m reading the paper that this morning in the times i
i should say. we don t know the answer but it took place inside the airport. not on board a plane or outside, but inside the airport. which is intriguing, nonetheless. russia s busiest airport, about a year ago, one of the main train lines that runs from moscow to st. petersburg, was blown off the tracks. and when you hear people like vladimir putin talk about challenging the chechen separatists and the rebels who launched many attacks upon the russian people over the years, this will be not only heavily investigated from the chechen standpoint, but, also, since we do not have the source of whatever caused this, you know, was it some sort of other interference from the outside? the airport handles primarily international flights, but, we understand there are domestic flights as well and at the moment, we don t have a lot of answers, all we have is carnage inside though airport terminal. martha: and the witness, we heard from one witness, who owns a cafe done the hall from the area and