lived as long as he did. if these reports are proven to be true, state services are now reporting the head of the wagner group was killed in a plane crash outside moscow. sandra. sandra: jennifer griffin, we ll get back to you with more details from the news, thank you very much. john. john: for more on this, let s bring in michael waltz, a member of the house armed services and foreign affairs committee. as jennifer said, thought his days might have been numbered but this was not too subtle. yeah, john, right. surprise, surprise. if you cross putin, don t fire your food taster, don t stay in a high rise hotel and apparently don t fly private in russia. but listen, make no mistake, this was intended to send a signal across the russian military, number one, and number two, we still can t count out
embraer, from moscow to st. petersburg. there are reports that jennifer griffin cited a short time ago that perhaps a russian surface to air missile took the plane down. trey yingst is monitoring the situation. jennifer remarked that nobody thought he was going to last very long and apparently he didn t. good afternoon. she s exactly right. the information we are getting in right now, according to russian state media, indicates that the leader of the wagner group has been killed in a plane crash just outside of moscow. a business jet was flying from the russian capital to russia s second largest city of st. petersburg when it was apparently, according to reports, shot down by russian air defense. the timing of this is significant. as you mentioned, less than two months ago, he led an attempted mutiny on the russian capital of moscow gathering thousands of his fighters in southern russia and attempting to march on the
kindly to those who threaten his power and that s part of the reason the questions are raised about whether or not this was ordered from the top but there will be a lot of investigation and speculation in the international community about what exactly took place. john raises an important point that when the russian air defense systems lock on to a target they have to receive confirmation, they are not just simply firing off trying to shoot things out of the sky. so the fact a business jet was clearly through russia s aviation agency on the flight logs was flying from the russian capital of moscow to st. petersburg indicates that someone somewhere knew that people were on board this jet, it was not an enemy plane, and that any sort of spin that you might hear initially from the kremlin should be taken with skepticism as we wait for any sort of statement from officials in moscow. sandra, john. sandra: trey yingst, thank you. we ll get back to you as we have more details. joining us by
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