loyal russians on edge. sanctions and lower prices also sent russia s vital oil and gas revenues plummeting in the first half of this year. but prices have been recovering over the summer. russia still earning a huge amount of dollars by exporting energy and other resources. and it is going to earn these dollars also in the future because you know, as we have learned we cannot easily push russia out of the oil market. reporter: there is another challenge facing russia s weapons industry. do you like playing basketball asked this recruitment video. for the helicopter plant. the parent company recently told putin they need to fill 23,000 jobs this year. wages already up 17%. this is a very tight labor force. a number of demographic reasons but also since the war a lot of
and euros by exporting energy and other resources. and it is going to earn these dollars also in the future. because, you know, as we actually learned, we cannot easily push russia out of the oil market. there are is, though, another challenge facing russia s weaponry. and the basketball for this recruitment video for the helicopter plant. the parent company recently told putin they need to fill 23,000 jobs this year, wages are already up 17%. we see very tight labor force, for a number of demographic reasons but also to do with the war. some people have left the country. some people have been mobilized. reporter: sanctions have russia s supplies for my components of weapons. experts are raising costs even further yet the kremlin has found a with to justify this, a war with the west.
plunging from the sky with a missing wing and then crashing. [gasps] reporter: wagner social media channels say it is yevgeneny prigozhin n s privatet which was s shot dowown. russian aviation authorities simply say the plane crashed north of moscocow, killing all n peoplele on board, i including prigozhin, and that the cause is being investigated. but president biden said he doesn t know for sure what happened, but he is not surprised. there is not much that happens in russia that putin is not behind. reporter: prigozhin was last seen in this recruitment video, standing in an arid desert, rifle in hand, at an undisclosed location in africa. itit i is the firstst vidideo ss aborted mutiny, which he called off at the 11th hour, prompting raised eyebrows that he did not challenged vladimir putin, but
willingness to share information. now bill burns earlier this year, the cia rolled out a recruitment video that they actually shared in the region, in russia, trying to encourage russians and not just russians in the intelligence space, but also russians who work for businesses or russians who work in the tech space to share information with the cia. they rolled out some pretty clear details, sharing with them how to actually do that. so it s clear that the cia has seen this as an opportunity to recruit folks, to share information with them for a while now. and bill burns was clear, as you said, in calling this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. very interesting stuff there. thank you so much over at the state department. i want to bring in the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman jim himes. thanks for joining us. i want to go back to what you heard ukraine s president tell erin burnett moments ago, that the war will not end unless ukraine retakes crimea.