monster rival, the threads app now live and millions are signing up. we re going to begin this hour with that surprising announcement regarding the potential location of the man who led an uprising in russia last month. in a rare news conference this morning, belarusian leader alexander lukashenko said the head of the wagner group yevgeny prigozhin is in russia, not in belarus, despite saying last week he was in his country. nbc news cannot verify that claim. it is raising new questions, though, about the supposed deal that ended the attempted rebellion. joining us now from the presidential palace in minsk is nbc chief international correspondent keir simmons. you attended the news conference. you spoke with lukashenko, what did he say? reporter: yeah. yeah, as you can see, we re not at the presidential palace anymore. we were there. nbc news one of the few international news organizations invited to that conversation. and after an incredibly unpredictable almost two week
this morning. in just under an hour, court authorities will attempt to arraign donald trump s personal valet walt nauta for a third time. he is trump s co-defendant in the classified documents case. . and we re learning never before seen details of what led to the fbi s mar-a-lago search in the first place. look at how much is still redacted, but we ll break down what we are learning in just a moment. plus, the hottest day ever again. for the third day in a row, the earth recorded temperatures never seen before. we re pushing our ecosystems and our climate into a different place than it s been for the entirety of human civilization. we begin with that rare news conference from the president of belarus and the question, where in the world is wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin? last week the president of belarus said prigozhin, who you see there, had fled his country after the attempted armed rebellion in russia. after that rare press conference, alexander lukashenko said p
Happened. It seems dubious that the Russian Military, in other words, would want to take down a major passenger plane. Certainly with not the intent of taking it down. Again, we simply dont know who brought this down. Im also here with lieu dtenant colonel rick francona. Just in terms of kants, we have not seen separatists heretofor, they have brought down at least one transport plane, but they were not flying at 33,000 feet. Yeah, this would require, as we were talking about, a more sophisticated system. Talking about, you know, hitting it inadvertently, it would be very difficult for that to happen. Generally once youre locked onto the target, it goes to that target. And if it veers off that target and is no longer being guided, they selfdestruct. But when youre targeting a plane at that altitude, are you
clear on exactly what kind of a plane it is . No, its a return on your radar. Right. It will be a certain size, you can estimate the size of the aircraft. You may have other sensors
The Russian top military command has reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the training of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces, during which they practised conducting a massive nuclear strike in response to a strike by their opponent.
Mystified that a man who you say could have caused a civil war in russia is still in russia. translator: had when we meet with putin, we will discuss this topic. i m share this point of view with putin as well, in order to redeem himself, and to redeem the misdeeds of pnc wagner, i would send them to the hardest battle points, go and redeem yourself. reporter: now, clearly lukashenko is a man who likes rhetoric, but the detail of that that he prigozhin is not here seems we have seen his private plane fly back and forth from belarus and russia. if he is in russia, what is happening? i ll share this with you, lindsey, overnight, russia 24 state tv channel aired a report about prigozhin, talking about his criminal past, talking about his children as lobbying parties