here on bbc news. live from london. this is bbc news reports from russia the leader of the wagner mercenary group yevgeny prigozhin is killed in a plane crash two months after his forces launched a mutiny against the russian military. the bbc can confirm that the wagner boss was listed as a passenger on a private plane which crashed north of moscow en route to saint petersburg. emergency services say all 10 people on board were killed. this radar recording shows the plane travelling north west before disappearing from radar. hello, i m nancy kacungira, welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. a stories from around the world. big breaking storyt the russian federal agency
programme. what is your reaction to the news we are hearing that potentially prigozhin might have been on that plane which crashed? i think it s good news. i don t think you will think it s good news. i don t think you will find too many people who would you will find too many people who would you you will find too many people who would you be upset if prigozhin is gone would you be upset if prigozhin is gone he would you be upset if prigozhin is gone. he was killed, whether he was in the gone. he was killed, whether he was in the second plane, i would not be surprised in the second plane, i would not be surprised if in the second plane, i would not be surprised if he was using the second plane surprised if he was using the second plane but surprised if he was using the second plane. but prigozhin was a major operative plane. but prigozhin was a major operative for the russian government. so he was involved in major government. so he was involved in major missions,
head of wagner. prigozhin is the funder and the other is the guy who headsit funder and the other is the guy who heads it up, he is the president. so we kind of separate but you know you know and what you think you know and what you know you don t know, all of that. g what you know you don t know, all of that. ., ., ~ ., ~ ., that. a lot of knowing. what you know ou that. a lot of knowing. what you know you know that. a lot of knowing. what you know you know and that. a lot of knowing. what you know you know and what - that. a lot of knowing. what you know you know and what you - that. a lot of knowing. what you l know you know and what you don t know. very important in a situation like this. if we talk about what we are seeing on social media, you can go on there and find practically anything about this. have you seen anything about this. have you seen anything particularly egregious or that you know is wrong because my car there are lines that we should be very careful this poi
and the wagner says the second jet turned around and is flying back to moscow. we also know that none of the social media accounts believed to be linked to prigozhin have so far made any claims or comments as to whether he is dead or alive. so we don t yet know. what we do know is that prigozhin was a hugely influentialfigure in russia. let’s influentialfigure in russia. let s take a moment influentialfigure in russia. let s take a moment to influentialfigure in russia. let s take a moment to reflect - influentialfigure in russia. let s take a moment to reflect on - influential figure in russia. let s take a moment to reflect on who this man is, was. prigozhin was a very private person for many years. he was the man who the kremlin would go to if they needed something done on the sly, if you like, on the quiet, without too much fuss. whether it was organising internet troll farms, putting out disinformation on social media or whether it was fighting abroad, for example, in syria.
he wasn t critical publicly of the president, of vladimir putin. and some people thought for a long time that his criticism of the military leadership was supported, to an extent, privately, by vladimir putin. and that criticising, by criticising senior military officials, well, president putin quite liked that. i thought that was a possibility, until those dramatic events of two months ago exactly when mr prigozhin launched what he called the march ofjustice and called the march ofjustice and called on his troops to march within, to read the country of the current military leadership, and that s when we side the wagner troops march into the city of rostov in southern russia and quite easily take over the city, certainly take over the key military installations