a number of years. two months ago to the day, yevgeny prigozhin pleads a failed coup. today a plane not just that russian state media says he was on the passenger list but a plane that cnn s own tracking of the tail number and registration numbers on the jets indicates this was a jet that belonged to him and he traveled on frequently. what do you believe happened here? yeah, jim, i think that a lot of russia watches like me after the mutiny that prigozhin led a couple months ago. we re asking, it s not really a question of if but when and how and i think the last two questions have been answered. it is interesting that it took putin two months to do this. i don t really think there s any doubt the russian government was somehow involved in this, directly involved. it did take two months and that s going to be an interesting question going forward. i think it might have something to do with concerns on the kremlin side by putin that prigozhin had a certain level of
prigozhin was on that plane. talk us through any situation like this, how do you go about verifying this information? what are some of the pitfalls you have to look for? you have to think pitfalls you have to look for? ml, have to think about what is actually hard evidence and what is hearsay, for example, we know that a plane crashed. we can see the data, we can see the flight tracking, the gps data, the videos on the ground where you can see part of the tail number of the plane in the wreckage. it s clear this plane crashed in this location. that s obvious. as to who is on the plane, we ve got to trust the aviation authority about the passenger list they listed in the work of russian journalists on the ground where trying to reach prigozhin and the people in his inner circle. by all appearances, prigozhin and the people in his inner circle. by allappearances, no one can get a hold of prigozhin right now, some russianjournalists have reported that people close to him or trying to get
prigozhin had a long standing feud with the kremlin and the general would have ample motive for events without the media channels linked to wagner suggest that russian air defence missiles brought the plane down. these are the pictures from the ground which show the wreckage on fire. the private plane is the one he often travels in. its tail number is extremely familiar to russian authorities as indeed it is to the international media who followed it recently to belarus with a flight radar tonight is reporting that there was another plane, perhaps a decoy plane that later landed in moscow. we have to be careful. suffice it to say it is a story shrouded in the usual kremlin intrigue. let us take a step back and consider whether started. the coup injune, prigozhin largely out of sight since then. he released a video earlier in the week in which he claimed to be in africa where his
fire that had crashed. there is also a plane that he s known to use, it has a tail number, and that s apparently been seen. flight tracking web sites indicate the flight did, in fact, end where the state media says it ended. and that is in tver. near kuzhenkino. i don t know if you know that region. but they re saying eight of the bodies have been recovered, general, and do you know, general, or ambassador, exactly where that is? does it make sense to you knowing how things operate within russia that the bodies would have been found already, and how quickly might we hear more? i defer to the ambassador. that s not very far from moscow. it s not surprising that they