Think could have potentially been a factor if and a big if obviously there was this was a planned attack because prigozhin was on that plane and because someone wanted him gone? reporter: i mean, if this was indeed an assassination, i think it s really important that it wasn t just prigozhin who was killed. there were others on that plane. dimitri utkin office that plane, one of wagner s top operatives. so if this was a targeted assassination, then it s clear that the kremlin is really trying to just draw a line under this whole thing altogether because it s important to note that prigozhin has quite a lot of support in russia. and particularly from these hard-liners who do not feel that the ministry of defense has been executing a good job in ukraine, who do not feel that they have been harsh enough in their tactics. who accuse them of being corrupt and incompetent and ineffective. and that chorus of voices has
That dimitri utkin was on board. that s what we ve got from russia s civil invasion. this is essentially from the same list or a passenger manifest that was made public earlier today. the latest i have from russia was. from russia s emergency services is that they have recovered ten bodies from the crash site and the search operation is complete. the telegram channels linked to wagner, they have confirmed, or they are saying that both yevgeny prigozhin and dimitri utkin are dead, as a result of
Revenge is a dish best served cold. the russian authorities have confirmed prigozhin and the neo nazi founder of wagner, dimitri utkin, were on board the private jet that crashed in the tver region north of moscow. mark is in kviv for us. mark, how clear evidence is there that yevgeny prigozhin is dead? numerous official russian sources, official tv, the federal aviation authority are all saying it. one smaller russian media outlet is claiming his body had been identified in the wreckage, but whether or not that is true, the telegram channels of his followers have been talking about his death, so the assumption is pretty much universal that he has died. as you mention, dimitri utkin, the person who originally had wagner callsign on radio and in a sense was the founder of the organisation, was also on the plane, rumoured to have
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