took off from moscow, supposed to fly to st. petersburg but suddenly the transponder disappeared off the console. u.s. officials believe it was a surface to air missile fired inside russia that took it down. putin sending condolences to prigozhin s family saying i knew prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 1990s. he was a man with a complex destiny and made serious mistakes in life. one was to challenge putin and appears he may have paid with his life. the only thing i m sad about today, john, his death was not more slow and painful. that s the kind of death the wagner forces have inflicted on civilians in the middle east and syria, where they are responsible for helping russia slaughter tens of thousands of civilians. not military, not combatants, but civilians and they have the same track record in africa,