and the fissures within the power establishment that putin himself leads. reports from russia tonight that the leader of the matter to mercenary group yevgeny prigozhin is dead. his private plane en route from moscow to st. petersburg was shot down killing all passengers and crew. we know he was on the passenger list but was the onboard? we will bring you all the reaction. good evening. ten people have been killed in a privatejet that was flying from moscow to st petersburg this afternoon with official reports from moscow telling us that wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin was on the manifest. the flight was carrying seven passengers and three crew. it is said to have crashed in the tver region, north west of moscow. there are multiple videos on social media that appear to show this jet crashing. tracking data on flightradar21i does not show where the plane departed from. it appears near moscow, where it climbed to an altitude of nearly 29,000 feet before the data shows it suddenl
in the tver region. in st petersburg, a public memorial has been set up outside the wagner headquarters to pay tribute to mr prigozhin as well as his right hand man dimitry utkin. mr prigozhin rose from obscurity to a position of significant power in russia commanding thousands of troops financed and supported by some of the country s most powerful politicians. our analysis editor ros atkins has been taking a look at his rise and fall. well, we know that prigozhin took an unorthodox route to a powerful position in russia. in 1981, he was sent to prison for robbery and theft, and when released in 1990, he became a hotdog salesman in st petersburg. but by 1997, he was running a top restaurant and winning lucrative catering contracts. those brought connections to the top. prigozhin even served food to world leaders and to putin himself. and prigozhin s role was becoming about much more than food. in 2014, russia annexed crimea and launched an insurgency in eastern ukra
whole wagner rebellion, the mutiny has been a big challenge to vladimir putin s authority. what we saw this morning i think was an attempt to change the optics in a way, to reframe what happened as a victory, a victory for vladimir putin. as the kremlin said, he was the one who averted major bloodshed. and a victory for russia. that is what came across in what he was saying when he spoke to the troops and the police. he congratulated for defending the constitutional order, silently basically stopped a civil war. there was a minute s silence for the russian air force war. there was a minute s silence for the russian airforce pilots war. there was a minute s silence for the russian air force pilots who had been killed in the mutiny. then at the national anthem played. so a lot of pomp. i think that s because at the kremlin was to show the russian people that, actually, as bad as it was to have a military uprising going on in the country, that they came through this and are stro
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