jail with a cbs news special report as soon as it happens. tonight, the pentagon, for the first time, saying it believes russian warlord yevgeny prigozhin is dead. u.s. intelligence indicates the plan that the mercenary was on was brought down by an explosion on board butte cbs s debora patta reports from southern ukraine. reporter: this is what residents and a russian village north of moscow saw and heard. ]gasps] reporter: the plane was flying, says anastasia bukharova, and then boom, it exploded. reached an altitude of 2828,000 feet bebefore spiralino the ground with a missing wing and bursting into flames in a nearby field. a u.s. official has told cbs news the most likely explanation is an explosion on board the jet, possibly caused by a bomb. all ten bodies have been recovered and taken for identification. the man who once said the only
front-runner was a no-show. it didn t matter to me last night, in the end, that he wasn t there appear to be too won attention. do you want a super pac puppet or do you want a patriot who speaks the truth? reporter: and he also drew attacks. now is not the time for on-the-job training. we don t need to bring in a rookie i ve had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like chatgpt. reporter: but the differences on the big issues were also front and center. on ukraine, a stark divide over whether the u.s. should continue to support that embattled nation, as it fends off a russian invasion, and whether allies should do more. i will have europe pull their weight. right now, they are not doing it. [boos] ukraine is not a priority for the united states of america. you have no foreign policy experience, and it shows. it shows. anybody that things that we can t solve the problems here in the united states and be the leader of the free world, that s a pretty small view