live from london, this is bbc news. russian president vladimir putin pays tribute to the wagner group leader prigozhin at talented man might make mr prigozhin who made it report into a georgia jail and their protests in south korea afterjapan begins releasing treated radioactive water from the fukushima begins releasing treated radioactive waterfrom the fukushima nuclear power plant into the pacific ocean. welcome to the daily global bringing you the top stories from around the world. we start and russia were vladimir putin has broken his silence of the plane crash presumed
he said he had known mr prigozhin a long time, since the early 1990s. he called him a man with a difficult fate who had made mistakes, but who was talented. but president putin has previously called the wagner mutiny a stab in the back, and betrayal he cannot abide. if the crash was an act of revenge, then what is the message? this is a clear message to elites you must be loyal or you must express double loyalty, even. this is a message to ordinary people look, you can survive this period but you must be quiet. there is no need in supporting somebody else. only putin is your president, your autocrat, your person to admire. in other words, don t cross the kremlin. the world of russian politics, though, is a murky one.
some here suspect a hoax. there is talk of a second wagner plane that landed safely. but outside wagner offices, in st petersburg, there is now a shrine. people here are in mourning for a mercenary chief they believe has been killed. steve rosenberg, bbc news. president zelensky said ukraine had nothing to do with the crash and this was the reaction from the deputy minister of defence. speaking exclusively to the bbc. it will make this person is criminal number one to us with all of his bad things he is done in ukraine. find to us with all of his bad things he is done in ukraine. to us with all of his bad things he is done in ukraine. and his team, and his grow). is done in ukraine. and his team, and his group, his is done in ukraine. and his team, and his group, his force is done in ukraine. and his team, and his group, his force was - is done in ukraine. and his team, | and his group, his force was brutal in this war. they never save the lives of the people at the same time,
in other words, don t cross the kremlin. the world of russian politics, though, is a murky one. some here suspect a hoax. there is talk of a second wagner plane that landed safely. but outside wagner offices, in st petersburg, there is now a shrine. people here are in mourning for a mercenary chief they believe has been killed. steve rosenberg, bbc news. if prigozhin is indeed dead, he willjoin a long list of vladimir putin s enemies who met their deaths in mysterious circumstances. like these two the former politician turned businessman pavel antov and the oil boss ravil maganov, who both died last year. they had openly criticised russia s war in ukraine, and both reportedly fell to their deaths from windows. this man, boris berezovsky another putin critic who fled to the uk
to have killed the leader of the wagner group, prigozhin. president putin said mr prigozhin was a time of the businessman who he had known since the 1990s. mr prigozhin made some serious mistakes but also achieve results. there is widespread suspicion that mr prigozhin was deliberately killed in revenge for leading a mutiny seen as a challenge to mr putin s authority. the two of the bbc they believe russia was s spy the bbc they believe russia was s spy agency is most likely to have been responsible. ukraine president zielinski said p2 a journalist living is aware of who was involved. there d been coming to the wreckage and there is still no official confirmation of what was on board. the apparent death of mr prigozhin with global implications as well as fighting in ukraine, the mercenary group is been active in parts of africa. this from our editor.