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process or could there now be a process of blood letting as other wagner figures try to wreak their revenge? i wagner figures try to wreak their revenue? ., wagner figures try to wreak their revenue? ~ ., , .,, ., revenge? i think what this has done it as it a very revenge? i think what this has done it as it a very powerful revenge? i think what this has done it as it a very powerful message - revenge? i think what this has done j it as it a very powerful message and a signal it as it a very powerful message and a signal and it as it a very powerful message and a signal and struck it as it a very powerful message and a signal and struck quite it as it a very powerful message and a signal and struck quite a - it as it a very powerful message and a signal and struck quite a lot- a signal and struck quite a lot of fear into a signal and struck quite a lot of fear into the a signal and struck quite a lot of fear into the hearts a signal and struck quite a lot of fear into t
then what is the message? this is a clear message to elites. you must be loyal or you must express double loyalty, even. and 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 s talk of a second wagner plane that landed safely. but outside wagner offices in st petersburg, there s now a shrine. people here are in mourning for a mercenary chief they believe has been killed. steve rosenberg, bbc news.
also tonight, prigozhin is presumed dead, the wagner mercenaries are marked men, but is the power base around putin secure? or has the blood letting onlyjust begun? and sealed with a kiss the president of the spanish fa is under investigation over a series of inappropriate celebrations at the women s world cup. good evening. we will have plenty through the night on donald trump s appearance in georgia, but while we wait for those pictures, we are going to get start tonight with events in russia, where the leadership of the wagner mercenary group has been decapitated . all ten bodies have now been recovered from the crash site which stretches over a mile, but they haven t been formally identified. one of them we are told is the body of yevgeny prigozhin. the speculation is it is highly likely the russia s fsb intelligence service orchestrated the plane crash, maybe on the direct orders of vladimir putin. but if it was at his direction, you would get no sense of that
pleased. people are talking about president putin as the man who may be getting revenge here because it sends a very strong message to anyone else in russia who may be planning some kind of armed insurrection or some coup. this is a message to wagner loyalists. don t cross the kremlin. don t even think about raising arms because it s going to end badly. going to end badly. there is of course all going to end badly. there is of course all sorts going to end badly. there is of course all sorts of going to end badly. there is of course all sorts of regulation l going to end badly. there is of - course all sorts of regulation about why this plane came down, and we just heard from a spokesperson for the pentagon who have been looking at it. have a listen to what he said. ., ., ,, ,, , ., said. our initial assessment is that it s likely yevgeny said. our initial assessment is that it s likely yevgeny prigozhin - said. our initial assessment is that it s likely yevgeny prigozhin was i