He also decapitated the wagner group, because it wasn t just prigozhin there were some other senior wagner soldiers on that plane. which has been across south africa. that is a problem he will have to solve. prigozhin was the man who knew where all the accounts were, the relationships were in that effort. i think to echo professor snide about one thing here, lawrence, six months ago if i told you that we will be sitting here and there will be a mutiny, where prigozhin marched on moscow shut down helicopters, struck some strange deals and ended up being killed in this manner, i don t think that would suggest that vladimir putin is in maybe he is the strongman at the top of the rotten pyramid in russia, but he is certainly not the guy that coalesces support in ukraine cia director burns in july basically predicted this, it could not have been more
Think could have potentially been a factor if and a big if obviously there was this was a planned attack because prigozhin was on that plane and because someone wanted him gone? reporter: i mean, if this was indeed an assassination, i think it s really important that it wasn t just prigozhin who was killed. there were others on that plane. dimitri utkin office that plane, one of wagner s top operatives. so if this was a targeted assassination, then it s clear that the kremlin is really trying to just draw a line under this whole thing altogether because it s important to note that prigozhin has quite a lot of support in russia. and particularly from these hard-liners who do not feel that the ministry of defense has been executing a good job in ukraine, who do not feel that they have been harsh enough in their tactics. who accuse them of being corrupt and incompetent and ineffective. and that chorus of voices has