From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Teverny-Sea, and this is The Daily.

Today, a mysterious crash of a private jet outside Moscow is believed to have killed

you've gained your pregusion, the Wagner militia boss who led an armed rebellion against

Moscow earlier this summer.

My colleague Anton Trinovsky tells me what we've learned about the crash, and what a potential

political assassination would say about Putin's Russia.

It's Friday, August 25.

So Anton, it's Thursday night for you.

You've been following what's been happening in Russia over the past 24 hours.

So to catch people up, you've gained your pregusion, a guy we've talked a lot about on the

show, is presumed dead in a plane crash just outside Moscow.

And you know, there's still lots of questions swirling around this.

But before we talk about what actually happened, I want to go back to the last time we talked

about pregusion on the show.

And you know, that was when he struck a deal after this armed rebellion that he had staged

that it essentially guaranteed his kind of immunity, if you will.

So tell us the story of what happened to pregusion since then.

So two months ago, you've gained a pregusion mounted a mutiny against the Russian military

leadership.

That was really the biggest threat to Putin's rule in the last 23 years ever since Putin

took power.

And on June 24th, as that mutiny was happening, Putin went out and called pregusion a traitor.

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