Prigozhin Plane Crash: What Next for Putin?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Does the Wagner chief’s reported death strengthen the Russian president?
Lyse, Vitaly and journalist Gabriel Gatehouse unpick the latest developments surrounding Wednesday's plane crash, and the presumed death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group.
And Kremlin critic Bill Browder suggests that Prigozhin’s presumed death is “the beginning of the purge” and gives an insight of what it’s like to be a marked man in Moscow.
Today’s episode is presented by Lyse Doucet and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Sam McLaren, Josh Jenkins, Beth Rose and Ivana Davidovic. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | It's 547 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and we're still trying |
| 0:12.7 | to make sense of what happened on Wednesday evening when news suddenly broke that the |
| 0:18.0 | Wagner-Chiefy of Guinea-Bregosian was on a plane that crashed in Western Russia. |
| 0:24.2 | And on our online community discord, lots of you have been asking questions as to what |
| 0:29.7 | it might have gone on and what it means. |
| 0:32.8 | Adam Lomb asks, the question will be, how does Wagner take it? |
| 0:37.7 | Did they have an obvious second-in-command? |
| 0:40.5 | Could they go rogue or just pull out of Russian involvement altogether? |
| 0:46.0 | And somebody who goes by the name D.T. Underskortel asks, do we know anything about who else |
| 0:53.0 | was on board that plane? |
| 0:55.4 | And from time soon, surely this can be a coincidence, a bit more dramatic than someone just |
| 1:01.8 | happening, quote unquote, to fall out of a window. |
| 1:06.8 | Lots of questions will try to answer them and will discuss whether this leaves President |
| 1:12.1 | Vladimir Putin in a stronger position than where he was 24 hours ago. |
| 1:19.0 | This is Ukraine-Coste. |
| 1:21.5 | Ukraine-Coste for business. |
| 1:24.4 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heart-hage and pain. |
| 1:28.9 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
| 1:31.9 | Putin is the aggressor, he will be ready to use nuclear weapons. |
| 1:37.2 | They killed him and fled. |
| 1:39.2 | I do not know how we managed to survive. |
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