Prigozhin Presumed Dead
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In an extra episode of Ukrainecast, Adam Fleming and Vitaly Shevchenko are joined by the BBC’s Frank Gardner and Lou Osborne from the monitoring group All Eyes on Wagner to discuss the news that the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been presumed dead following a plane crash.
The producers were Chris Flynn and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Rohan Madison. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:05.3 | It's 546 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:11.9 | And early on Wednesday evening, we heard the news from the Russian authorities saying that |
| 0:16.4 | the Wagner mercenary boss, Evgeny Pragorshin, was on the passenger list of a private jet that |
| 0:22.4 | has crashed north of Moscow, killing everyone on board. |
| 0:27.0 | In this collaboration with newscast presented by Adam Fleming, we bring you the latest |
| 0:32.2 | on another dramatic day. |
| 0:35.0 | This is Ukrainecasts. |
| 0:37.0 | Ukrainecasts from BBC News. |
| 0:40.3 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain. |
| 0:44.9 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
| 0:47.9 | Putin is the aggressor, he will be rigid to use nuclear weapons. |
| 0:53.5 | They killed him and fled. |
| 0:55.1 | I do not know how we managed to survive. |
| 0:58.0 | Russia? |
| 0:59.0 | I want people to know the truth. |
| 1:02.1 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:04.8 | And it's vitally working from home today. |
| 1:07.2 | And Frank Gardner also working from home. |
| 1:09.2 | And we're also joined by Louis Bourne from the monitoring group All Eyes on Wagner and |
| 1:13.7 | her book Wagner and investigation into the Pragorshin system will be published in France this autumn. |
| 1:19.2 | Hi, Louis. |
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