The Prigozhin plane crash — Putin’s revenge? | Start Here

Wagner Group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is presumed dead after a plane crash in Russia. Could this be Putin taking revenge for the mutiny Prigozhin led in June? And what will happen to the Wagner Group now? #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains.

This episode features:

Colin Clarke – Director of research, the Soufan Group

Sergey Markov – Former Russian MP and Putin advisor

Dmitry Babich – Russian political analyst

PJ Crowley –  Former US assistant secretary of state for public affairs

Samuel Ramani – Associate fellow, RUSI

Patrick Bury – Senior lecturer in security, University of Bath

Nicolas Haque – Al Jazeera correspondent, Dakar, Senegal

Pavel Felgenhauer, Russian military analyst