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ANDREI SOLDATOV, INVESTIGATIVE JOUNALIST: Thank you for having me.ANDREI SOLDATOV: Well, there are still some possibilities but to be honest, all my sources in Moscow they, this time they say that they immediately assumed that it was Vladimir Putin who was behind this attack.
SARAH FERGUSON: Now just explain a little bit more about that. You said Putin has been using this time to consolidate his position in relation to the military and we know that part of the reason for the Wagner mutiny was because of disagreements with the Ministry of Defence and the way the war was being operated.
So what Putin wanted to do during this two months, he wanted to send a message that this kind of conversation about the problems in the Russian military, they're not possible. This conversation these debates are not allowed and that is why some radical elements quite close to the Russian military, they are sent to jail just before his attack on Prigozhin.
SARAH FERGUSON: So it's often the case that the Russian secret service when they target Putin's enemies, we've seen them use poison, obviously some people have been thrown out of windows. What is the significance of such a brazen attack on a flight between Moscow and St Petersburg, right in the heart of the country?
SARAH FERGUSON: And what about Prigozhin's decision to fly around in Russian air space the way he did, to move around freely as he thought? What made him, obviously you don’t know what's inside his head, but why would he think he was safe in Russia? SARAH FERGUSON: And what do you think it means about the next period of time with Putin? We already knew that he was capable of crimes, what does it mean about who and who he is and what he's capable of?
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