cnn's matthew chance live for us in moskow. and matthew, another crisis for ukraine's president. >> reporter: yeah, of course volodymyr zelensky is his name, and he's already add the heart of the impeachment proceedings against president trump and now he's got this international tragedy with which he has to deal. ukrainian investigators are on the ground in tehran. they're examining the remains on the salvage opration at the crash site. within the past couple of hours president zelensky has issued a statement saying that, you know, he's not ruling out the missile version of the reason why this plane went down, and he's called on the united states, on canada and britain as well. all of those countries saying they've seen intelligence that indicates it may have been an iranian missile that inadvertently shot the plane down. it's calling on those three countries to release any data they have, give it to the investigators so they can get to the bottom of what actually happened. at the moment there are other areas being investigated

let's goat you to moskow now for some perspective on all this.atthew chance monitoring monitoring and whether soleimani's death might in some way strengthen russia's position in the region, your thoughts. >> i think that's a good point but i think it's only a temporary advantage amongst a few other temporary advantages. look, the death of soleimani is a blow to iran's influence in places like syria, for instance, where he was basically the point man on the ground. the russians knew him very well. they would have coordinated with him when it came to sort of policy on the ground in syria where of course russia is fighting to back its ally bashar al assad on the same side as iranian and iranian backed forces. so his departure from the scene does leave a bit of a vacuum at least temporarily, which the russians may want to take advantage of. there was also a spike in the oil price as a result of this targeted killing as well, which was a wind fall for russian coppers, but one of the biggest operatives in the world, but all of these sort of temporary h

cnn's fred pleitgen live in moskow with more. fred, what does this mean? >> reporter: well, it looks like christine, it means that the strategist vladimir putin has struck again. it looks like he's sort of ensuring maybe his future in politics beyond 2024. so what happens in 2024 is that vladimir putin finishes his fourth term as russian president. and after that he will have to step down as president. there's a lot of speculation that's been going on here what happens after that. doesf he completely leave politics or does he try to carve out a new role for himself? so that's what some people believe might be happening right now. these constitutional reforms putin wants would essentially give more power to the russian parliament and prime minister and less power to the president who at that point won't be vladimir putin anymore. there's some people speculating whether he'll try to go back to prime minister or carve up some new power center for himself where he'd be less involved in day to day politics but more involved in larger decision making. i can tell

. >> cnn's matthew chance live in moskow. it's heart breaking to hear those people talk about the lives lost on that jet. what happens next here? this is another crisis for ukraine's president. >> reporter: it is. remember volodymyr zelensky, that's the name of the crew yanian president, he's already at the center of othose very disruptive painful allegations, impeachment allegations in the united states. and now he's at the heart of this massive national international crisis with the loss of so many lives on this airliner. and to make matters worse i think in some ways it's clear that he hasn't been given the intelligence that other countries like the united states, like canada and like britain say that they have which would give some clarity about what happens to this 737 800 which slammed into the ground on the outskirts of the iranian capital in the past few hours. there's been a statement from volodymyr zelensky saying, look, we haven't ruled out the possibility of a strike but he called on u.s. and britain to release th

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cnn's fred pleitgen live with the latest in moskow. what are you hearing there?> reporter: i'm hearing the ukrainians are taking this seriously. the ukrainians are saying, look, they saw that and realized there might have been ukrainian laws breached in all this. they say ukraine's position is not to interfere in the domestic affairs of the united states but then they go onto say however the published references cited contain possible violation of the law of ukraine and the vienna convention on diplomatic relations which protects the right of a diplomat on the territory of a foreign country. so clearly the ukraine krians a saying they feel responsibility about not just the safety about yovanovitch but also not get wiretapped in any way, shape or form. has not received any comment from the state department on the matter yet. the ukrainians also saying they would like the u.s. to participate in the investigation. they've asked the fbi to turn over anything that they find about it, and they say they want an answer from the u.s. as fast as possible. all this, by the

cnn's fred pleitgen live in moskow. what is going on here?> reporter: it looks like the strategist vladimir putin might be back at work, and there's a lot of people speculating what exactly he's trying to do there. but the bottom line vladimir putin in 20234 will reach the end of his fourth time as russian president so then he will have to step down. if big question is will he leave politics, find some way to stay in politics or at least in some form of power. with this new thing going on many people speculate that could be the case. he had his state of the union address where he announced he wanted sweeping changes to russia's constitution. now, those changes would make the prime minister of the country more powerful and the parliament more powerful because they declare who the prime minister and would make the president and office of the president less powerful. that means the next president of the russian federation whoever it's going to be, and it's not going to be vladimir putin is going to be less powerful than the current president of

including crazy stuff like an all expenses paid trip to moskow by a delegation of nra officials. and maria butina's boyfriend, an american republican operative offering the trump campaign a back channel between trump and putin. and butina's handler showing up at nra conferences and chatting up donald trump, jr. it's been nearly two years since it was first reported amid all of that craziness that the fbi was investigating whether the nra's gigantic 2016 campaign spending on behalf of trump might have been partly foreign money, russian money illegally funneled through the nra to support trump's candidacy. whatever happened to that investigation? and i don't know if all that weird russia stuff and the unprecedented campaign spending in 2016, i don't know if it's all connected to what has been happening at the nra more recently. but over the last few months, over the course of this year i mean we have watched this conservative political behemoth with really no equal in conservative politics. we have watched it collapse at breathtaking speed. starting in april of this year with this