Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin listed in Russian plane crash with no survivors
Russian authorities have confirmed that a private jet with Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin listed as a passenger crashed between Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, killing all on board, RT reported.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry confirmed that the jet plunged to the ground in Tver Region, and that all three crew and seven passengers on board were killed. The ministry said that the jet, an Embraer 135BJ Legacy 600, was traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg at the time of the incident.
Rosaviatsiya, the Russian federal air transport agency, said that Prigozhin was on board, along with several high-ranking Wagner commanders.
Although Rosaviatsiya said that Prigozhin’s name was on board, it did not explicitly pronounce the Wagner chief dead.
In addition to Prigozhin, Rosaviatsiya said Dmitry Utkin – a former Russian special forces operator and alleged co-founder of the PMC – was also traveling on the jet, as was Valery Chekalov, whom the US considers to be the deputy head of Wagner. The remaining passengers listed were Sergey Propustin, Evgeny Makaryan, Alexander Totmin, and Nikolay Matuseev, identified by Russian news outlets as Wagner.
Russian authorities said they are investigating the crash.
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