The Wagner chief staged a high-profile armed rebellion against Moscow in June, which experts saw as a real threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
, has been confirmed dead following a plane crash over Russian territory on Wednesday, according to Russian state authorities.
Russia's civil aviation authority said on Wednesday that the plane carrying Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenary group lieutenant, Dmitry Utkin, had crashed at around 6 p.m. local time. The plane crashed near the village of Kuzhenkino, in Russia's Tver region, and footage quickly emerged of the plane plummeting towards the ground, along with photos of the wreckage.
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