MOSCOW: Russian investigators said on Sunday (Aug 27) that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed
Russia's aviation agency had previously published the names of all 10 people on board the private jet that crashed in the Tver region northwest of Moscow. They included Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, his right-hand man who helped found the Wagner group.
"According to their results, the identities of all 10 dead were established. They correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet," it added. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the Jun 23 to Jun 24 mutiny as a treacherous"stab in the back", but later met with Prigozhin in the Kremlin. HeWestern politicians and commentators have suggested, without presenting evidence, that Putin ordered Prigozhin to be killed as punishment for the mutiny, which also represented the biggest challenge to Putin's own rule since he came to power in 1999.
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