Prigozhin is the leader of the Wagner mercenary group that attempted a mutiny in Russia in June. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW - Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet which crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said, raising fears among his allies that he had been killed.and a self-declared enemy of the Russian Defence Ministry, was physically on board.
Reuters could not confirm that he was on the aircraft though a Telegram channel linked to Wagner pronounced him dead. The channel, Grey Zone, declared Mr Prigozhin a hero and a patriot who it said had died at the hands of unidentified people it called “traitors to Russia.” If confirmed, his death would leave the Wagner Group, which incurred President Vladimir Putin’s wrath in June byagainst the army’s top brass, leaderless and raise questions about its future operations in Africa and elsewhere.
Whoever or whatever was behind the crash, his death would also rid Mr Putin of someone who had mounted the most serious challenge to the Russian leader’s authority since he came to power in 1999.“An investigation has been launched into an Embraer plane crash that occurred tonight in the Tver region,” Rosaviatsia, Russia’s aviation agency, was cited as saying by the state Tass news agency.
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