There is no immediate official confirmation that Yevgeny Prigozhin was physically on board.
This image shows the crash site of the private jet near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver Region.
Reuters could not confirm that he was on the aircraft though a Telegram channel linked to Wagner pronounced him dead. Whoever or whatever was behind the crash, his death would also rid 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.
Prigozhin, 62, spearheaded the mutiny against Russia’s top army brass on June 23-24 which Putin said could have tipped Russia into civil war. Wagner fighters shot down Russian attack helicopters during the revolt, killing an unconfirmed number of pilots in a move which infuriated the military.
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