Russia’s civil aviation authority said the Wagner boss was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed while flying from Moscow to St Petersburg.
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who staged an unsuccessful coup against the Kremlin in June, has been killed in a plane crash over Russia, reports say.
Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone had earlier reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow. Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June and had been banished to Belarus in a deal with the Kremlin.
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