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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the controversial Wagner Group was included in the list of passengers of the crashed flight
The Federal Agency for Air Transport of Russia reportedly initiated an investigation of the crash of a plane that happened in the Tver Region on Wednesday (Aug.23). Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the controversial Wagner Group was included in the list of passengers of the crashed flight.
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A business jet crash in Russia has killed 10, and Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, authorities said. The jet was en route from Moscow to St Petersburg, where it crashed killing all ten people on board. The plane reportedly caught fire after hitting the ground and burned up. It had been in flight for less than 30 minutes.
Unconfirmed media reports said the jet belonged to Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private military company. It was not immediately clear if the Wagner boss had boarded the flight.
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Prigozhin, whose private military force Wagner fought alongside Russia’s regular army in Ukraine, mounted a short-lived armed mutiny against Russia’s military leadership in late June. The Kremlin said he would be exiled to Belarus, and his fighters would either retire, follow him there or join the Russian military. Wagner has a formidable presence in Africa. While the West is alleging that they are muddling in the internal policies of some of the African countries, particularly in the Sahel region, Russian circles maintain that they are only involved in training.
