Wagner chief’s plane shot down by Russians?
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A private jet belonging to the Wagner mercenary chief Evgeny Prigozhin crashed in Tver region in Russia on Wednesday evening with 10 people dead including Prigozhin himself.
According to Russia’s Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsiya), three crew members and seven passengers were on board of Embraer Legacy 600. Several Telegram channels reported that the jet was show down by air defense system.
The reports also said that Prigozhin’s deputy in the Wagner group, Dmitry Utkin, was also killed in the crash.
The news outlet here is an Israeli cable news consortium that appears fairly legitimate on the basis of 30 seconds of Googling.
. . . per the BBC, Russia’s civil aviation authority has confirmed that Prigozhin was on the passenger list.