Russia’s civil aviation agency said Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and six top lieutenants were on a business jet that crashed on Wednesday.
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and top officers of his private Wagner military company are presumed dead in a plane crash that was widely seen as an assassination, two months after they staged a mutiny that dented Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority.
Numerous opponents and critics of Mr Putin have been killed or gravely sickened in apparent assassination attempts. While countless theories about the events swirled, most observers saw Mr Prigozhin’s death as Mr Putin’s punishment for the most serious challenge to his authority of his 23-year rule. A Russian serviceman inspects part of a crashed private jet near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region, Russia Mr Putin first denounced the rebellion as “treason” and a “stab in the back” and vowed to punish its perpetrators, but hours later made a deal that saw an end to the mutiny in exchange for an amnesty for Mr Prigozhin and his mercenaries and permission for them to move to Belarus.
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