Prigozhin “died”: Wagner’s boss among the passengers of the crashed plane

Also included was the head of the mercenary company Wagner, Evgheni Prigozhin, on the list of passengers on board the private Embraer jet that crashed in the Tver region of Russia. All 10 people on board died. The information was reported by the Federal Air Transport Agency, which launched an investigation into the accident, according to reports from TASS. “The Embraer plane was flying from Sheremetyevo airport, in Moscow, to Saint Petersburg. There were three pilots and seven passengers on board. Everyone died,” reports Tass, according to which the accident took place near the village of Kuzhenkino.

In turn, the emergency services reported that the bodies of four people were found. The plane burned up when it hit the ground, it had been in the air for less than half an hour. One of the Telegram channels linked to Wagner claims that the jet was shot down by Russian anti-aircraft guns.

If confirmed that Evgheny Prigozhin is among the 10 people killed in the crash of an Embraer jet, his death would have occurred two months after the coup against the Russian leadership. It was June 24 when Wagner’s boss announced “the march of justice on Moscow from Rostov-on-Don, at the head of about 25,000 mercenaries, at the end of weeks of accusations and recriminations for the management of the war in Ukraine”. A coup d’état, defined by Vladimir Putin as a “stab in the back”, which returned a few hours later, with the mediation of Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko and the promise of the mercenaries to withdraw from Ukraine and transfer their bases to Belarus.