A private Embraer jet crashed Wednesday the Russian region of Tver with ten passengers on board, including the head of the Wagner group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, according to the civil aviation agency, Rossaviatsia.
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“An investigation has been opened into the Embraer plane disaster that occurred this afternoon in the Tver region. According to the list of passengers, including Yevgeny Prigozhin’s name and surname are foundRossaviatsia informed local authorities.
For his part, he Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed that the incident took place near the town of Kuzhenkino and that three of the ten people traveling on board the aircraft were crew members.
“According to preliminary data everyone on board is dead“Reported the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
The plane crashed in Tver, less than 200 kilometers from Moscow, when it was on a flight between city of Saint Petersburg and the Russian capital.
Emergency services have traveled to the scene of the accident to search for possible injuries.
Meanwhile, the governor of Tver, Igor Rudenia, took personal charge of the investigation into what happened to the civilian plane.
Prigozhin, 62, starred in one two months ago failed military uprising against the Kremlin in which he came to take one of the most important cities in southern Russia, Rostov-on-Don.
After mediation by the Belarusian president Alexander LukashenkoPrigozhin agreed to withdraw his mercenaries and move his base to the territory of that former Soviet republic.
After accusing him of treason, Russian President Vladimir Putin received him in the Kremlin, after which Prigozhin announced the resumption of Wagner’s operations in Africa.
Exactly, Prigozhin appeared on video for the first time since the riot on Monday, suggesting that he had returned to Africa to make Russia “even bigger on all continents”.
“The Wagner Group makes Russia even bigger on all continents and Africa even freer,” says Prigozhin in the recording, broadcast by Telegram channels close to the Russian militia.
Source: El heraldo
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