A business jet en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg crashed Wednesday, killing all 10 people on board, Russian emergency officials said. Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, officials said, but it wasn’t immediately clear if he was on board.
Unconfirmed media reports said the jet belonged to Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private military company.
Russia’s civilian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, said Prigozhin was on the passenger list. However, it was not immediately clear if he had boarded the flight.
Russia’s state news agency Tass cited emergency officials as saying that the plane carried three pilots and seven passengers. The authorities said they were investigating the crash, which occurred in the Tver region more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Moscow.
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.
(AP)
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I wonder how that happened!!!
Interesting that Putin didn’t go the usual poison route.
Wouldn’t falling out of a locked window be more traditional?
LOL you’re all so funny
Hmmmmm. How subtle
What took so long ?
That idiot tried to overthrow the Putin regime,he should have been room temperature the very next day.
Putin becoming soft at his old age LOL
I’m surprised it took as long as it did.
dont mess with Putin, can you imagine the damage hell to America if Biden is stupid enough to antaganize the Russian bear.
After the coup, he had a life expectancy of two weeks.
CRASHED ?!?!?!?!?!
Did anyone watch the clip ?
IT WAS SHOT DOWN
Prigozhin stayed away from windows but there is no way to avoid the long arm of Vladimir Putin.
He didn’t succed in killing his old Patron, so his days were numbered from day he rebelled.
BBC says he was shot down:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733#
It was an unfortunate accident. Putin has assured the Russian people that he will initiate an independent investigation and leave no missile or IED undetonated.
Very smart somebody hid a device on that plane that struck a fire on it he probably knew that also would happen to him he wasn’t going to Moscow to picnic with Putin
Biden did it
Biden more likely
Biden more likely You fools allowed America to trash Russia. Really. When did wisdom leave Torah. Prince William could have done it as easily. So could have this monster. They are all evil
B”DE
In the video the young man is addressing his father in Russian-belarusian mix saying that they shot the plane twice . I speak russian