Russia Confirms Prigozhin Died In Plane Crash

August 27, 2023 7:19 am

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Investigative Committee has confirmed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash. The committee said in a statement Sunday that after forensic testing, all 10 bodies recovered at the site of the crash were identified and the findings “conform to the manifest” of the plane. Russia’s civil aviation authority earlier this week said Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants were on the list of people on board the plane that crashed in Russia on Wednesday. The 62-year-old Prigozhin was killed two months after he mounted a daylong mutiny against Russia’s military that President Vladimir Putin decried as “treason.”