Breaking: Wagner Group Founder Yevgeny Prigozhin Among Passengers on Crashed Plane

The mercenary group leader, who led an attempted coup in June, was on board a business jet that crashed in the Tver Region, Rosaviatsiya confirmed, Daily Beast reports.

Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was aboard an Embraer business jet that crashed Wednesday in the Tver Region of Russia, the Russian federal aviation agency Rosaviatsiya confirmed on Wednesday.

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said that all ten people on board died in the incident, according to TASS.

The plane was flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg, according to the Russian Emergencies Ministry. The Federal Air Transport Agency is reportedly launching an investigation into the incident.

The news of the apparent death of the Wagner boss comes weeks after he led his Wagner mercenaries to march on Moscow in protest of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the way it was handling Russia’s war in Ukraine, believed to be the largest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power in decades. Daily Beast

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