Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is feared dead after he was reported to be on a plane which crashed in Russia tonight, two months after his failed coup attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The plane was seen in a video falling out of the sky in the Bologovsky district in the Tver region. The burning wreckage was later seen in a field, and images on social media purport to show the plan[e] engulfed in flames.
It was initially unknown if Wagner chief Prigozhin – known as Putin’s chef and with longstanding links to the Kremlin dictator – was on board, but it has since been reported that the passenger list included his name.
[Interesting. TASS is apparently reporting it too. We’ll see. If this is true, then it escalates ‘defenestroika’ to a whole new level. — Ed]
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