Whether the apparent downing of a Wagner plane stacked with Putin's enemies was an accident or an assassination, Russia's president reaps the rewards. This is what we know about the crash that changed everything.
"The suspicion that has potentially fallen on senior serving officers highlights how Prigozhin's abortive insurrection has worsened existing faultlines within Russia's national security community," the UK's Ministry of Defence wrote in an intelligence assessment after Surovikin's disappearance,He is not the only military figure to come under a cloud of suspicion over the mutiny.
An official investigation has been ordered to determine the cause of Prigozhin's plane crash, but in the meantime experts believe there are signs it may be part of an elaborate plot. Everything appeared normal as the flight reached its cruising altitude of 28,000 feet shortly after take-off, according to flight tracking data.
The most famous of all on the passenger list was Prigozhin. But it appears that Dmitry Utkin was also on board. While Prigozhin won lucrative contracts, Utkin was the right-hand man in charge of overall combat training.
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