A business jet en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg has crashed, killing all ten people on board, Russian emergency officials say. Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, officials say, but it wasn't immediately clear if he was on board.
Posted: Aug 23, 2023 1:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago
Yevgeny Prigozhin, seen in an image from a recently released video, was on the list of passengers of a private plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday. It wasn't immediately clear if he was on board. A business jet en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg crashed Wednesday, killing all ten 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., which involved Wagner fighters crossing from Ukraine into Russia.
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