RUSSIA: WAGNER'S CHIEF WAS KILLED IN AIR CRASH
Daily Record|August 28, 2023
Prigozhin is dead, Moscow chiefs claim
MATTHEW YOUNG
RUSSIA: WAGNER'S CHIEF WAS KILLED IN AIR CRASH

RUSSIAN officials yesterday confirmed that Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash north of Moscow.

Forensic testing was carried out on all 10 bodies recovered at a crash site and Russia's investigative committee said their identities "conform to the manifest".

Russia's civil aviation authority said previously that Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants were on a list of those on board the plane that crashed last Wednesday, which prompted days of speculation over Prigozhin's fate.

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