There was no confirmation from Kremlin officials or the Wagner Group after a plane listing Yevgeniy Prigozhin as a passenger crashed northwest of Moscow, killing all 10 onboard. Prigozhin’s name was on the flight manifest of the Embraer business jet that went down in the Tver region, Russia’s air transport agency said. Two explosions were heard before the plane fell from the sky and burst into flames in a field, eyewitnesses told Russian media. Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group mercenary organization, was once a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and played a major role on the battlefield in Ukraine. But tensions between him with Russia’s military leaders escalated, reaching a climax when he led a short-lived rebellion in June.
