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Personal jet crash in Russia kills 10. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on passenger checklist.

August 23, 2023 by gajah.uk

World Information

It was not clear if Prigozhin was amongst these on board, although Russia’s civilian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, stated he was on the manifest.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the proprietor of the Wagner Group army firm, appears from a army automobile leaving an space of the HQ of the Southern Navy District in a road in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. AP, File

By Related Press


up to date on August 23, 2023 | 2:54 PM

MOSCOW (AP) — A personal jet crashed in Russia on Wednesday, killing all 10 folks aboard, emergency officers stated. Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger checklist, nevertheless it wasn’t instantly clear if he was on board.

Prigozhin’s destiny has been the topic of intense hypothesis ever since he mounted a short-lived mutiny towards Russia’s army management in late June. The Kremlin stated the founding father of the Wagner personal army firm, which fought alongside Russia’s common military in Ukraine, can be exiled to Belarus.

However the mercenary chief has since reportedly popped up in Russia, resulting in additional questions on his future.

A aircraft carrying three pilots and 7 passengers that was en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg went down greater than 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital, in accordance with officers cited by Russia’s state information company Tass. It was not clear if Prigozhin was amongst these on board, although Russia’s civilian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, stated he was on the manifest.

Russia’s state information company RIA Novosti reported, citing emergency officers, that eight our bodies have been discovered on the website of the crash.

Flight monitoring information reviewed by The Related Press confirmed a personal jet registered to Wagner that Prigozhin had used beforehand took off from Moscow on Wednesday night and its transponder sign disappeared minutes later.

The sign was misplaced in a rural area with no close by airfields the place the jet may have landed safely.

In a picture posted by a pro-Wagner social media account exhibiting burning wreckage, a partial tail quantity matching a personal jet belonging to the corporate may very well be seen. The colour and placement of the quantity on the engine of the crashed aircraft matches prior images of the Wagner jet examined by The AP.

This week, Prigozhin posted his first recruitment video for the reason that mutiny, saying that Wagner is conducting reconnaissance and search actions, and “making Russia even better on all continents, and Africa much more free.”

Additionally this week, Russian media reported, citing nameless sources, {that a} high Russian normal linked to Prigozhin — Gen. Sergei Surovikin — was dismissed from his place of the commander of Russia’s air drive. Surovikin, who at one level led Russia’s operation in Ukraine, hasn’t been seen in public for the reason that mutiny, when he recorded a video handle urging Prigozhin’s forces to tug again.

Because the information concerning the crash was breaking, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at an occasion commemorating the Battle of Kursk, hailing the heroes of Russia’s “the particular army operation” in Ukraine.

Posted in: News Tagged: chief, crash, Jet, kills, list, passenger, Prigozhin, private, Russia, Wagner, Yevgeny

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