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A passenger plane crashed near Tver, resulting in 8 confirmed deaths, allegedly including Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Tver, Tver Oblast
Likely Reported by 2 independent sources
Censor.NET Kyiv Post

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Entities

Wagner PMC (organization) Yevgeny Prigozhin (person) Dmytro Hurin (person) Valery Chekalov (person) Russian Investigative Committee (organization) PMC Wagner (organization) Yevgeny Prigozhin (person) Dmitry Utkin (person)

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Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

8 corpses were found at the crash site

Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

Prigozhin was killed by a mid-air explosion on his private aircraft over Russia's Tver Oblast en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:58:22.353Z

Source story: death-of-prigozhin-destabilizes-pmc-wagner-british-intelligence