A private Embraer Legacy plane crashed in the Bologovsky district of Tver Oblast, Russia, near the village of Kuzhenkino. All 10 people on board (3 crew and 7 passengers) died.
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Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as having been on board the crashed plane
Dmitry Utkin (alias Wagner) was also on board the plane
A private jet carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin crashed in Tver Oblast on August 23.
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin and founder Dmitry Utkin reportedly died after Russian forces shot down an aircraft transporting senior Wagner commanders over Tver Oblast.
Putin almost certainly ordered the Russian military command to shoot down Prigozhin’s plane.
Prigozhin died in aircraft crash in Tver Oblast on August 23, 2023
A passenger plane crashed in the Tver region of the Russian Federation on August 23, 2023.
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