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US President Joe Biden and the Wagner group has pointed the finger at Putin - but the Russian leader is yet to respond
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the Wagner founder who staged an aborted mutiny in June, was listed as a passenger on a plane that crashed. There was no official confirmation of his death.
Russian aviation officials said Wednesday that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was believed to have been killed in a plane crash.
The jet carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin was flying normally until it made a "sudden downward vertical" in the last 30 seconds, Reuters reported.
The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency has confirmed that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane that crashed northwest of Moscow on Wednesday.