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The exact circumstances of the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin remained unclear Thursday, although most experts believe it marks President Vladimir Putin's vengeance for his short-lived rebellion in June.
Russian authorities have not put forward any cause for the crash.
Prigozhin was on board a plane that crashed on Wednesday, with all passengers killed
"No matter the cause of the plane crash, everyone will see this as an act of retaliation and retribution," said one analyst. "And the Kremlin won't particularly counteract this view."
Kremlin does nothing to deny widespread assessment that Wagner leader's plane crash was an act of revenge by Putin for leading an aborted uprising