Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin believed dead in plane crash

Russia’s civil aviation agency says mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash north of Moscow along with top aide Dmitry Utkin and eight others. Prigozhin led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year.

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