Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, along with nine others, have reportedly died after a business jet crashed in Russia, two months after he led a rebellion against the Kremlin.
Russia's civilian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, said Prigozhin was on the passenger list.Russia's state news agency Tass cited emergency officials as saying that the plane carried three pilots and seven passengers.
Earlier, the Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone had reported the jet was shot down by air defences in Tver region, north of Moscow. Prigozhin, whose private military force Wagner fought alongside Russia's regular army in Ukraine, mounted a short-lived armed mutiny against Russia's military leadership in late June.
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