A plane crash reportedly killed 10 people including Wagner Mercenary Group Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin Tuesday after crashing north of Moscow, Russian state media said.
Yevgeny Prigozhin was reportedly aboard a plane that crashed Tuesday.
One of the passengers on the plane was a person with the name Evgeny Prigozhin, RIA News said.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency has launched an investigation into the crash which happened in the Tver region of Russia, state-media RIA News posted on Telegram.
While Prigozhin was on the passenger list, it’s not clear if he definitively boarded the flight, the Associated Press reported.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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