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Editor\u2019s note: This developing story was updated at 8:45 p.m. EST.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TALLINN, Estonia \u2014 Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin<\/a>, who led a brief armed rebellion<\/a> against the Russian military earlier this year, was presumed dead Wednesday after a plane crash north of Moscow that killed all 10 people on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prigozhin was on the plane, according to Russia\u2019s civil aviation agency, which cited the airline. The crash immediately raised suspicions since the fate of the founder of the Wagner private military company has been the subject of intense speculation ever since he mounted the mutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, President Vladimir Putin denounced the rebellion as \u201ctreason\u201d and a \u201cstab in the back\u201d and vowed to avenge it. But the charges against Prigozhin were soon dropped, and the Wagner chief was allowed to retreat to Belarus, while reportedly popping back in Russia from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crash also comes after Russian media reported that a top general linked to Prigozhin was dismissed from his position<\/a> as commander of the air force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A plane carrying three crew members and seven passengers that was en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg went down almost 300 kilometers (185 miles) north of the capital, according to officials cited by Russia\u2019s state news agency Tass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s civilian aviation agency, Rosaviatsia, quickly reported that he was on the manifest and later said that, according to the airline, he was indeed on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is shown prior to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on July 4, 2017. (Sergei Ilnitsky\/Pool via AP, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, Vladimir Rogov, a Russia-appointed official in the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine, said he talked to Wagner commanders who also confirmed that Prigozhin was aboard, as was Dmitry Utkin, whose call sign Wagner became the company\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know for a fact what happened but I\u2019m not surprised,\u201d U.S. President Joe Biden said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keir Giles, a Russia expert with the international affairs think-tank Chatham House, had urged caution about reports of Prigozhin\u2019s death. He said \u201cmultiple individuals have changed their name to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, as part of his efforts to obfuscate his travels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flight tracking data reviewed by The Associated Press showed a private jet that Prigozhin had used previously took off from Moscow on Wednesday evening and its transponder signal disappeared minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The signal stopped suddenly while the plane was at altitude and traveling at speed. In an image posted by a pro-Wagner social media account showing burning wreckage, a partial tail number matching a jet previously used by Prigozhin could be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Videos shared by the pro-Wagner Telegram channel Grey Zone showed a plane dropping like a stone from a large cloud of smoke, twisting wildly as it falls. Such freefalls can occur when an aircraft sustains severe damage, and a frame-by-frame AP analysis of two videos was consistent with some sort of explosion mid-flight. The images appeared to show the plane is missing a wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee opened an investigation into the crash on charges of violating air safety rules, as is typical when they open such probes. Interfax, citing emergency officials, reported early Thursday that all 10 bodies had been recovered at the site of the crash and the search operation had ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if confirmed, Prigozhin\u2019s death is unlikely to have an effect on Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, where his forces fought some of the fiercest battles over the last 18 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His troops pulled back from front-line action after capturing Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, in late May. Bakhmut had been the subject of arguably the bloodiest battles in the entire war, with the Russian forces struggling to seize it for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the rebellion, Russian officials said his fighters would only be able to return to Ukraine as part of the regular army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, Prigozhin posted his first recruitment video since the mutiny<\/a>, saying that Wagner is conducting reconnaissance and search activities, and \u201cmaking Russia even greater on all continents, and Africa<\/a> even more free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also this week, Russian media reported, citing anonymous sources, that Gen. Sergei Surovikin was dismissed from his position of the commander of Russia\u2019s air force. Surovikin, who at one point led Russia\u2019s operation in Ukraine, hasn\u2019t been seen in public since the mutiny, when he recorded a video address urging Prigozhin\u2019s forces to pull back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As news of the crash was breaking, Putin spoke at an event commemorating the Battle of Kursk, hailing the heroes of Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, said on Telegram that \u201cno matter what caused the plane crash, everyone will see it as an act of vengeance and retribution\u201d by the Kremlin, and \u201cthe Kremlin wouldn\u2019t really stand in the way of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom Putin\u2019s point of view, as well as the security forces and the military \u2014 Prigozhin\u2019s death must be a lesson to any potential followers,\u201d Stanovaya said in a Telegram post. According to her, after the mutiny, Prigozhin \u201cstopped being the authorities\u2019 partner and could not, under any circumstances, get that status back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe also wasn\u2019t forgiven,\u201d Stanovaya wrote. \u201cPrigozhin was needed for some time after the mutiny to painlessly complete the dismantling of Wagner in Russia.\u201d But overall, \u201calive, happy, full-of-strength and full-of-ideas Prigozhin was, definitely, a walking source of threats for the authorities, the embodiment of Putin\u2019s political humiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanovaya doesn\u2019t expect much public outcry over Prigozhin\u2019s death, as those who supported him will be \u201cmore scared than inspired to protest,\u201d while others would see it as a \u201cdeserved outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press writers Jill Lawless in London, Michael Biesecker in Washington, Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Seung Min Kim in South Lake Tahoe, California, contributed.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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