{"id":69135,"date":"2023-08-27T14:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/08\/27\/russia-says-it-confirmed-wagner-leader-prigozhin-died-in-a-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:43:12","slug":"russia-says-it-confirmed-wagner-leader-prigozhin-died-in-a-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2023\/08\/27\/russia-says-it-confirmed-wagner-leader-prigozhin-died-in-a-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says it confirmed Wagner leader Prigozhin died in a plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MOSCOW \u2014 Russian authorities on Sunday confirmed the death of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wagner-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wagner Group<\/a>&nbsp;chief&nbsp;Yevgeny Prigozhin, putting to rest any doubts about whether the wily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/06\/27\/belarus-says-prigozhin-has-arrived-after-weekend-mutiny-in-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">mercenary leader turned mutineer<\/a> was on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2023\/08\/23\/mercenary-chief-who-mutinied-against-putin-reportedly-on-crashed-plane\/\" target=\"_blank\">plane that crashed Wednesday<\/a>, killing everyone on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genetic testing on the 10 bodies recovered at the crash site \u201cconform to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-wagner-prigozhin-jet-crash-f6cf109ccf19fea4cb87993c8f2d6aaa\">the manifest<\/a>&nbsp;&#8221; for the flight, Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement. Russia\u2019s civil aviation authority had said Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants were on the list of seven passengers and three crew members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Investigative Committee did not indicate what might have caused the business jet to plummet from the sky halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg, Prigozhin\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But&nbsp;the crash\u2019s timing raised suspicions&nbsp;of a possible Kremlin-orchestrated hit, while Prigozhin\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yevgeny-prigozhin-wagner-group-russia-crash-obituary-0c0d4e6619ef9cb89df6a45a431ff53c\" target=\"_blank\">chameleon-like background<\/a>&nbsp;allowed for speculation that he wasn\u2019t on the plane or had somehow escaped death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two months ago, Prigozhin, 62, mounted a daylong mutiny against Russia\u2019s military, leading his mercenaries from Ukraine toward Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin decried the act as \u201ctreason\u201d and vowed punishment for those involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2023\/08\/24\/us-intel-believes-intentional-blast-downed-wagner-chiefs-plane\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23236403835185.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US intel believes \u2018intentional\u2019 blast downed Wagner chief\u2019s plane<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment found the crash presumed to have killed Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was intentionally caused by an explosion.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, the Kremlin quickly cut a deal with Prigozhin to end the armed revolt, saying he would be allowed to walk free without facing any charges and to resettle in Belarus. Questions remained about whether the former ally of Russia\u2019s leader would&nbsp;face a comeuppance&nbsp;for the brief uprising that posed the biggest challenge to Putin\u2019s authority of his 23-year rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2023\/08\/24\/us-intel-believes-intentional-blast-downed-wagner-chiefs-plane\/\" target=\"_blank\">an intentional explosion<\/a>&nbsp;caused the plane to go down. As suspicions grew that the Russian president was the architect of an assassination,&nbsp;the Kremlin rejected them as a \u201ccomplete lie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the Western officials who described the initial assessment said it determined that Prigozhin was \u201cvery likely\u201d targeted and that an explosion would be in line with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/08\/26\/nerve-agents-poison-and-window-falls-how-kremlin-foes-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">Putin\u2019s \u201clong history of trying to silence his critics.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prigozhin\u2019s second-in-command, Dmitry Utkin, as well as Wagner logistics mastermind Valery Chekalov, also were killed in the crash. Utkin was long believed to have founded Wagner and baptized the group with his nom de guerre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/08\/26\/russias-wagner-mercenaries-face-uncertainty-with-chief-presumed-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">The fate of Wagner<\/a>, which until recently played a prominent role in Russia\u2019s military campaign in Ukraine and was involved in a number of African and Middle Eastern countries, is uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the mutiny, the Kremlin said Prigozhin would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/06\/27\/belarus-says-prigozhin-has-arrived-after-weekend-mutiny-in-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">exiled in Belarus<\/a>, and his fighters were offered three options: to follow him there, retire or enlist in Russia\u2019s regular army and return to Ukraine, where Wagner mercenaries had fought alongside Russian 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