Putin they say never flies in Russia and only travels by train
Key points
- Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin has been killed in a plane crash, the country’s aviation authority has confirmed.
- All seven passengers and three crew on board the flight from Moscow to St Petersburg were killed.
- Speculation is rife among Kremlin watchers that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the downing of the aircraft.
- Prigozhin led the Wagner group which staged a failed mutiny in June, challenging Putin’s rule of Russia.
- Dmitry Utkin, a leading Wagner Group figure and former Russian special forces officer, was reported to have died alongside Prigozhin.
Russia’s civil aviation authority said the Wagner boss was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed while flying from Moscow to St Petersburg.
Source: Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group boss killed in plane crash in Russia