Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed as one of the 10 people aboard an Embraer Legacy business jet that crashed in Russia on Aug. 23. The crash appeared unsurvivable and all the bodies were recovered at the scene, according to the BBC. Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June but had since returned to Russia after a deal was reached with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Wagner said in a statement that the plane was taken down by Russian "air defenses" on a flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg but offered no evidence of that.
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