While facts around the plane crash that reportedly killed Yevgeny Prigozhin are murky, American and British officials believe the private jet was brought down by an explosion.
While facts around the plane crash that reportedly killed Yevgeny Prigozhin are murky, American and British officials believe the private jet was brought down by an explosion—and they are increasingly certain that the killing was ordered by Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reports. In a tweet Friday, Britain’s defense ministry said while there isn’t “definitive proof” that the Wagner Group chief was on the aircraft, “it is highly likely that he is indeed dead.” The ministry noted that the death will “almost certainly have a deeply destabilizing effect” on the mercenary group.
