Yevgeny Prigozhin, the top of the paramilitary group often called the Wagner Group, tragically handed away in a airplane crash close to Tver, north of Moscow.

The crash was reported by the Russian information company Ria Novosti. The plane, an Embraer Legacy, was en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

Based on preliminary info from Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Conditions, the crash resulted in ten fatalities, because the information company Interfax said.

Russia’s Federal Air Transport Company (Rosaviatsiya) confirmed Prigozhin’s presence on the passenger listing and has initiated an investigation into the crash.

Reviews from Telegram channels related to the Wagner Group counsel that Dmitry Utkin, the group’s former prime commander, may also have been a sufferer within the accident.

Prigozhin, a founding father of the Wagner Group, was as soon as a detailed ally of Putin however had a falling-out after an unsuccessful mutiny try.

The Wagner Group, together with Prigozhin, as soon as aimed to problem Russian army management and Kremlin’s wartime methods, notably after they confronted vital losses within the Ukrainian battle.

After the failed mutiny, negotiations with the Russian authorities led to the relocation of the Wagner Group’s headquarters to Belarus, Russia’s foremost ally within the battle.

Prigozhin’s most up-to-date public look was a day earlier than the crash.

He shared a video on his Telegram channel, supposedly filmed in Africa, expressing his imaginative and prescient for a extra “liberated” continent.