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Russian mercenary chief listed as passenger on crashed plane, state media says
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group who led an aborted mutiny in June, was listed among 10 aboard a passenger jet that crashed north of Moscow. Here’s what we know and what NBC News has verified about the crash.
Though much is still unclear, here's what we know and what NBC News has verified about the dramatic incident.
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group would not be the first person to fall out of favor with the Kremlin and then appear to die in suspicious circumstances.
Prigozhin’s future has been a mystery since his Wagner fighters captured the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on June 23, before they began to march on Moscow.
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