Russian Wagner Group warlord Prigozhin among dead on plane that crashed

Russian Wagner Group warlord Prigozhin among dead on plane that crashed, killing 10, officials say

The business jet was traveling from the Russian capital to St. Petersburg when it went down in the Tver region, according to the TASS news agency.

“Prigozhin was listed among the passengers, according to the Federal Air Transport Agency,” read a post by TASS on Telegram. “An investigation into the crash of the Embraer aircraft has been launched, the department noted.”

It was not immediately clear whether Prigozhin is among the 10 reported to have died in the crash, but Russian state media later said he had died. The Pentagon told Fox News Digital that it is monitoring the situation.

“We have seen the reports. If confirmed, no one should be surprised,” White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement. “The disastrous war in Ukraine led to a private army marching on Moscow, and now — it would seem — to this.”

Earlier, President Biden was asked about reports that Prigozhin was possibly on the doomed aircraft. I don’t know for a fact what happened, but I am not surprised…Not much happens in Russia that Putin’s not behind. I don’t know enough to know the answer,” he said.

Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and former senior official at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), told Fox News Digital that reports by Russian state media should be looked at with skepticism, given Moscow’s agenda

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