Mercenary Leader Listed As Aboard Doomed Flight: Fate of Wagner's Founder ls Unknown, but Russia Says All JO on Jet Are Dead.

The article reports on the confirmation by Russia's aviation authorities that Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group who staged an aborted mutiny against the country's military leadership in June 2023, was among the passengers on a plane that crashed in Russia on August 23, 2023, killing everyone on board. Cited are the comment of U.S. President Joe Biden to speculations that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the crash, and the uncertainty around the crash.