Kremlin Says DNA Tests Confirm Death of Wagner Leader Prigozhin
A preliminary American intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused Prigozhin’s plane to go down.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Sunday that it confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder and head of the mercenary force Wagner who led a short-lived armed rebellion against Russia’s military, was killed in a plane crash.
Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement that forensic and genetic testing identified all ten bodies recovered at the site of Wednesday’s crash and the findings “conform to the manifest” of the plane. The statement didn’t offer any details about what might have caused the crash.
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