which had named mr prigozhin. the mercenary leader had led an aborted mutiny against the russian military injune amid growing tension with russian commanders over the war in ukraine. he d since relocated to belarus. in a statement released on telegram channel the spokeswoman of russia s investigative committee, svetlana petrenko, said genetic tests had established the identities of all those on board. translation: as part - of the investigation of the plane crash in the tver region molecular genetic examinations have been completed. according to their results, the identities of all ten dead were established, they correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet. bbc monitoring s russia editor vitaly shevchenko gave us the latest. this short announcement by russia s official investigations committee came as no surprise to anyone. yevgeny prigozhin and his right hand
led an aborted mutiny against the russian military injune amid growing tension with commanders over the war in ukraine. he had since relocated to belarus. in a statement released on telegram channel the spokeswoman of russia s investigative committee, svetlana petrenko, said genetic tests had established the identities of all those on board. as part of the investigation of the plane crash in the tver region, molecular genetic examinations have been completed according to their results. the identities of all ten dead were established. they correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet. let s go live now to our security correspondent frank gardner. how certain can we be about what the russian authorities say they have confirmed? i russian authorities say they have confirmed? russian authorities say they have confirmed? ~ , ., , , , confirmed? i think this largely puts the nail in the