The boss of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is thought to have been on a plane that has crashed near Moscow, killing 10 people onboard. Meanwhile, Ukraine says it has conducted a raid in Crimea with the help of its navy.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is reported to have died in a plane crash aged 62, was a former hot-dog seller and ex-convict who went on to become a billionaire restaurateur and “global Kremlin action man” running the so-called Wagner Group, a shadowy army of mercenaries, on behalf of the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
On August 23, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prighozhin was reported to be killed in a plane crash. Immediately, rumors swirled as to the nature of the crash.
The fate of Yevgeny V. Prigozhin is a reminder of all those who have paid a heavy price for standing up to President Vladimir V. Putin, and of how quickly people can fall from his favor.