After the Pentagon said yesterday that the Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was 'likely' killed in a plane crash, officials at the UK defence ministry have echoed that assessment.
Russia said this morning that Ukraine had fired a missile towards Moscow and attacked Crimea with 42 drones.
Nine drones were destroyed by air defence forces while 33 were suppressed by electronic warfare and crashed over Crimea without reaching their targets, it said. The update reads:"Exactly two months after the Wagner Group's mutiny, a Wagner-associated Embraer business jet crashed near Tver, between Moscow and St Petersburg. "There is not yet definitive proof that Prigozhin was onboard and he is known to exercise exceptional security measures. However, it is highly likely that he is indeed dead."
The fallout from the plane crash that apparently killed Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine others continues, with US intelligence saying an intentional explosion brought down the Wagner leader's jet. Ukrainian intelligence forces say they conducted a"special operation" in Crimea with the help of the navy; "It's like losing a father, he was everything to us" said one Prigozhin fan."Everyone was waiting to hear what uncle Zhenya would say."
Five hours away at the crash site near Tver, investigators were still picking their way through the remains."Now investigations are being carried out. This will take some time," President Putin said sagely. The plane was heading from Moscow to St Petersburg before it came down near the village of Kuzhenkino Tver.
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