Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commander Dmitry Utkin were on board the plane that crashed north of Moscow, Russia’s civil aviation authority confirmed.
Eight bodies have so far been found at the crash site by the Russian emergency services, according to the RIA state news agency.
Seven passengers and three crew were on board the Embraer aircraft and were all killed, TASS news agency reported. The plane was heading from Moscow to St Petersburg.
Prigozhin, 62, and Wagner commander Utkin, 53, were among the passengers killed in the plane crash this evening, according to a Telegram channel affiliated with the Wagner Group.
Russia’s civil aviation authority also confirmed that the pair had been “on board” the jet.
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