{"id":97273,"date":"2023-08-27T12:43:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/?p=97273"},"modified":"2023-08-27T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:43:26","slug":"wagner-boss-confirmed-dead-after-genetic-test-of-plane-crash-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/world-news\/wagner-boss-confirmed-dead-after-genetic-test-of-plane-crash-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner boss confirmed dead after genetic test of plane crash bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;Genetic tests&#8217; confirm that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was among 10 people killed in plane crash, Russian investigators say<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Russian officials said they have confirmed Prigozhin&#8217;s death via genetic tests<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Prigozhin died two months after launching a failed coup against Vladimir Putin\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in Wednesday&#8217;s plane crash, Russian officials have said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee said the identities of all 10 victims had been established and corresponded to those on the flight&#8217;s passenger list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As part of the investigation of the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular-genetic examinations have been completed,&#8217; Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for the committee, said in a statement via Telegram on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;According to their results, the identities of all 10 dead were established. They correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Further details on the tests have not been shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin&#8217;s private jet came down north-west of Moscow on 25 August, killing all those on board.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/27\/12\/74766979-12450367-image-a-9_1693135848971.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in Wednesday&#8217;s plane crash, Russian officials have said<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/27\/13\/74767501-12450367-image-a-10_1693137840752.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A private Embraer Legacy place crashed while on its way from Moscow to St Petersburg, killing all seven passengers and three crew members onboard<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/27\/13\/74767577-12450367-image-a-11_1693138288329.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The passengers, made up of the Wagner group&#8217;s top brass were reportedly attending a meeting with officials from Russia&#8217;s defence ministry<\/p>\n<h3>What is the Wagner Group?<\/h3>\n<p>Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner is a mercenary group that was headed up by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For years\u00a0 the mercenary group acted as Putin&#8217;s personal band of enforcers.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2014 by a sinister former lieutenant colonel of Russia&#8217;s &#8216;Spetsnaz&#8217; special forces, Dmitry Utkin, Wagner got straight to work following the annexation of Crimea, arming and organising separatist groups in the Donbas region of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/27\/13\/65048133-12450367-Wagner_group_insignia_is_pictured-a-12_1693138435151.jpg\" height=\"126\" width=\"128\"><\/p>\n<p>Wagner group insignia (pictured)<\/p>\n<p>In the eight years between Crimea&#8217;s annexation and all-out war in Ukraine, Wagner mercs have been deployed abroad to covertly further Russian interests.<\/p>\n<p>A Telegram channel affiliated with Wagner said on Wednesday that its leader had died in a plane crash at the hands of unidentified &#8216;traitors to Russia.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Reports stated that a private Embraer Legacy place crashed while on its way from Moscow to St Petersburg, killing all seven passengers and three crew members onboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>The passengers, made up of the Wagner group&#8217;s top brass, including Prigozhin&#8217;s right-hand man Dmitry Utkin and Valeriy Chekalov, Wagner\u2019s logistics mastermind, were reportedly attending a meeting with officials from Russia&#8217;s defence ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin spoke of his former ally in the past tense just one day after he died and before Russian officials investigated his death, saying: &#8216;This was a person with a complicated fate. He made some serious mistakes in life, but he also achieved necessary results.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has denied speculation it was to blame for the crash, which came just two months after Prigozhin led a column of his Wagner soldiers towards Moscow in an attempted mutiny against Vladimir Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wagner managed to seize the city of Rostov-on-Don during the shock coup and threatened to take Moscow itself over.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin and his mercenary group were sent to Belarus after a deal was reached, which was brokered by Belarus&#8217; president Alexander Lukashenko, that allowed him to walk away without any charges against his name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin kept a low profile after this, but was spotted in several locations across the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from All Eyes on Wagner, which monitors the mercenary group, said that a video shared via Telegram on August 21, just two days before Prigozhin died, revealed he was in Mali.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was seen wearing military fatigues and wielding an assault rifle, claiming he was in the region to recruit &#8216;heroic warriors&#8217; that would make Russia &#8216;even greater.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the brokered deal, Putin openly called the mutiny a &#8216;stab in the back&#8217;, and many across the world have accused the autocrat of engineering the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US president Joe Biden said he was not surprised to learn of Prigozhin&#8217;s death, adding: &#8216;There is not much that happens in Russia that Putin is not behind, but I don\u2019t know enough to know the answer.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He previously joked that if he were Prigozhin, &#8216;I\u2019d be careful what I ate. I\u2019d be keeping my eye on my menu.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that claims of the Russian states&#8217;s involvement with the mercenary leader&#8217;s death were an &#8216;absolute lie&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov declined to comment on whether Putin would attend Prigozhin&#8217;s funeral, simply stating: &#8216;The only thing I can say is that the president has a rather busy schedule at the moment.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The fate of the Wagner group is not currently known, and many interested groups are speculating over what will happen to the private military company, set up in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Putin forced Wagner fighters to swear an oath of allegiance to Russia just a few day after reports of their leader&#8217;s death had emerged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The wording of the oath includes a line forcing oath-takers to strictly follow the orders of commanders and senior Russian leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>More to follow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/breaking_news\/article-12450367\/Genetic-tests-confirm-Wagner-chief-Yevgeny-Prigozhin-10-people-killed-plane-crash-Russian-investigators-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Genetic tests&#8217; 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