Pentagon: US considers Prigozhin probably dead

Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder announced at a briefing that, according to preliminary estimates by the US defense department, Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin probably died in a plane crash.

Ryder commented on the issue of the version spread in the Western media that the business jet with Prigozhin was allegedly shot down by a rocket from the ground.

“There is nothing to indicate that it was a surface-to-air missile,” a Pentagon spokesman said.

Recall that a private plane Embraer Legacy crashed on Wednesday in the Tver region. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, among the passengers were Yevgeny Prigozhin, Dmitry Utkin and other commanders of the Wagner PMC.