Confirmation also came from Moscow: Yevgeny Prigozhin, commander of the Wagner Brigade, was on board the plane that crashed to the ground yesterday in an uninhabited area, while it was flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg. This was reported by Rosaviatsia, the Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport.
On the aircraft, together with the head of the mercenary group who attempted a march against the Kremlin for two months, were also his right-hand man, Dmitry Utkin, Valery Chekalov, a former businessman, associated with Prigozhin's commercial structures and presumed head of the service militia security guard, and other members of Wagner, Yevgeny Makaryan, Alexander Totmin, who allegedly fought in Sudan, Sergei Propustin, grenade thrower, and Nikolai Matuseyev, about whom we have no information.
The bodies, explain the Russian emergency services, have been "found and reassembled", say the emergency services.
The news quickly went around the world. “Nothing happens in Russia without Putin being behind it,” commented US President Joe Biden.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni renews Italy's support for Ukraine: "Without hesitation alongside Kiev".
(Unioneonline/lf)