Yevgeny Prigozhin
7 Sep 2023
The Russian government would not be in a hurry to find out what really killed the Wagner Group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, whether it was a fortuitous accident or an act of sabotage.
1 Sep 2023
Wagner Group chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin alluded to threats to his safety in a video which appears to have been filmed days before he died in a plane crash.
30 Aug 2023
The Kremlin said Wednesday that investigators were probing all possible scenarios surrounding the death last week of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash, including premeditated murder. Prigozhin, 62, was buried on Tuesday in a private ceremony in his native Saint Petersburg, more than two months after he staged a short-lived mutiny that posed…
29 Aug 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not go to the funeral of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died last week in a plane crash, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
27 Aug 2023
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was formally confirmed dead on Sunday following genetic analysis, investigators said, as anger and questions over what caused his plane to crash earlier in the week continued to mount. Speculation that the Kremlin may have been involved in the crash has been rife, with the incident coming exactly two months…
25 Aug 2023
The Kremlin rejected Friday rumours that it had ordered the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, presumed to have died in a plane crash two months after leading a mutiny in Russia.
25 Aug 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin broke his silence Thursday on the plane crash a day earlier that reportedly killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior members of the Wagner paramilitary group.
24 Aug 2023
The presumed death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin does not improve regional security, Lithuania's president said Thursday, adding that fighters from the Russian mercenary group remained in Ukraine's neighbour Belarus.
24 Aug 2023
Wagner Group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in Russia's Tver region yesterday without survivors, according to the press service of Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency. Ten people were killed...
23 Aug 2023
Russian state-run news agencies on Wednesday said that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group that led a mutiny against Russia's army in June, was on the list of passengers of a plane that crashed.
21 Jul 2023
Head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said his men will continue to fight in African countries, where they are already present.
26 Jun 2023
An attempted armed mutiny in Russia shows "real cracks" in President Vladimir Putin's authority, America's top diplomat, Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said. He told U.S. media yesterday that Saturday's rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner fighters was a "direct challenge" to Putin, forcing him into an amnesty agreement.
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