On 23 August 2023, an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with ten people on board crashed near Kuzhenkino in Tver Oblast, approximately 100 kilometers north of its departure point in Moscow. Among the vi
RA-02795, the aircraft involved, pictured in 2022
Putin's right-hand man Nikolai Patrushev (left) is believed to have orchestrated the assassination of Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Makeshift memorial to Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin in Moscow
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Wagner Group rebellion
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On 23 June 2023, the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, staged an uprising against the Russian government. It marked the climax of the Wagner Group–Ministry of Defense conflict, which h
2023 Wagner Group plane crash
…company. The crash prompted speculation that the jet was destroyed on the orders of Russian president Vladimir Putin, after Prigozhin had led the Wagner Group rebellion exactly two months prior. Tracking data from Flightradar24 showed unusual altitude variations followed by a "dramatic descent" shortly before the plane…
Yevgeny Prigozhin in Ulyanovsk on 13 June 2023
A graveyard for dead Wagner fighters in Tyumen, Russia. Prigozhin claimed the Ministry of Defence's mismanagement led to tens of thousands of Wagner deaths in Bakhmut.
A crowd in Rostov-on-Don watching a Wagner tank with flowers sticking out of its muzzle
Yunus-bek Yevkurov in 2024