The plane was flying from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, where Wagner\u2019s headquarters are based
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\nA day after a plane crash that presumably killed Russia\u2019s infamous mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and all other nine people on board, Russian President Vladimir was still silent on the incident on Thursday.
\nThe crash on Wednesday evening took place exactly two months after Prigozhin led a rebellion against Moscow\u2019s top military brass, in the biggest threat to Putin\u2019s long rule.
\nMoscow opened a probe into violations of air traffic rules but investigators have been mute since, and speculation of a possible assassination is rife.
\nUkraine denied involvement, with President Volodymyr Zelensky saying: \u201cWe have nothing to do with this situation, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d
\n\u201cI think everyone knows who this concerns,\u201d Zelensky said, in an apparent reference to Putin.
\nMoscow had still not officially confirmed the death of the 62-year-old warlord, saying only that he was listed as a passenger on the flight.
\nDuring the Wagner rebellion on June 23-24, Putin gave an address to Russians in which he called Prigozhin — once his ally — a \u201ctraitor\u201d, and warned against \u201ccivil war\u201d.
\nPrigozhin had spent months launching scathing attacks on the way Moscow led its Ukraine offensive before his 48-hour mutiny shook Putin\u2019s rule.
\nMany were surprised when Moscow then dropped charges against Prigozhin and allowed him to go into exile in Belarus.
\nSome Western leaders questioned if the crash was an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The plane was flying from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, where Wagner\u2019s headquarters are based Moscow A day after a plane crash that presumably killed Russia\u2019s infamous mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and all other nine people on board, Russian President Vladimir was still silent on the incident on Thursday. The crash on Wednesday evening took place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n