Amid conflicting reports, AP sent an alert on the crash at 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time, then another one three hours later confirming that Prigozhin was on board the plane that crashed; other outlets ...

Russian authorities say mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane which crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, two months to the day after he led an abortive ...

Prigozhin was head of the Wagner private ... Putin, who said grenade fragments were found in the plane's wreckage, called him a "talented" man who had made "serious mistakes" after his death.