Officially: Yevgeny Prigozhin died

Photo: Prigozhin plane/GettyImages/Global Images Ukraine

< pvk "Wagner" PVC head Evgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash in the Tver region.

It is reported that Dmytro Utkin, the right-hand man of the leader of the mercenaries, also crashed.

Yes, the list of passengers and crew members was made public of the Embraer – 135 (EBM-135BJ) aircraft.

According to the airline, the following passengers were on board:

• Serhiy Propustin – “Wagner” PVK action film;
• Yugen Makaryan – “Wagner” PVK action film;
• Olexander Totmin;
• Valery Chekalov – Deputy Prigozhin;
• Dmytro Utkin – commander of the “Wagner” PMC;
• Mykola Matuseev;
• Yugen Prigozhin – leader of the “Wagner” PMC.

And also crew members:

Oleksiy Levshin, commander;
Rustam Karimov, co-pilot;
Kristina Raspopova, flight attendant.

Also, the statement of Rosaviatsia states that the flight of the Embraer-135 "was carried out on the basis of a permit to use the airspace issued in accordance with the established procedure".

BAGNET reminds that on Wednesday, August 23, a video of a plane crash in the Tver region of Russia began to be widely distributed online. It was later revealed that it was an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with ten people on board. All of them died.

At the same time, Telegram channels spread information that the plane belongs to the founder of PVK "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin. He was allegedly considered a passenger.

Later it was reported that Prigozhin died in a plane crash.

Prepared by Serhii Daga