US says it’s ‘likely’ Prigozhin was killed in Wednesday’s plane crash
CNNCNN — The US believes Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was “likely” killed in a plane crash outside Moscow on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesman Brig. “I’m not going to go into the specifics of how we gather information other than again, our initial assessment, based on a variety of factors, is that he was likely killed,” Ryder said. Ryder also said that the Pentagon “doesn’t have any information to indicate right now” that the plane Prigozhin was on was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. He said had known Prigozhin since the early 90s and that he was a “talented businessman.” “He was a man of difficult fate, and he made serious mistakes in life,” Putin said during a meeting with the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the Kremlin.