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US officials reportedly point finger at Russian surface-to-air missile in Wagner plane crash
This image released by Ostorozhno Novosti on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, shows the crash site of a private jet near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver Region. (Ostorozhno Novosti via AP)
Two US officials tell the Reuters news agency that they believe a surface-to-air missile fired inside Russia took down the plane carrying Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin yesterday.
The officials stress to the news site that the information is still preliminary and their probe is ongoing.
Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants are presumed dead in a plane crash that is widely seen as an assassination to avenge a mutiny that challenged President Vladimir Putin earlier this year.
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