Early Intelligence Suggests Prigozhin Was Assassinated, U.S. Officials Say

https://www.wsj.com ^ | Aug. 24, 2023 | Michael Gordon, Warren Strobel, Matthew Luxmoore, Alan Cullison

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Preliminary findings indicate it wasn’t surface-to-air missile that took down Wagner leader’s plane.

The plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, crashed as the result of an assassination plot but wasn’t shot down by a surface-to-air missile, U.S. officials said.

The preliminary U.S. government assessments, which officials stressed are incomplete, suggest that a bomb exploded on the aircraft or that some other form of sabotage caused the crash northwest of Moscow.

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