Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group who led a short-lived armed rebellion against Russia’s military, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week.
Russia’s aviation agency had previously published the names of all 10 people on board the private jet that crashed in the Tver region northwest of Moscow on Wednesday. They included Prigozhin, Dmitry Utkin, his right-hand man who helped found the Wagner group, and Wagner logistics mastermind Valery Chekalov.
“As part of the investigation of the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular-genetic examinations
