US has not seen indications a missile downed Prigozhin's plane, officials say

oren liebermann jim sciutto katie bo lillis alex marquardt
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The US has not seen indications that a missile downed the airplane Russian authorities say was carrying Wagner founder Yevgheny Prigozhin, according to four US officials.

The US intelligence community is still in the early stages of assessing what may have caused the private jet to crash outside Moscow on Wednesday.

Another source familiar with the western intelligence echoed the US officials, saying there was no indication a missile was launched.

Officials said the US had not seen any information to indicate that the Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft was struck by either a surface-to-air missile, which would be launched from a Russian aerial

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