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Kremlin hints Yevgeny Prigozhin may have been assassinated and his plane downed on purpose

By Barnini Chakraborty
Published August 30, 2023 3:42pm ET
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Kremlin hints Yevgeny Prigozhin may have been assassinated and his plane downed on purpose
In this handout photo taken from video released by Prigozhin Press Service on Friday, March 3, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, addresses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asking him to withdraw the remaining Ukrainian forces from Bakhmut. | (Prigozhin Press Service via AP, File)

The Kremlin acknowledged on Wednesday that the plane carrying Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin may have been downed on purpose but stopped short of allowing international investigators to probe the crash and alleged assassination. 

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kremlin Plane Crashes Russia Russia-Ukraine War Vladimir Putin Yevgeny Prigozhin