00:00 The head of Russia`s Wagner Group, Yevgeny Progozhin, is presumed dead after a business
00:06 jet crashed. The plane`s report to have come down on its way from Moscow to St. Petersburg,
00:11 where the private military company he headed is based. It crashed in the Tver region. Ten
00:17 people were on board, including seven passengers.
00:20 Ross Aviatsiya, the national aviation regulator, says all those on board were killed. According
00:26 to its records, Yevgeny Progozhin`s name was on the passenger list. It`s exactly two months
00:31 since the start of the Wagner Group`s mutiny, when its troops, including convicts free to
00:35 fight in Ukraine, advanced on Moscow following frequent attacks on the handling of the war
00:40 by Progozhin himself.
00:42 A former prisoner himself, Progozhin was nicknamed Putin`s chef after setting up a catering company.
00:48 Wagner`s role expanded to include the supply of mercenaries or deniable soldiers to conflicts
00:53 in Syria and Africa. They`ve since been in Belarus.
00:56 [WHOOSH]
