Wagner chief Prigozhin confirmed dead as ‘DNA found at crash site’

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed dead after specialists conducted genetic analysis on the bodies found in the private jet that crashed down on Wednesday evening, Russian officials have claimed.

Russia’s Investigative Committee issued a statement on Sunday saying all the 10 bodies recovered from the crash site had been identified. Their identities, the Committee said, “conform to the manifest”.

This comes after the Russian civil aviation agency released, just hours after the incident, the full list of passengers recorded to be on the private jet.

Alongside Mr Prigozhin and three crewmembers were also named Dmitry Utkin, the founder of Wagner Group, and Valery Chekalov, the mercenary troops’ logistics chief.

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