Wagner's leader, Yevgueni Prigozhin, dies on Wednesday for an adventure on a private plane, explains the civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia. According to him, Embraer-135 traveled by plane and crashed in Kuzhenkino, 350 kilometres from Moscow.

In the aircraft there were a total of ten passengers, including the commander, the waiter and the second driver. In addition, the other seven passengers were members of Wagner, Prigozhin himself is the best known and also Dmitri Utkin, former Russian military. However, the corpses are still under investigation and in total have recovered eight bodies.

According to the Ukrainian RBC, the causes of the accident are being analysed, whether it is a driver error, a technical problem or an external intervention. Many Western states, including the United States, see the hand of Russia after the accident.