Friday Briefing: U.S. Believes Prigozhin Was Killed

‘It’s likely Prigozhin was killed,’ Pentagon says

U.S. and other Western officials said that preliminary intelligence reports led them to believe that an explosion on board a plane linked to the Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin likely brought down the aircraft on Wednesday, killing all the passengers aboard. The Pentagon openly said yesterday that “it’s likely Prigozhin was killed.”

U.S. and Western officials said the blast could have been caused by a bomb or other…