Key Points
- Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, involved in a recent mutiny, listed on crashed jet’s passenger list.
- The jet was travelling from Moscow to St Petersburg when it went down near the village of Kuzhenkino.
- Russian investigators said they had opened a criminal investigation to determine what had happened.
Russia’s most powerful mercenary was on board a plane that crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, Russian authorities said, two months to the day after he led an abortive mutiny against the army top brass.
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