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- Russia's Investigative Committee said it had confirmed the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin.
- The founder of the mercenary group Wagner was on board a plane crash that crashed on Wednesday.
- The statement did not offer any explanation as to why the plane had crashed.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russian mercenary group Wagner and the leader of a failed coup against Vladimir Putin, has been confirmed dead following a plane crash this week.
Russia's Investigative Committee said Sunday forensic testing identified Prigozhin as among 10 people killed when the Embraer Legacy 600 jet they were on went down in the Tver region near Moscow on Wednesday.