Wagner boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s body was allegedly identified by a partially missing finger after being pulled from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Tver region of Russia,’ with reports suggesting a ‘bomb’ onboard was to blame.
Prigozhin received the injury to his left hand while serving time in a penal colony, the Russian Telegram channel VChK-OGPU said.
It added a senior Wagner commander has identified the body from the injury, as well as identifying his second-in-command Dmitry Utkin from his tattoos.
It comes as a preliminary US intelligence assessment found the crash was caused by an intentional explosion, but the Pentagon says there is no evidence so far which points to a surface-to-air defence missile.
Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, offered no further details or evidence as he made his remarks at a Pentagon news conference.
