Evening Edition: Putin's Murderous Mercenary Leader Killed In Plane Crash

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Russia's civil aviation authority has said a plane carrying the Wagner mercenary group leader, Yevegny Prigozhin, crashed soon after taking off from Moscow killing all onboard. The cause of the crash has not been confirmed and today, Putin made his first comments about the plane crash and his once close associate. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Trey Yingst, FOX News Foreign Correspondent, about the murky details of the crash and what this means for the future of the mercenary group's operations. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stuart Vonning.
0:01.0	I'm Harris Faulkner.
0:02.0	I'm Brian Kilmeade, and this is The Fox News rundown.
0:07.0	Thursday, August 24th, 2023, I'm Evan Brown.
0:13.8	The leader of the infamous Wagner Group, who might have tried overthrowing Russia's
0:18.0	president, is presumed killed in a plane crash in Russia.
0:22.6	But was it an accident?
0:24.8	Few think so.
0:25.8	All indications point to the fact that he was indeed killed in the crash, and it would
0:30.3	make sense that a man who tried to take down the Russian leader was taken down himself.
0:35.5	This is The Fox News rundown, an evening edition.
0:45.7	I'm Ben Dominic, Fox News contributor and editor of the Transome.com Daily Newsletter.
0:50.5	And I'm inviting you to join a conversation every week.
0:53.3	It's The Ben Dominic Podcast.
0:55.0	Subscribe and listen now by going to FoxNewsPodcasts.com.
0:59.3	If Guinea Pergotian was once never far from Vladimir Putin's side, the leader of the
1:04.0	Wagner Group of mercenaries fighting Russia's war in Ukraine, was once the man trusted
1:09.0	with Putin's food, but that relationship soured, and what appeared to be an attempted
1:14.0	coup by Pergotian ended quickly and without explanation.
1:18.2	And now Pergotian is dead, his private airplane crashed.
1:22.2	It spoke about it on TV.
1:25.6	As for this plane crash, first of all, I want to express the words of sincere condolence
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