Moscow says Wagner boss Prigozhin confirmed dead in plane crash
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | That 56 seconds, it took me to swim that gold medal when I looked for that feeling for 30 years and I never found it. |
| 0:12.0 | A podcast about the people behind the medals. On the podium from the BBC World Service, find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:23.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Gareth Barlow, and in the early hours of Monday, the 28th of August, these are our main stories. |
| 0:34.0 | Russian officials say genetic tests have confirmed that the Wagner-Mercery Boss, Yavgeny Progozion, was killed in a plane crash earlier this week. |
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| 1:28.0 | It's been confirmed that Yavgeny Progozion, the chief of the Wagner-Mercery group, died when his plane crashed on Wednesday. |
| 1:35.0 | On Sunday, Russian investigators said they'd identified all the victims. |
| 1:39.0 | The plane, a private jet, crashed northwest of Moscow on the 23rd of August, killing all those on board. |
| 1:45.0 | It's still not known why the plane came down. |
| 1:48.0 | Our Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg reports. |
| 1:51.0 | The statement was brief, just three sentences. It didn't even mention the Wagner-Chief by name, but the implication was clear. |
| 1:59.0 | Here with the Russian authorities, apparently confirming the death of Yavgeny Progozion. |
| 2:05.0 | A spokesperson for Russia's investigative committee announced that genetic testing of bodies recovered from the crash site had been completed, |
| 2:16.0 | and that the identities of all 10 victims matched the names on the flight manifest. |
| 2:22.0 | That list of passengers and crew included Mr. Progozion and his right-hand man, Wagner Commander Dmitry Utkin, |
| 2:30.0 | the private jet on which they'd been traveling had crashed into a field 60 miles north of Moscow on Wednesday. |
| 2:37.0 | The cause of the crash is still unclear. There's been much speculation about a bomb, a missile, some kind of sabotage. |
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