Yevgeny Prigozhin's death.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Yevgeny Prigozhin's death. On Sunday, Russian authorities confirmed the death of Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in Russia on Wednesday. Foreign news agencies had struggled to confirm that he was on the plane and that all passengers aboard it had been killed, but those questions now appear to be resolved, after the Russian Investigative Committee performed genetic testing on 10 bodies recovered from the crash to confirm the passenger list.
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| 1:00.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about Yvgeny Pergoshin, the former chief of the Wagner mercenary group who died in a mysterious plane crash last week. |
| 1:14.3 | Maybe not as mysterious as it sounds. We're going to talk about exactly what happened, what we |
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| 1:24.6 | also a couple of opinions from abroad. |
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