### [2023-08-23](/feed/2023/08/23/index.md)

##### 2023 Tver Oblast plane crash
# An Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft crashes in Tver Region, Russia, killing all ten people on board. The leader of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin and mercenary Dmitry Utkin were listed as passengers. 

The Russian private military company boss was on the passenger list of the jet which came down near Moscow.


### Sources:

1. [BBC News](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733) [Image](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3394/production/_130440231_0328da326f28731cd9d84adfff29b60da45c28e70_0_5120_28011000x547.jpg)

### Changes:

1. A plane crashes in Tver Region, Russia, killing all the ten people on board. Wagner Group's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and mercenary Dmitry Utkin were among the listed passengers.  _2023-08-23 22:04:18 (First version)_
1. An Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft crashes in Tver Region, Russia, killing all ten people on board. The leader of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin and mercenary Dmitry Utkin were listed as passengers.  _(Current version)_

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