Top Biden officials had previously warned that the Wagner chief could be killed off for his short-lived mutiny against Moscow.
"We have seen the reports. If confirmed, no one should be surprised," White House National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne WatsonEarlier in the day, Russian state media reported that Prigozhin was listed among the passengers on board a private plane that crashed on its way from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It is not immediately clear if the Wagner leader actually boarded the aircraft.
"We've seen the reports but have nothing to offer at this time," a Department of Defense spokesperson toldPrigozhin's fate has beensince he launched a mutiny against Russia's leadership in late June. The armed rebellion was short-lived and suddenly called off in a deal with the Kremlin that forced Prigozhin to Belarus and required his fighters to either sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry or join their leader in exile.
A screen grab captured from a video shared online shows Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian private security company Wagner, holding a rifle in a desert area while wearing camouflage in an unspecified location in Africa on August 21.
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