{"id":599839,"date":"2023-08-28T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T03:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=599839"},"modified":"2023-08-28T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T04:17:52","slug":"wagner-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-confirmed-dead-in-plane-crash-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wagner-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-confirmed-dead-in-plane-crash-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead in plane crash: Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee said Sunday that it confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder and head of the mercenary force Wagner who led a short-lived armed rebellion against Russia&#8217;s military, was killed in a plane crash. <\/p>\n<p>Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement that forensic and genetic testing identified all 10 bodies recovered at the site of Wednesday&#8217;s crash and the findings conform to the manifest of the plane. <\/p>\n<p>The statement didn&#8217;t offer any details about what might have caused the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s civil aviation authority earlier this week said Prigozhin, 62, and some of his top lieutenants were on the list of the passengers and crew members on board the plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee said Sunday that it confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder and head of the mercenary force Wagner who led a short-lived armed rebellion against Russia&#8217;s military, was killed in a plane crash. Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement that forensic and genetic testing identified all 10 bodies recovered at the site of Wednesday&#8217;s crash and the findings conform to the manifest of the plane. The statement didn&#8217;t offer any details about what might have caused the crash. Russia&#8217;s civil aviation authority earlier this week said Prigozhin, 62, and some of his top lieutenants were on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}