It is a terminally violent twist – perhaps to have been expected, but staggering nevertheless – to one of the most astonishing episodes in recent history. Yevgeny Prigozhin, who attempted a coup against Vladimir Putin, is reported to have been killed in a plane crash in Russia.
If the chief of the mercenary group, Wagner, was indeed among the 10 people to have died when the private jet went down in the Tver oblast near Moscow, then the immediate suspicion would be that this was an assassination by the Kremlin.
