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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont

What we know about Prigozhin’s ‘last flight’ – a visual guide

TELEGRAM/ @grey_zone/AFP via Getty Images
A plane falling from the sky near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region. Photograph: TELEGRAM/@grey_zone/AFP/Getty Images

The aircraft on which Yevgeny Prigozhin was travelling had long been linked with the Wagner group. An Embraer Legacy 600 jet, the flight tracking service FlightRadar identified it as being in regular use in recent months, flying from both St Petersburg and Moscow.

According to some reports, the Wagner party on board had been attending a meeting with officials from Russia’s defence ministry.

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