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Options for the mercenary group – in the wake of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s reported death in a plane crash – include complete dissolution, nationalisation into the conventional Russian army or finding a new leader. Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold the key to the future

The Wagner Group leader was listed as a passenger of a plane that crashed on Wednesday, but his death is unconfirmed.

Alternative theories abound, fuelled by his reappearance after being reported killed in a 2019 plane crash in Africa

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Joe Biden ‘not surprised’ by apparent death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner founder, in plane crash, while Kremlin and Russian president stay silent

The Wagner boss was listed as a passenger on the private jet, but the Kremlin has not confirmed his death.

Wagner mercenaries were on Thursday reported to be trying to head back into Russia after threatening retaliation over the suspected killing of their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash on the orders of Vladimir Putin.

Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose death was announced by Russia following a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confidant catapulted to infamy by Russia's offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia's capital.

The plane crash that presumably killed Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin restored Vladimir Putin’s reputation as Russia’s unchallengeable leader for many of the country’s elite, even as the cause of the disaster may never be fully established.

Perhaps the most unexpected thing about the plane crash that reportedly killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the bombastic head of Russia’s infamous Wagner group, is that it happened a full two months after he brought Russia to what President Vladimir Putin warned at the time was the brink of civil war.