{"id":2010965,"date":"2023-08-24T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-bosss-plane-was-deliberately-downed-us-officials-believe\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:20:03","slug":"wagner-bosss-plane-was-deliberately-downed-us-officials-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-bosss-plane-was-deliberately-downed-us-officials-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"US Officials Suspect Wagner Boss&#8217;s Plane Was Intentionally Brought Down."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwagner-bosss-plane-was-deliberately-downed-us-officials-believe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2010965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>Breaking News: Plane Crash Linked to Mercenary Leader<\/h2>\n<h3>Emergency specialists carry a body bag near wreckages of the \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kerry-family-private-jet-has-taken-sixteen-flights-in-seven-months\/\" title=\"Kerry Family Private Jet Has Taken Sixteen Flights In Seven Months\">private jet linked<\/a> to Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin \u200cat the crash site\u200d in the Tver region, Russia, August 24, 2023. (Reuters)<\/h3>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-will-revive-remain-in-mexico-this-week\/\" title=\"DHS Will Revive \u2018Remain in Mexico\u2019 this Week\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">officials told<\/a> media outlets<\/a> on Thursday\u2062 that they believe the plane presumed to be carrying \u2063mercenary leader Yevgeny<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> Prigozhin was deliberately taken down<\/span>, though there was some disagreement as to \u200dhow exactly the plane was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Russian air authorities have said<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> \u200bPrigozhin<\/span>, his right-hand \u200cman Dmitry Utkin, and eight other people were on the private plane that crashed with no survivors north of Moscow on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Two U.S. officials, \u2062speaking on the \u2063condition of anonymity, told Reuters that it was likely a surface-to-air missile originating from inside Russia shot down the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The officials stressed that the information was still preliminary and under review, and did not rule out a \u2063change to the assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c <em>Wall Street \u200bJournal<\/em> \u2064 on \u2064Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia\/wagner-prigozhin-russia-assassinated-intelligence-3e456fab\">reported<\/a> a different theory: Officials told the\u200c outlet a bomb aboard the aircraft or some other sabotage caused the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New \u2062York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/08\/24\/world\/prigozhin-russia-ukraine-news#plane-crash-prigozhin-explosion\">reported<\/a> a\u2064 similar assessment from U.S.\u200b and Western officials, who said the leading theory\u2062 is that an explosion\u200b on board the plane took it down. They said the explosion could have been caused by a bomb planted on the plane \u200cor by adulterated \u2063fuel.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2064 is not uncommon for there to be competing,\u2062 even contradictory, intelligence views in the\u2064 U.S. government\u2063 in the hours and days after major international events.<\/p>\n<p>A third U.S. official told Reuters that there were a number of theories and no definitive conclusion had been reached.<\/p>\n<p>The crash came two months to the day after<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> Prigozhin <\/span>and his\u200b Wagner mercenaries staged a mutiny in which they took control of a southern city and advanced toward Moscow, shooting down\u2063 a number of Russian Air Force planes and killing their pilots.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe\u2062 Biden on Wednesday said \u2063he was not \u2063surprised by reports \u200dthat<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> Prigozhin <\/span>had died in a plane crash, adding\u2064 that not much\u200b happens in Russia that President Vladimir\u200b Putin was not behind.<\/p>\n<p>Putin on Thursday said he wished \u200cto express sincere condolences to the families of those who died in the crash and said it was necessary to await the outcome of \u200cthe official investigation.<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> \u200b Prigozhin<\/span>, 62, head of the Wagner mercenary group, frequently criticized the Russian \u2063army \u2064top brass over what he said was its incompetent execution of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Embraer executive jet model that crashed in Russia \u2062had only recorded one accident in more than 20 years of service, and that was not related to mechanical failure.<\/p>\n<p>While portraying it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-bosss-plane-was-deliberately-downed-us-officials-believe\/\" title=\"US Officials Suspect Wagner Boss's Plane Was Intentionally Brought Down.\">purely private commercial operation<\/a>,\u2064 the Kremlin has used Wagner \u200dto expand Russian influence on the continent in competition with Western powers such as\u2063 France and the United States.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Prigozhin <\/span>and a Russian company he controlled were \u2063indicted in 2018 and accused of funding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-media-outlets-continue-to-receive-millions-from-chinese-propaganda-front\/\" title=\"Major Media Outlets Continue To Receive Millions From Chinese Propaganda Front\">propaganda operation<\/a> to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to sway \u200dit\u2063 in favor of Republican candidate Donald Trump and to disparage rival Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting \u200cby Phil Stewart and Idrees AliEditing by Alistair Bell)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency specialists transport a body bag near the wreckage of a private jet connected to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary chief, at the crash site in Russia&#8217;s Tver region on August 24, 2023. 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