{"id":2014440,"date":"2023-08-28T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-white-house-increasingly-confident-wagner-chief-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T19:37:43","slug":"prigozhin-plane-crash-white-house-increasingly-confident-wagner-chief-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-white-house-increasingly-confident-wagner-chief-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"White House believes Wagner leader died in Prigozhin plane crash."},"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%2Fprigozhin-plane-crash-white-house-increasingly-confident-wagner-chief-is-dead%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=2014440&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--><h2>The White House &#8220;Increasingly Confident&#8221; in\u2064 Yevgeny Prigozhin&#8217;s Death<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2063White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/\" title=\"Media Say Biden's Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now\">press secretary<\/a>,\u200c Karine Jean-Pierre, announced on Monday that they are\u2062 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wallstreetbets-keith-gill-testifies-over-gamestop-saga-what-i-did-no-different-than-discussing-stock-at-a-bar\/\" title=\"WallStreetBets\u2019 Keith Gill Testifies Over GameStop Saga: What I Did No Different Than Discussing Stock At A Bar\">increasingly confident<\/a>&#8220;\u2062 in the death of\u200d Yevgeny Prigozhin, the\u2062 founder of Wagner Group.\u2063 Prigozhin was reportedly on a business jet that crashed in \u200cthe Tver region while traveling from Moscow \u2062to St. Petersburg. Russian \u200dauthorities confirmed his presence through DNA testing.<\/p>\n<h3>Early Assessment\u2062 Points to Prigozhin&#8217;s Death<\/h3>\n<p>Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon&#8217;s press secretary, stated that their initial\u2063 assessment suggests Prigozhin was killed in the plane\u2062 crash. However, he clarified that the reports of\u2063 a surface-to-air missile causing the crash were inaccurate. The \u200cDepartment \u200bof\u200d Defense continues to evaluate the situation.<\/p>\n<h3>Kremlin Denies Responsibility<\/h3>\n<p>The Kremlin denied any involvement in sabotaging the plane. Russian President Vladimir Putin \u2064expressed his condolences to \u200dthe families of the victims but did not assign \u2064blame to Ukraine or any other party. It remains uncertain whether the events are \u200cconnected.<\/p>\n<h3>Prigozhin&#8217;s Revolt and Accusations<\/h3>\n<p>In June, Prigozhin\u200b led a brief revolt against Russian\u2064 defense leaders, accusing them of wrongdoing and deception regarding the war \u2064in Ukraine. Belarusian\u200b leader Alexander Lukashenko claimed to \u200bhave mediated an agreement to prevent further escalation. The circumstances surrounding\u2063 Prigozhin&#8217;s death\u2063 have raised \u200bspeculation about Putin&#8217;s potential involvement,\u200c given the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-white-house-increasingly-confident-wagner-chief-is-dead\/\" title=\"White House believes Wagner leader died in Prigozhin plane crash.\">critics meeting unfortunate fates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here\u2062 to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House believes Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner Group, died in a plane crash. Russian officials confirm he was on the passenger list of a business jet traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The incident occurred last week, and the White House expresses growing confidence in this assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2014441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}