Russian President Vladimir Putin has made his first public comments since the plane crash that apparently killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, as US intelligence begins to probe the crash's cause. Follow live updates here.
From CNN's Oren Liebermann, Jim Sciutto, Katie Bo Lillis and Alex Marquardtwas “likely” killed in a plane crash outside Moscow on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said Thursday.
Ryder also said the Pentagon “doesn’t have any information to indicate right now” that the plane Prigozhin was on was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. The US intelligence community is still in the early stages of assessing the cause of the crash. Officials cautioned that it’s too early to draw any conclusions, but a number of possibilities are being evaluated, including an on-board explosion causing the crash.
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