Wagner chief Prigozhin was assassinated but not by missile: US officials

Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was assassinated while flying in his private jet from Moscow to St. Petersburg — but it doesn’t appear that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, according to US officials.

Preliminary information gathered by the US government, which was still being reviewed, suggested that either a bomb went off aboard the Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet mid-flight, or the aircraft was the target of another form of sabotage, reported the Wall Street Journal.