Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the plane of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner military group, crashed due to the explosion of hand grenades inside the plane and that it was not a missile attack.

The channel associated with the Wagner group warned Moscow by publishing an old video of Yevgeny Prigogine that they would conquer the Kremlin if Prigogine's death was confirmed.

President Vladimir Putin held Kremlin talks with Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin days after denouncing an armed mutiny he had led as treasonous.