Early Intelligence Suggests Prigozhin Was Assassinated, U.S. Officials Say

A small memorial was set up in St. Petersburg after Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses described the moment the plane came down.
The plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, crashed as the result of an assassination plot but wasn’t shot down by a surface-to-air missile, U.S. officials said.