普里戈任遇难！坠毁飞机乘客包括瓦格纳几乎所有高层

Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport confirmed on Wednesday that Wagner Group private military company's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in the Tver Region near Moscow.

A private Embraer plane en route from Moscow to St Petersburg crashed in the Tver Region on Wednesday, Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said, noting all the ten people on board were killed in the accident. Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the ten people who lost their lives in the crash.

An investigation had been launched into the cause of the plane crash in the Tver Region.

据白宫透露，美国总统拜登已知悉搭载普里戈津的飞机在俄罗斯坠毁的新闻。

US President Joe Biden has been briefed on reports that a plane reportedly carrying Prigozhin crashed in Russia, according to the White House press pool.

当被问及坠机事件时，拜登表示：“我不能确定发生了什么，但我并不感到意外。”拜登正在内华达州逗留，当他听到这个消息时，他正在进行体育锻炼。

"I don't know for a fact what happened but I'm not surprised," Biden said when asked about the crash. The president, staying in the state of Nevada for the day with no public events scheduled, said he was doing physical exercises when being told about the news.

美国国家安全委员会发言人阿德里安·沃森通过社交媒体X（原推特）表示：“我们已经看到了这些报道。如果得到确认，没有人应该感到意外。”

"We have seen the reports. If confirmed, no one should be surprised," US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said via her account on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.