The White House said Monday it is "increasingly confident" the head of a notorious Russian private military company died when his private jet crashed outside of Moscow last week.
"We are increasingly confident that Prigozhin died in the plane crash that took place on August 23," spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
"I don’t have any new assessment on that for you, so I’ll just leave it there," she added.
Jean-Pierre’s comments come a day after the Russian Investigative Committee said genetic testing on the 10 bodies recovered at the crash site confirmed the identities of all of those listed on board the doomed flight – including Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants.
The Aug. 23 crash took place exactly two months after Prigozhin led an aborted mutiny against the Russian military that saw his forces overrun a key military installation in southern Russia before closing in on Moscow.
Prigozhin had long clashed with Russian military brass over what he said was a history of insufficient arms supplies as his Wagner forces attempted to take Ukrainian territory for the Kremlin.
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