evgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed lifeless following DNA assessments, Russia’s investigative committee has stated.

After what it referred to as genetic examinations, the commitee idetified the 10 people named on board the Wagner boss’ private plane.

"As part of the criminal investigation of the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular genetic examinations have been completed," an announcement learn.

"According to their results, the identities of all 10 dead were established, they correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet."

Dmitry Utkin, who managed Wagner's navy operations, was additionally on the aircraft together with different Wagner members Valery Chekalov, Sergei Propustin, Yevgeny Makaryan, Alexander Totmin and Nikolay Matuseyev.

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Pilot Alexei Levshin and co-pilot Rustam Karimov, and there was one flight attendant, Kristina Raspopova have been the opposite remaining casualties.

Details of the check haven't been shared.

The crash came two months to the day after Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries staged a mutiny against Russian military commanders in which they took control of a southern city, Rostov, and advanced towards Moscow before turning around 200 kilometres from the capital.

Vladimir Putin described the June 23-24 mutiny as a treacherous “stab in the back”, however later met with Prigozhin within the Kremlin whose forces have been relocated to Belarus.

Putin has since ordered Wagner fighters to signal an oath of allegiance to the Russian state following the aircraft crash.

Some Western specialists consider that Putin might have ordered the crash in an assassination of Prigozhin after he led a latest mutiny in opposition to Russia’s navy.

US President Joe Biden has already stated that there's little that occurs in Russia that Putin is just not behind and the previous MI6 boss Sir John Sawers stated it appeared that the Russian chief had ordered the strike.

“All the indications point to the fact that Putin has taken him out… he is making clear to everyone both inside Russia and outside that he’s not going to brook any challenge,” Sir John stated.

“I would have thought there was some device on board that brought the plane down suddenly and killed all those on board. It was a way of taking out the entire Wagner leadership in one go.”