Mourners lay flowers for Wagner plane crash victims in Moscow

A makeshift floral tribute to Wagner plane crash victims in central Moscow grew bigger on Saturday (August 26) as Russians kept bringing flowers in memory of the Private military company (PMC) Wagner founders, Evgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin. Russia's aviation authority has said that Prigozhin was on board a private jet which crashed on Wednesday evening (August 23) northwest of Moscow with no survivors exactly two months after he led a failed mutiny against army chiefs. President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash on Thursday and spoke of Prigozhin in the past tense. After the deadly plane crash Putin has ordered Wagner fighters to sign an oath of allegiance to the Russian state. Read your updates here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/26/ukraine-russia-war-latest-crimea-putin-prigozhin/ #wagner #prigozhin #russia #moscow Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/subscribe/digitalsub/3for1/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_pvid_conversion-subscription_editorial-iniative_03-22_EGW-13_organic_youtube Get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.