Forensic analysis confirms death of Evgeniy Prigozhin. The sole woman on crashed plane was born in Kazakhstan
Russian authorities have concluded DNA analysis of the bodies of those who died due to the aircraft crash in the Tver oblast. Evgeniy Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner, was thought to be on board. The Investigative Committee of Russia declared all passengers dead.
What has DNA analysis shown?
«We have finished DNA analyses within the investigation into the plane crash in the Tver region. As a result, we have identified all ten individuals, who were supposed to be onboard and killed in the crash,» the agency said in a statement.
Who was the sole woman on the plane? According to the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya), along with the passengers, three members of the plane’s crew also died in the crash: Alexey Levin, commander of the aircraft, Rustam Karimov, pilot, and Kristina Yadrevskaya (Raspopova), flight attendant, who was born in Kazakhstan.
As the 74RU website reported, 39-year-old Kristina Yadrevskaya was the older sister of Evgeniy Raspopov, a deputy prosecutor of Emanzhelinsk, a town in the Chelyabinsk region.
According to the 74.RU website sources, siblings Kristina and Evgeniy were born in Kazakhstan. When Kristina grew up, she left for Moscow.
Later, she moved to Saint Petersburg and received a job at MNT Aero, an aviation company where she worked as a flight attendant at a private jet.
Who was with Prigozhin?Among the passengers of the business jet were Evgeniy Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner paramilitary group, Dmitry Utkin, the commander of Wagner, Sergey Propustin, Evgeniy Makaryan, Alexander Totmin (mercenaries), Vareliy Chekalov, general director of Neva and Nikolay Matuseev.
On August 24, the plane with Evgeniy Prigozhin on board crashed near the residence of President Vladimir Putin. This incident happened after two months of his mutiny in Russia.
Rosaviatsiya is investigating the incident with the Embraer aircraft.
«According to flightradar24, Embraer Legacy 600 with tail number RA-02795 was detected by radar in the area of Zelenograd at 6:00 p.m. while it was flying northwest (toward either Putin’s residence on Valdai or Saint Petersburg). Twelve minutes later, at 6:11 the aircraft fell off the map,» the media reported.
Rosaviatsiya noted that the country’s authorities authorized the plane’s flight.
