The Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsiya)  reported that Russian Armenian Evgeniy Makaryan also was in the crashed plane together with Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

As the agency reported, according to the airline, the following passengers were on the plane: Sergey Propustin, Evgeniy Makaryan, Aleksandr Totmin, Valeriy Chekalov, Dmitriy Utkin, Nikolay Matuseev and Yevgeny Prigozhin.

And the crew was identified as Commander Aleksei Levshin, co-pilot Rustam Karimov, and flight attendant Kristina Raspopova.

The flight of the Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ) plane was being conducted on the basis of permission to use the airspace, issued in the prescribed manner.

A private plane crashed Wednesday in Tver Region of Russia. It was en route from Moscow to Saint Petersburg. There were 10 people on board, including Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.