People carry a body bag away from the wreckage of a crashed private jet, near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region, Russia, Thursday, August 24, 2023. Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, reportedly died when a private jet he was said to be on crashed on Aug. 23, 2023, killing all 10 people on board. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman reacts at an informal memorial next to the former “PMC Wagner Centre” in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, August 24, 2023. Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, reportedly died when a private jet he was said to be on crashed on Aug. 23, 2023, killing all 10 people on board. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Website of the Russian newspaper Kommersant and TV channel Rossiya 1 showing news that Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had reportedly been killed in a plane crash are displayed on phone and computer screens in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, August 24, 2023. World media speculates on Prigozhin's presumed death, as Russian state media shies away. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





In this pool photograph distributed by Sputnik agency, Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) reacts as he attends a meeting with members of the Alyosha T-80 tank crew in Moscow, on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool via AFP Photo)





A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal memorial next to the former 'PMC Wagner Centre' in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, August 24, 2023. Russia's civil aviation agency says mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A man lays flowers at an informal memorial next to the former “PMC Wagner Centre” in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, August 24, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Floral tributes are left for the Wagner group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in St Petersburg, Russia on August 24, 2023, who is presumed dead after a plane crash. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A view shows flags and a sledgehammer with the Wagner logo among flowers at a makeshift memorial near the former PMC Wagner Centre, associated with the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in Saint Petersburg, Russia on ugust 24, 2023. (Photo by Anastasia Barashkova/Reuters)





A woman visits a makeshift memorial with a portrait of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in Moscow, Russia on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A woman visits a makeshift memorial near the former PMC Wagner Centre, associated with the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in Saint Petersburg, Russia on ugust 24, 2023. (Photo by Anastasia Barashkova/Reuters)





A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin is installed at an informal memorial at a cafe owned by a Prigozhin's company in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, August 25, 2023. A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment has found that the plane crash presumed to have killed Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was intentionally caused by an explosion. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A truck carries a part of a private jet crashed near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region, Russia, Friday, August 25, 2023. A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment has found that the plane crash presumed to have killed Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was intentionally caused by an explosion. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People stand next to an informal street memorial with lit candles for Wagner Group's military group members killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, August 27, 2023. Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people on board. Russia's Investigative Committee said forensic and genetic testing identified all 10 bodies recovered from the crash, and the identities “conform with the manifest”. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman wearing pink clothes walks past a painted facade in Saint Petersburg, Russia on August 27, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A Cossack uses a sabre to slash plastic bottles filled with water during a sabre-cutting competition in the village of Novosvetlovsky, Rostov region, on August 27, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A Cossack slashes a watermelon with a sabre during a sabre-cutting competition in the village of Novosvetlovsky, Rostov region, on August 27, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A Cossack slashes a watermelon with a sabre during a sabre-cutting competition in the village of Novosvetlovsky, Rostov region, on August 27, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Flowers are seen on the grave of Wagner Group's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after a funeral at the Porokhovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, August 29, 2023. The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't planning to attend the funeral of Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died last week in a plane crash two months after launching his brief rebellion. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A man outs flowers at the grave of Valery Chekalov, logistics chief of the Wagner private mercenary group, after his funeral at the Severnoye cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia on August 29, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Igor Girkin also know as Igor Strelkov, the former military chief for Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, sits in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow's City Court in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, August 29, 2023. A prominent Russian hard-line nationalist who accused President Vladimir Putin of weakness and indecision in Ukraine was detained on charges of extremism. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)