Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

Good chance he was dead before he hit the ground.  Decent chance he was dead even before he boarded the plane.    The plane may well have merely been recruited to help flesh out a story of how he died, and it may well not have been how he really died.

I've yet to see confirmation that he was aboard the plane.

If he wasn’t aboard the plane, then a staged crash to explain his death would be more conveniently staged farther from Moscow where scrutiny would be less.

The fact that the crash occurred near Moscow suggest that’s where in Russia Prigozhin could be lured to be assassinated and the plane crash either was the site of assassination or was close to where the assassination occurred.