Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on board' crashed Russian plane

UPDATED – Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on a plane that crashed in western Russia killing all on board, according to the country’s aviation authority

His name was on the list of those “declared as travelling on board” the plane, along with key Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin

The Russian Emergencies Ministry has said that private aircraft "came down” near the village of Kuzhenkino

Video of the plane coming down and pics of the crash itself – www.bbc.com/news/live/world-66599774

bizzle,
@bizzle@midwest.social avatar

I’m not buying it. Prigozhin lives. Probably hanging out with Tupac and Michael Jackson.

RizzRustbolt,

So they get to come down from heaven and help torture him?

jballs,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

Dammit, I had plutonium tea on my bingo card.

RoboRay,
RoboRay avatar

He should have stuck with his hot-dog cart.

xc2215x,

Seems convenient.

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

Putin retaliation or faked death to avoid Putin retaliation… who is to say.

TropicalDingdong,

Sounds like time for a deepfake Prigozhin to start showing up as part of a sabotage campaign within Russias borders…

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

Surprised it took this long for Pooty Poo to deal with his little problem.

eran_morad,

So this is how it ends for Prig.

OldWoodFrame,

So if I’m the next coup leader I’m absolutely never stopping. If you start the coup either you or Putin will die.

Short term solves some problems, long term risky.

JuzoInui,

If you come for the king, you best not miss

Gatsby,
@Gatsby@discuss.online avatar

Two months to the day after the coup attempt. His number was up the second he stopped advancing on Moscow.

LoneNumeral9,

Yeah, it’s definitely suspicious how this plane crash happened just two months after the coup attempt. It seems like someone wanted to silence him for good. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more to this story than meets the eye.

Treczoks,

Nothing of that kind of thing happens in Russia without Putin being behind it.

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.world avatar

There is …

“Christopher Steele - former head of the Russia desk at Britain’s foreign intelligence agency (MI6) - says it’s “inevitable” that this would be Prigozhin’s ending.”

“We were told some weeks ago, in fact, that there had been a contract taken out on Prigozhin inside Russia by senior people in the business community.”

from the link at the top of this toot.

paddirn,

That’s kind of concerning, since it seems to suggest that business leaders in Russia support Putin and weren’t aiming for a coup of their own, unless Prigozhin was somehow a threat to whatever coup they might be planning (if it was being planned at all). Granted, “senior people in the business community” are probably all Putin cronies anyways.

elouboub,
elouboub avatar

Relatively quick retribution, no? Will this have any effect though besides confirming that if you cross Putin, you die?

Hyperreality,

Wagner allied channels are talking of another march on Moscow.

But without a unifying leader? Who knows?

elouboub,
elouboub avatar

Now that would be interesting. If they started and actually completed the march.

TransplantedSconie,

Wow. They shot it down, too, lol. The members of the air defense battery are suddenly going to get their notice to head to the front if they haven’t already.

OldWoodFrame,

Zero percent chance the Russian military shot down the plane of a guy who just rebelled against the state accidentally. The order had to come from the top.

TransplantedSconie,

Yep, and to cover their tracks, the schlubs who pulled the trigger will be sent to die in some trench in Ukraine

DarkThoughts,

It's a pretty clear message, which I think most people were just waiting for it to happen.

Fiivemacs,

Only onboard the plane in paper. He is probably fine. I highly doubt he’s dumb enough to use his actual documents when flying

severien,

If Putin wants him dead and Prigozhin is in Russia, there’s not much he can do to avoid his fate.

JuzoInui,

If Prig got dusted, better hope there aren’t to many of his comrades in arms who don’t hold a grudge. Because Russia has been dredging the prisons and slums to give uniforms to. And Wagner’s crew are to say the least a bit more motivated (ie fucken bloodthirsty)

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.world avatar

Nope.

BBC has this …

“Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.”

Fiivemacs,

Your quote says a plane was shot down, not that his body was confirmed with proof

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a plane crash for heaven’s sake. The bodies will have to be identified by forensics, not by photos.

But the manifest has him on that plane so that’s what we go by until there’s proof otherwise.

Fiivemacs,

Hence why I’m skeptical…Russia and it’s warlords don’t follow traditional rules and most certainly don’t trust each other so it’s highly plausible that the paperwork for him was processed to show he is on a plane when Infact he was in a car driving…

Until there is ACTUAL proof, I’m staying skeptical. I don’t take news at face value unless there is evidence to back up their claims…

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.world avatar

Why flip to the side that has exactly zero proof? You could even just stay neutral until more evidence comes out. But instead you race to the conspiracy like it’s your best friend in the world.

I just don’t understand that mindset.

Fiivemacs,

I am staying neutral… I’m not saying he is alive, but there is no concrete evidence showing he’s dead. How is that not neutral

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.world avatar

Being neutral would mean you’re just as skeptical that he’s still alive.

Ildar,
@Ildar@lemmy.world avatar

t.me/tsargradtv/54726

Fiivemacs,

Still skeptical of just words

Ildar,
@Ildar@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, he is too tricky

LordOfLocksley,

“Pilot error”

phoneymouse,

Pilot flew into a missile.

severien,

Pilot leaned out of the window too much and fell off.

Kidplayer_666,

Revenge is a dish served… warm-ish

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