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 – https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-66599774
Two months to the day after the coup attempt. His number was up the second he stopped advancing on Moscow.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing of that kind of thing happens in Russia without Putin being behind it.
Did the plane fall out of a window?
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When I read that I thought Russia was going to blame Ukraine, but apparently it was going from Moscow to St. Petersburg, so that wouldn’t make sense.
It was suicide, as was the self-inflicted two gunshots behind his head. Who could have known …
No, it fell down from the stairs
Had to know it would happen sooner rather than later.
I’m just surprised the plane was shot in Russian airspace. Putin’s not even trying to hide his assinations anymore.
I’m surprised it took this long, I thought he’d be dead within a week of his failed coup.
They don’t hide them, they just deny them despite all the evidence to the contrary. Usually while sneering.
He’s never tried to hide them. That’s the point.
Right.
This assassination wasn’t revenge, it was a threat, to anyone else that might be thinking about a coup.
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.
If you come for the king, you best not miss
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.
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.
Yep, and to cover their tracks, the schlubs who pulled the trigger will be sent to die in some trench in Ukraine
It’s a pretty clear message, which I think most people were just waiting for it to happen.
This will rustle some jimmies.
Well, at least it wasn’t a slow painful Polonium or Novichok death.
Sounds like time for a deepfake Prigozhin to start showing up as part of a sabotage campaign within Russias borders…
Relatively quick retribution, no? Will this have any effect though besides confirming that if you cross Putin, you die?
Wagner allied channels are talking of another march on Moscow.
But without a unifying leader? Who knows?
Now that would be interesting. If they started and actually completed the march.
Surprised it took this long for Pooty Poo to deal with his little problem.
He should have stuck with his hot-dog cart.
Dammit, I had plutonium tea on my bingo card.
So this is how it ends for Prig.
“Pilot error”
Pilot leaned out of the window too much and fell off.
Pilot flew into a missile.
Revenge is a dish served… warm-ish
