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Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner Group in Plane Crash
https://www.foxnews.com/world/yevgeny-prigozhin-plane-crashed-killing-10-officials-say.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner Group who challenged the rule of Vladimir Putin just months ago, was involved Wednesday in a plane crash that has left 10 people dead outside of Moscow, state media is reporting.
The business jet was traveling from the Russian capital to St. Petersburg went it went down in the Tver region, according to the TASS news agency.
It’s not immediately clear whether Prigozhin is among the 10 reported to have died in the crash. The Pentagon told Fox News Digital that it is monitoring the situation.
As a friend of mine said, “He was special. No flying out of a window for him.”
Will be interesting to see what develops. As they Emerson says, ” ‘When you strike at the king, you must kill him.”
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Vladimir takes office politics to another level.
If he was voluntarily still living and working inside Russia (a pretty big “if”) then it’s sorta kinda hard to feel much sympathy, as that’s just stoopid. If he wanted to stay alive he shoulda been begging the USA for political asylum. It’s pretty much the only country where Putin’s assassins might have had trouble getting to him.
From the WSJ article:
Anyone surprised?
What a surprise. I suppose Hillary Clinton is unavailable for comment. 😜
Wonder what sort of flight. I would not have wanted to be in the same vehicle of any type with him.
Or polonium borscht.
The Telegraph says he’s dead.
The Ukrainian war bloggers I follow have been noting the past few days that whatever deals Putin seemed to have made with Prigozhin, it seems that Putin is not keeping his end of the deal, and Wagner is rapidly becoming insignificant.
I think I’ll rent Sarah Hoyt’s surprised face for this one.
Embraer Legacy 600 bound for St Petersburg.
Dmitry Utkin, former(?) GRU special forces officer, second in command of the Wagner Group and its alleged founder, was supposedly onboard as well.
Ave atque vale.
Sort of. Putin could have taken him out a couple months ago after that faked coup attempt. He would have had pretext and been celebrated for it by his supporters.
Why wait until now?
Whose tinfoil hat is bigger?
I worry about this and Trump. He isn’t on AF 1 now.
Which means that Putin finally got a real neo-Nazi!
I saw a video on Twitter of a plan tumbling down. It was definitely not controlled flight. I think I saw pictures of that guy in Africa last week. We have to assume foul play. Is the end of something or the start of something else?
Bob just heard possible SAM.
Article says it was Wagner’s own private jet. I guess we can be thankful for small mercies that it wasn’t a commercial flight.
Also being reported: A second plane, which also had Prigozhin on its passenger list, landed at Podolsk (just outside Moscow) a little while ago.
The 24-48 hour rule seems applicable. The dust hasn’t settled on this story.
Fascinating. Do you have a link to the story?
Just this: https://twitter.com/thesiriusreport/status/1694412615219392975
And this: https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1694408388900192267
WSJ is now mentioning another plane.
What if the plot was really the Air Force who had a couple of plane shot down in the coup attempt and they were trying to get their revenge? And then what if Prighozhin found out about it and swapped planes?
I think you are correct, 24-48 hours at least.
Maybe that’s all diversion, and the real Yevgeny Prigozhin is now climbing up the outside of the Kremlin with a knife clenched in his teeth.
And two grenades hanging from his belt by their pins.
Whut? Just because Utkin had SS insignia tattoos? Don’t jump to conclusions. That was probably only a coincidence.
I guess this settles the theoryy that this “coup thing” was a trap/feint.
Maybe Prigozhin.
I’m shocked! I’m shocked I tell you…I’m shocked. ;)
Well, all we know from what I read is that Prigozhin is on the passenger list. It doesn’t mean he was actually on the plane. This could have been his way to disappear to some Caribbean island under a new name.