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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

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Did the plane fall out of a window?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely fell down a staircase

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm ever in Russia, I think I'll stick to windowless one-story buildings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFK BRB Chocolate found dead near yhe floor on some basement steps in Russia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dang it! So easily foiled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It was suicide, as was the self-inflicted two gunshots behind his head. Who could have known …

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, it fell down from the stairs

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Had to know it would happen sooner rather than later.

I'm just surprised the plane was shot down in Russian airspace. Putin's not even trying to hide his assinations anymore.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm surprised it took this long, I thought he'd be dead within a week of his failed coup.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

They don't hide them, they just deny them despite all the evidence to the contrary. Usually while sneering.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

If you come for the king, you best not miss

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This will rustle some jimmies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well, at least it wasn't a slow painful Polonium or Novichok death.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Seems convenient.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Revenge is a dish served… warm-ish

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wagner allied channels are talking of another march on Moscow.

But without a unifying leader? Who knows?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jballs 6 points 1 year ago

Dammit, I had plutonium tea on my bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So this is how it ends for Prig.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

He should have stuck with his hot-dog cart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pilot flew into a missile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still skeptical of just words

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he is too tricky

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