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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia, with nine other people on board also dead
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia, with nine other people on board also dead
There is no way this was an accident.
EDIT: This is supposedly Prigozhin’s plane falling out of the sky:
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1694397010680361239/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1694397010680361239¤tTweetUser=maxseddonEDIT Again - old video/tweet was removed, apparently.
See this link to the Washington Post for the Video:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/plane-allegedly-carrying-wagners-prigozhin-crashes/2023/08/23/dfa2360c-8779-40e7-820a-be3e45d0feda_video.html
The moment he turned around his march to Moscow, this became inevitable.
Yeah, I am honestly surprised it took this long. I thought it would have happened sooner.
Now, I suppose we wait to see if there is a response from the rest of Wagner…
Does Wagner even practically exist anymore? I thought they’d been integrated into the wider Russian military after the rebellion.
Not sure - they are/were mercenaries, after all.
Here is a Twitter link to what is supposedly his plane falling out of the sky:
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1694397010680361239/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1694397010680361239¤tTweetUser=maxseddonEDIT the old video/tweet was removed, apparently.
See this link to the Washington Post for the Video:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/plane-allegedly-carrying-wagners-prigozhin-crashes/2023/08/23/dfa2360c-8779-40e7-820a-be3e45d0feda_video.html