Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia, with nine other people on board also dead
  • rynzcycle@kbin.social
    23·
    1 year ago

    Ok, I’ll do it…
    He’s alive and well and this is a bit of theatre agreed upon between Putler and him to save face in all directions.*

    *This is a conspiracy theory and not at all based on facts, don’t quote me or take it too seriously

    • kembik@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      A plane crash can make it easier to claim an alive man is dead as there may not be a body.

      I could see this as a means to keep Wagner troops loyalties in check, or just to keep everyone guessing. The most likely scenario though is that Putin did what Putin does which is assassination.

    • Storksforlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think its equally likely he was shot down/plane sabotaged, this is fake face saving thing, or the plane crashed due to shoddy mechanics. Whatever the case, the uncertainty works out in Putin’s favour.

      And if this is a fake-out, I think it’ll be found out pretty easily. He is not so adept at disguises.

  • Ertebolle@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    Feels like Putin’s lost a step, this should have been a much more interesting / inexplicable death; crushed by a herd of elephants or some such.

  • Dankenstein@beehaw.org
    6·
    1 year ago

    Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia’s civil aviation authority has said.

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

    The jet, which was flying from the capital to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.

    They probably don’t mind losing the crew and Piggy might have been the target (assuming this was intentional) but who else got disappeared along with him?

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I don’t think those were some random farmers who shared a private plane with the boss of Wagner

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  • Syldon@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    This is quickly going to be come Russia’s Epstein moment imo. Prigozhin has faked his death a few times now. He had a wardrobe full of disguise gear in his St Petersburg house. He could quite easily just vanish into Brazil.

  • Leonard Kelley@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is ONLY the 677th time I’ve seen this posted in the last two days…Can someone do me a favor and post it 349 more times just so we’ve all seen it more than a couple of times.

    Thanks.