Shannon VavraLATEST: Wagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin was listed aboard a plane that just crashed in Russia, Rosaviatsiya confirmed, weeks after his failed revolt in Russia—in what many suspect is a carefully orchestrated assassination by Putin. https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagner-group-founder-yevgeny-prigozhin-among-passengers-on-crashed-plane
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said that all 10 people on board died in the incident. The Federal Air Transport Agency is launching an investigation into the incident, per Rosaviatsiya: i.e. training of the crew onboard, condition of aircraft, meteorological situation, radio gear
Here is an illustration from @thedailybeast (with flight path from Flightradar24) of the flight that crashed, suspected to have Wagner boss Prigozhin aboard, just weeks after he marched on Moscow, believed to be the largest public challenge to Putin's hold on power in years:
Of course working for more details directly about the incident, but the Russian Ministry of Emergency Services hung up on me when I called asking questions and reached an operator, FWIW
The plane crash is no accident and has likely been in the works since the mutiny, Ronald Marks tells me: "Russia is a mafia-like state. You don’t shoot at the don and miss without consequences...There’s no way in the world...Putin could have allowed him to exist..."
Update:
On board the crashed aircraft, per Rosaviatsiya:
Sergey Propustin
Evgeniy Makaryan
Alexander Totmin
Valeriy Chekalov
Dmitry Utkin
Nikolay Matuseev
Evgeniy Prigozhin
Crew members:
Aleksei Levshin, commander
Rustam Karimov, co-pilot
Kristina Raspopova, flight attendant
Stu Duerson, machina exo deusWhat an utter crock of shit.
Several videos have already been posted, one of which shows the attack quadrant (missile launch exhaust, missile explosion smoke, and the hit aircraft). Another shows the aircraft going in, tumbling and trailing smoke.
I guess if they'd taught me how to blow up and crash in pilot training, it would be a critique-able skill. I must have been out sick, that day.
Of course, one might be mistaken, but this appears, at this juncture, to be a world leader assassinating one of his countrymen by shooting down an airplane over his own country, killing all aboard and endangering citizens below.