The head of the militia Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhinwho led a rebellion against the Russian government in June, is on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in the region of Moscow.
“The list of passengers of the plane that crashed in the Tver region includes Yevgeny Prigozhin”, indicated the aeronautical service Rosaviatsia quoted by agencies TASS, Ria Novosti and Interfaxafter the lifeguards indicated that the ten people who were on board the device had died.
“An investigation has been opened into the Embraer plane crash,” he said. Rosaviatsia.
From friend to critic of Putin
After an old friendship with Vladimir Putin and the intervention of its mercenaries in key offensives of the war in Ukraine -in addition to other conflicts around the world-, Prigozhin had become a fierce critic of the defense policies of the Kremlin. This escalation led to the attempted coup in June, apparently intended to remove the leadership of the Armed Forces, and to its final fall from grace.
Initially taking refuge in Belarus, a Russian ally, the fate of the group’s leader Wagner It became random, to the point that Western observers, critical of Russia, assured that the same fate could be suffered by other dissidents.
According to Rosaviatsiathe private plane Embraer Legacyof Brazilian manufacture, crashed near the town of kujenkinoin the region of Tvernorthwest of Moscow.
Prigozhin62, rose to fame after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, in which his fighters – including thousands of convicts he recruited from prison – led the Russian assault on the city of Bakhmut in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war.
Prigozhin used the social networks to proclaim the successes of the group Wagnerwhich alienated him from the formal military establishment, which he accused of incompetence and even treason.
In June, he led a riot in which its fighters seized control of the southern city of rostov-on-don and shot down several military helicopters, killing even their pilots, as they advanced towards Moscow. President Putin described it as an act of “treason” that would receive a harsh response, and in fact ended up quelling that uprising, which had the sympathies of the member countries of the NATO.
Source: Ambito
