The-Sun.com - PUTIN'S enemy Yevgeny Prigozhin has been killed in a fireball private jet crash after his plane mysteriously dropped from the sky. The Wagner boss' death comes exactly two months after Russia's failed coup - and it has already sparked threats of another.
Footage showed the aircraft spiralling towards the ground from 28,000ft, with smoke pouring from the fuselage. Seconds later snaps of the aftermath showed the mangled wreckage of the white Embraer Legacy 600 business jet in a fiery heap. It went up in flames just 31 miles from Putin's lavish palace at Valdai, northern Russia.
Another jet flying nearby also appeared to be taking evasive action as if dodging a ground-to-air missile and turned back as Prigozhin’s jet fell. The crash was believed to have been caused after the plane was hit by such a missile - or a bomb on board. Sources claimed there were rumours explosives had been loaded into the private jet hidden inside an "expensive wine" crate.
Fingers were also being pointed at senior figures in Russia’s military angry that the thuggish mercenary chief had not been punished sooner for his betrayal. In the hours after the jet plummeted tens of thousands of feet, Wagner executives confirmed the deaths of Prigozhin and the war lord’s right-hand man Dmitry Utkin.
Awful amount of Ukrainian and US cheering about this.
ReplyDeleteAlmost like they we were pissed the US paid for "Failed Coup" and redeployment of the Wagner group was an ah, problem to them.
Yeah, he had made enemies in the Russian military as his mercs were so much more effective than their efforts.
I'll wait to see if the Wagner group is folded into the Russian military as some of Putin's Generals were demanding or continues to be the "French Foreign Legion" of Russia.
Dang. He lasted longer than I thought he would.
ReplyDeleteOne can only wonder what he had on the Clintons!
ReplyDeleteLike the old saying, "If you shoot at a king, you'd better not miss."
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