Ukraine’s HUR urges patience in confirming Prigozhin’s death in plane crash
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The Ukrainian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate or HUR has recommended awaiting official confirmation of the death of Evgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner private military company.
“Let’s wait. It’s not so simple... Prigozhin himself was involved in a case where there was supposedly an airplane crash, but he (remained alive). It’s Russia, it’s hard to understand things,” Vadym Skibitsky, the HUR’s spokesperson, said on national television on Sept. 9.
Prigozhin Plane Crash in Russia — What We Know
This incident transpired precisely two months after a failed Wagner Group mutinty commenced. According to Rosaviatsiya, there were a total of ten people on board, including seven passengers (Wagner militants, including Valerii Chekalov, an entity associated with Prigozhin) and three crew members.
Read also: Prigozhin’s mutiny was a planned special operation – Danilov
Among the leading theories concerning the plane crash of Prigozhin’s Embraer Legacy 600 are an onboard explosion and a ground-launched missile strike.
Read also: Prigozhin likely killed over control of Wagner’s Africa business — Bellingcat
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, while discussing Prigozhin’s potential demise on Aug. 24, referred to him in the past tense, stating that he “had a complicated fate.”
The Russian Investigative Committee officially announced on Aug. 27 that Prigozhin and his right-hand man, Utkin, had perished in the plane crash in Tver Oblast.
Prigozhin’s spokesperson declared on Aug. 29 that his burial had occurred in a “closed format” at a cemetery in St. Petersburg.
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