Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin dies in plane crash?
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi Delhi, August 23: Russian authorities late evening confirmed that the private army Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a private jet that crashed in Tver Oblast. It was also stated in some quarters that the plane was downed by the Russian air defences.
While the information about the plane crash continued to trickle in, it was also stated that the plan in which Prigozhin was on the passenger list was shot down near Moscow, the Russian capital. Even while it’s being stated that Prigozhin was on the passenger list, experts were skeptical of reaching to the conclusion to admit that the Wagner chief was dead because of the mysterious way of his operation.
He had apparently staged a march to Moscow against the way the military operations in Ukraine were being done, and called off only a few miles away from the Russian capital. Afterwards, he was exiled to Belarus. But subsequently he was seen in Russia-Africa Summit where he held deliberations with the heads of the nations of the African continent.
Prigozhin was known to be a confidant of Vladimir Putin, and ran a restaurant chain, which supplied meals to Kremlin. The Russian authorities said that all passengers and the crew of the ill-fated plane were dead. The plane crash was captured on mobile phone and the video made to the social media platforms, as two loud sounds were heard leading to the crash. The American intelligence officials had been saying that Prigozhin was still not out of danger after his alleged coup attempt against Putin.
It may be recalled that Putin had made an elaborate presentation on the internal security of Russia in the wake of the alleged coup attempt by Prigozhin during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit. Wagner was involved in crucial assault in several of the cities in Ukraine as part of the Russian push against Kyiev. Prigozhin had posted several video messages in his telegram channel to allege that the Russian operations in Ukraine were being poorly executed.
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