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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia's civil aviation authority has said.

Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.

The jet, which was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.

Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June.

Grey Zone said local residents heard two bangs before the crash and saw two vapour trails.

Tass news agency said the plane caught fire on hitting the ground, adding that four bodies had already been found.

The aircraft had been in the air for less than half an hour, it said.

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 71 points 11 months ago
[-] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago

Lol, exactly. It's really tragic, but I'll get over it eventually. Now Vlad please.

[-] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

feared dead

LMAO. What? Y'all mean "hoped dead"?

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Feared in the sense that we don't know. All this new information is coming from Russian State Media. Which is the equivalent of being informed of climate change on Fox News.

Even more bizarre, he was seen in Africa seemingly advertising his unit for the conflict developing in the region.

So how did he suddenly end up in Moscow? The place he had to negotiate to flee from only 2 months ago?

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Alternative Putin’s account detected.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Damn, who had “shot down in a plane”? I had poisoning

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago
[-] zerokiwi@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

Ended up being deplanestration

[-] schnokobaer@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

I thought he'd just go missing one day and never found

[-] AreaKode@lemmy.thesharpcheddar.net 3 points 11 months ago

I mean... isn't that what just happened? Until we see a body, he could have faked his death, or he could be in the basement of the gulag with everyone thinking he's dead.

[-] FleetingTit@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

or he could be in the basement of the gulag with everyone thinking he's dead.

Soo basically "dead with extra steps"? "Dead to all intents and purposes"?

[-] FleetingTit@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

I had my money on "fell out of a window", tbh.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

feared

Lmao

Sad...

My money was on defenestration.

[-] Poot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Nope. Went out with a bang, it seems.

[-] MarkHughes4096@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe he went through the cockpit window as the plane hit the ground.

[-] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe a rocket helped opening a window, you know ... to let fresh air in.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 11 months ago

The airplane killed itself

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Boating accident, like Fredo

[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Becomes first person known to Russia who fell out of an airplane window at 28,000 feet.

[-] vegetarian_pacemaker@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/23/plane-reportedly-carrying-yevgeny-prigozhin-crashes-in-russia-a82233

Independent journalist Andrei Zakharov, citing an unnamed source, said Prigozhin on Wednesday was returning to Russia from a trip in Africa, where Wagner mercenaries have operated for years and where Prigozhin was recently filmed for a recruitment video.

“It would be a miracle if he’s on another plane,” the source said.>

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago
[-] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I personally wanted continuation of the spectacle and eventual Prigozhin’s visit to Hague.

[-] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Is anyone on the entire planet surprised to hear this?

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yes. I figured he would fall out of a window.

[-] Xeknos@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Also wouldn't shock me if he put his name on the passenger list and had it destroyed himself to fake his death.

He has to know he had/has a target on his back

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Who’s fearing this? I’m curious.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I dunno, but I’m waiting for him to stay dead and then I might do a little jig.

Yes. I can be like that. And yes, he was thst awful a human.

[-] nuxetcrux@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No body yet?

Edit: a finger has been identified as his

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The window was too high.

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