Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin: Private jet crashed in Russia – according to Tass, Wagner boss was on the passenger list
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Yevgeny Prigozhin: Private jet crashed in Russia – according to Tass, Wagner boss was on the passenger list
Article by Sabrina Knoll •
49 mins
Is Yevgeny Prigozhin dead? The Russian state agency Tass reports a plane crash. Accordingly, the Wagner boss could have been on board.
According to a report by the state-controlled news agency Tass, a plane has crashed in Russia. Ten people died as a result. Citing the flight authority, it was said that the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was on the passenger list.
Only recently a video appeared on the Internet that is said to show the mercenary boss in Africa around two months after his failed short-term uprising in Russia. More detailed information – such as the place and time of the recording – was not given. The location of the recording could not be independently checked either.
We work. The temperature is more than 50 degrees, says Prigozhin in the video. Then he explains that his Wagner troupe is conducting reconnaissance work – and adds: “It makes Russia even bigger on all continents. And Africa even freer.«