The hypotheses behind the death of the head of the Wagner group in Russia

Yevgeny Prigozhinthe Russian leader of the Wagner group, Died yesterday when the private plane in which he was transporting crashed in a sinister environment. There were ten people on board and none of them survived.

Although the Wagner Group, a private army of mercenaries that fought alongside the Russian regular army in Ukraine, has already confirmed Prigozhin’s death, neither the Kremlin nor the Russian Ministry of Defense have commented on the plane crash.

“An investigation has been opened into the Embraer plane disaster”, assured the civil aviation agency, Rossaviatsiabut has yet to come to a conclusion. For this reason, only hypotheses about what could have happened to the plane are considered.

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The least popular is that it was really an accident, as Prigozhin had annoyed the president Vladimir Putinwho is not known for his peaceful tactics.

Prigozhin, 62 years old, two months ago he led a failed military uprising against the Kremlin. Putin accused him of treasonbut after the mediation of the Belarusian president, Alexandr Lukashenko, Prigozhin agreed to withdraw his mercenaries and move his base to a town in southern Russia.

Vladimir Putin met with the rebel leader of the Wagner group shortly after his mutiny in Moscow

Therefore, there are suspicions that the plane of the mercenary leader was shot down by the Russian anti-aircraft defensesin retaliation for Prigozhin’s betrayal.

In support of this theory, a video is circulating on social networks of an interview with Putin, in which they ask him if he knows how to forgive. The Russian president answers yes, but with exceptions. When the interviewer asks what he cannot forgive, Putin says: betrayal.

“When Prigozhin stopped 200 kilometers from Moscow and suddenly backed up, he quickly and voluntarily signed his death warrant,” Mikhailo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, told the online daily. jellyfish.

Joe BidenThe president of the United States reacted similarly when he heard the news: “Not much is happening in Russia that Putin doesn’t support, but I don’t have enough information to know the answer,” he told the US president. Press.

However, according to the newspaper RBC, The authorities are studying three versions: a failed pilot, a technical problem or an external intervention.

Witnesses who saw the plane crash reported hearing two explosions and the plane exploding mid-air. It is also reported that the pilots never gave any warning signal that anything was wrong, so they must have died mid-flight.

The Commission of Investigation of Russia has opened a criminal case for violation of safety rules when operating an air transport device. (JO)

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