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Russians mourn the death of the Wagner mercenary chief, who was buried in St. Peter’s
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the self-styled ‘Wagner Group’, was an act of “provocation” by Ukraine. The Russian President added that the Wagner Group was founded by Russia’s military intelligence services. Prigozhin was killed in a missile strike on the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea last…
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Russia has confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin died in the plane crash
A plane carrying Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed in Moscow last week, killing all 10 people on board, two months after he led his mercenary company in an attempted mutiny in Russia. Russia’s civil aviation authority said Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants were on the list of the passengers and crew members…
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Russian officials say that the passenger list for the crashed plane was for Prigozhin, the boss of the company
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who built the Wagner mercenary force that fought alongside Russia’s army in Ukraine, has been accused of masterminding the plane crash that killed 10 people. Prigozhin is suspected of having shot down the plane over Russia’s Tver region, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported. Russian authorities have said Prigozhin had ordered the…
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The Russian officials said that Prigokshan was a passenger on the crashed plane
A private jet carrying 10 people, including Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, crashed on its approach to Ukraine’s Kharkiv airport on Wednesday. The plane had taken off from Moscow and disappeared minutes later, Associated Press reported. The Russian defence ministry said that Ukraine had launched drones into its territory overnight, three of which it said it…
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Putin thinks that he is still in control
A blogger in Russia, Semyon Pegov, has called the anti-government rebellion in Ukraine “a stab in the back” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, Eto Buziashvili wrote. Pegov was involved in a video interview with Prigozhin last year that was “full of compliments”, Buziashvili said. Pegov had urged Prigozhin to take a prominent…
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The boss in question is more notorious than the one who is likely to fall
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, has said that Wagner will have to find new fighters beyond Russia’s prison system. Prigozhin’s comments came after Wagner announced that it will no longer recruit from Russian prisons. In response to a CNN request for comment onWagner’s decision, Prigozhin joked that millions of US citizens…
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The group was badly hurt in the assassination attempt.
A Russian citizen who is closely linked to the Wagner group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin has been injured in an assassination attempt in the Central African Republic, according to Prigozhin and Russian officials. It contained a note saying that next time he would receive his son’s head if ‘the Russians don’t get out of the…