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Yevgeny Prigozhin dies in plane crash
FT ^ | 08/23/2023 | Max Seddon

Posted on 08/23/2023 10:19:43 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty

A plane carrying notorious warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner group launched a failed coup against president Vladimir Putin in June, has crashed on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg.

All 10 people on the plane, including three crew members, died in the crash, Russia’s emergency ministry said, according to state newswire RIA Novosti.

Russian officials said a man with Prigozhin’s name was among the passengers, without elaborating further.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chechnya; karma; mercenary; prigozhin; ramzankadyrov; russia; wagner; wagnergroup; yevgeny; yevgenyprigozhin
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To: JSM_Liberty

He had information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.


101 posted on 08/23/2023 2:49:17 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Reno89519

There is a video that shows a plane spiraling down from an fan shaped smoke pattern. Consistent with a heat seeking missile shoot down.


102 posted on 08/23/2023 2:51:48 PM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Rennes Templar

“In Confucius there is prophet.”

~ LTJG Holden


103 posted on 08/23/2023 2:59:20 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
he could have overthrown Putin!

If he's really dead, then yes. This is our answer. He had a brief opportunity to take out Putin in June 2023. Moscow was undefended and no one was able to stop the Wagner Guys.

All the Russian troops were in Ukraine. It's unlikely that Putin's regime would mount a counterattack after Moscow is captured. It'll be just like 1917.

104 posted on 08/23/2023 3:00:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Paul R.

It was his private jet, as you said. Not the only one he owns. It was an Embraer business class jet. Very well-made aircraft designed and built in Brazil. Embraer is heavily subsidized by the Brazilian government. Their jets have become very popular and are extensively used by United, American, Delta, and other U.S. carriers for commuter jet service.


105 posted on 08/23/2023 3:05:34 PM PDT by mikhailovich
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To: JSM_Liberty

GRU?? KGB??? CIA??? NBA???


106 posted on 08/23/2023 3:14:55 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: mikhailovich

It was ONE of his private jets. Another landed in another town later in the day; there’s some speculation on Telegram that Prighozin was on the second jet, and is still alive.

Belarus has apparently got a bit worried about the Wagner chatter, and shut off internet access around their locations. Not before Wagner put out some messages to the effect of, stuff’s gonna happen now. Some speculation that they’ll be bugging out of Belarus before the end of the week.


107 posted on 08/23/2023 4:11:53 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: mabarker1

Baloney. The pilot had already been severely reprimanded and removed from duty flying the Presidential plane because he diverted to a safe airport due to weather rather than the intended airport. The President was bitter at being forced to drive over an hour.
This was that AF pilot’s first flight after being returned to duty. The plane before them reported conditions below minimums. The Polish AFG plane ignored it.

And the theory that this was an assassination is retarded. At that time, they were trying to have trade and good relations. So to believe it was an assassination, you have to think Putin invited the Poles to a dedication of a monument to the mass murder at Katyn. Putin was the first Russian leader ever to admit that it was the USSR that did it and he released a signed order from Stalin. Immediately after the crash, he had Russian public TV show the POLISH film “Katyn” nationwide and had a panel of historians discuss it afterwards.
He then addressed the Polish nation and offered condolences.

So ... Putin builds a Katyn monument. He invites the Poles to Russia for the monument dedication to the murdered Poles. He releases Stalin’s letter ordering the murders. He has a stinging Polish movie on the topic shown nationwide. And all of that was so he could lure the Poles in .... and murder the entire upper level of the Polish government?

Retarded. Nobody would believe that except maybe a Pol... oh, Nevermind. lol


108 posted on 08/23/2023 6:55:35 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: L,TOWM

Wow, looks like a bomb to me. No missile trail, just a puff of smoke at one spot, and the place spiraling in. That’s no normal accident due to weather or pilot error.


109 posted on 08/23/2023 7:04:10 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The manager of the Beatles?


110 posted on 08/23/2023 8:04:02 PM PDT by MagaMatt (Sapere aude.)
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To: dfwgator

My thought exactly. It a bad Summer for Chefs.

Waiting for green t-shirt actor grifter guy to take credit, and Zeepers to host Biden victory parade on FR.

Time to send Yellen back to Kiev with some more Billions for Brandon.


111 posted on 08/23/2023 9:00:48 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: JSM_Liberty

Just like what Mao did to Lin Piao.

Look it up. The communists love shoving people out of building windows(Krivitsky and the Czech leader), poisoning their drinks (Pollonium),or sticking them with poison-containing pellets in the tip of umbrellas (the Markos case), car crashes possibly including Gen. Patton, and a couple of suspicious suicides” (including Prof. Mike Adams and Intelligence Operative Phil Haney, the latter being an acquaintance of mine), etc., not to mention drive-by shootings in Moscow, ad infinitum.

I think you get the picture.


112 posted on 08/23/2023 9:10:11 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Putin don’t care if it looks like an accident. In fact he likes it better if it doesn’t!.....................


113 posted on 08/24/2023 5:55:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MalPearce

Hmm. Very interesting if true.


114 posted on 08/24/2023 6:42:11 AM PDT by mikhailovich
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To: DesertRhino

Pattern would have been more spherical and too much of the plane was intact coming down for an onboard bomb. There would have also been more debris in the air from an onboard event.

Most SAM’s and AAM’s have infra-red (heat seeker) or radar guidance, but proximity fusing. The warheads of missiles targeting aircraft these days are essentially big shotgun shells.

The beginning of that video looks like a pilot trying to control what was left of his aircraft after the back end and engines got shredded.


115 posted on 08/24/2023 7:35:26 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: MalPearce

There are reports those on the 2nd plane were arrested when they landed. Accuracy unknown, but it’d make a lot of sense that anyone trying to decapitate Wagner would scoop up the occupants of the 2nd plane.

Whether said decapitation will work in the long run remains to be seen. Pooty may have traded one big snake for a few dozen (presently) little ones.


116 posted on 08/24/2023 5:18:36 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: FlyingEagle

Z-man has denied any involvement by Ukraine, but good cheer about the result. The latter may be in error.


117 posted on 08/24/2023 5:21:09 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Noumenon

Yup. When old Vlad wants you dead he doesn’t fool around.


118 posted on 08/25/2023 2:07:52 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: JSM_Liberty
Putin doesn't mess around

What’s that old saying, if you strike at the king, make sure you kill him, cuz he will come back at you. Putin did exactly that.

119 posted on 09/02/2023 1:47:14 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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