A plane crashed in the Tver region. On board could be Prigozhin

In the Bologovsky district of the Tver region, the aircraft crashed, according to preliminary data, belonging to the head of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin. The Federal Air Transport Agency claims that he was on the list of passengers. All on board - ten people - died, the Ministry of Emergencies reports . Their bodies were found, but burned strongly, writes "Base".

According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, in addition to Prigozhin, on board the collapsed aircraft were the commanders of the PMC Dmitry Utkin (call sign "Wagner"), the top manager "Concord" Valery Chekalov, three mercenaries Sergey Proshkin, Evgeny Makaryan and Alexander Totmin, Nikolai Matuseyev, as well as members of the crew, Aleksey Levshin, the second pilot Rustam Karimov and flight attendant Christina Raspepova.

However, there are still no official evidence of the death of Prigozhin and his associates. At the same time, in St. Petersburg, the local residents began to bring flowers, candles and Chevrons of the Wagner PMC to the Wagner Center building, the North. Real correspondent reports.

By one in the morning, 9 people came to the building, who brought cloves and candles and laid them out at a pedestrian crossing near the Wagner Center.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under an article on "violation of traffic safety rules and the operation of air transport."

The moment of falling the aircraft fell on the video, which in particular, the telegram channels "Base" and Mash.

The plane fell in a populated area. In published photos from the place of fall, a on-board number similar to RA-02795 is visible. This is the number of a business jet belonging to Prigogine. "Base" with reference to the data of Flightradar writes that the plane flew from Moscow.

Update: On the morning of August 24, Flightradar published a more detailed report on the crash of Prigozhin aircraft. The first data received the first data at 17:46 in Moscow. At 18:11, the board took a cruising height of eight and a half kilometers and transferred the data for another nine minutes. In the last minutes, the business jet several times sharply changed vertical speed. Flightradar recorded the latest information when the aircraft was at an altitude of six kilometers.

Journalist Andrei Zakharov, citing sources, claims that Prigozhin and the Wagner PMC, flew to Russia from Africa today.

There are no comments on Prigozhin structures yet. Channel Grey Zone, associated with the Wagner PMC, writes that the plane was allegedly "shot down by air defense equipment."

An official of the Russian occupation administration of the Zaporizhzhya region Vladimir Rogov, citing representatives of the Wagner PMC, claims that Prigozhin and Utkin were on board and died. With reference to their sources about the fact that Prigozhin was on board, they write Fontanka , Ksenia Sobchak and Brief telegram channel .

At the time of the disaster in the air, there was also another aircraft associated with Prigozhin-a business jet with the on-board number RA-02795. He flew to Moscow from St. Petersburg and landed at Ostafyevo Business Aviation Airport near Moscow. So far there is no information who was on board this aircraft. A number of telegram channels suggest that Prigogine could not be on a broken airplane and fly on the second, but there is no confirmation of this.

Armed rebellion

Exactly two months ago, on June 23, Prigozhin announced the missile strikes allegedly inflicted on Wagner from the “Wagner” from the regular army of Russia. After that, he announced that 25 thousand Wagner fighters were going on an armed campaign to Moscow in order to hold the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense accountable. For a day, the columns of the Wagner PMC managed to actually take control of Rostov-on-Don. During the rebellion, the Wagnerians shot down several helicopters and the aircraft of the Russian army, the pilots died.

Prigozhin stopped the rebellion after negotiations with the authoritarian leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. They allegedly agreed that the PMC would relocate to a neighboring country in order to train the Belarusian military. The FSB of Russia opened a criminal case of calling for an armed rebellion. On June 27, the department stated that the case was closed. In early July, it became known that Prigozhin was returned 10 billion rubles, which were seized from him during searches during the rebellion, as well as weapons, including the named Glock pistol, allegedly donated by Shoigu.

After the rebellion attempt, Putin met with Prigozhin and the commanders of mercenaries in the Kremlin. The president gave his assessment of what happened and offered representatives of the PMC "Options for employment". According to him, the Wagner commanders presented Putin with their version of events and assured that they were convinced supporters and soldiers of the head of state.

Who is Evgeny Prigozhin

Evgeny Prigozhin is a St. Petersburg businessman, a long -standing acquaintance of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He gained fame as the organizer of the restaurant business (due to the contracts for servicing the Kremlin, he was called the "Putin's cook"). Subsequently, Prigozhin was organized by the Wagner PMC - an informal armed unit who fought for the interests of the Kremlin in Syria, Africa, and then in Ukraine.

PMC mercenaries are suspected of committing numerous war crimes. Prigogine has been under sanctions of the European Union since 2020. Prior to this, in 2016, the businessman fell under the restrictions of the United States. Washington believes that he is also related to the "troll factory", which intervened in the American presidential election, supporting Donald Trump.

The US PMC “Wagner” of the United States was announced by a transnational criminal organization and imposed sanctions against six individuals and 12 companies, which Washington considers to be associated with the “PMC Wagner” and Prigozhin.

Before the war, the Russian authorities tried to keep the existence and financing of PMCs a secret. But after the start of the Russian invasion, the company became widely known, openly engaged in Russia recruiting mercenaries, including among prisoners of Russian colonies. At the front in Ukraine, the Wagner PMC was considered one of the most combat -ready units.

During the fighting, Prigozhin repeatedly performed sharply criticism of the Ministry of Defense and personally Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu. Including, he accused military officials of artificial creation of "shell hunger" for his mercenaries fighting in Bakhmut.

Reactions to the possible death of the PMC Chapter

One of the first news about the alleged death of Yevgeny Prigozhin was commented by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak.

"If the plane crash occurred, then it certainly confirms that a new stage has begun in the domestic policy of Russia." Time of Time "with numerous deaths begins.

Putin does not forgive anyone with a sticky feeling of his own fear. This is impossible. Such a demonstrative elimination [Prigozhin] is a direct signal to the elites that the brutal killings of “their own” in Russia begin. Due to large -scale nervousness, distrust, suspicion that captured Putin.

I believe that this is also a direct signal to Western elites that Putin can be very afraid. But he does not forgive the “loss of face”, insulting the support of Ukraine, the ISS Order and so on. And therefore, incorrectly completed war, compromise options, and next Minsk agreements are a big problem. With emergency consequences. Putin will take revenge. Hybrid.

Finally, this is the signal of the Russian army that there are really no “heroes” there and that any disloyalty will be punishable by death, ”Podolyak said in an interview with Medusa.

The politician Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a comment on the situation said that Prigozhin ordered his murder.

“The penultimate one, about whom I will regret, is Evgeny Prigozhin. He ordered me, but life seems to have ordered me differently. Nevertheless, we are dealing with another extrajudicial reprisal. If it were a normal state, and not a shalman named after Putin, then it would be [it would be a rebellion] to judge or amnesty.”

Political scientist Ekaterina Shulman is inclined to the version with a staging.

“But in order to hide forever, taking one of the many emergency passports, a burned-out plane is also a suitable occasion. The raven will not collect bones, ends to the ashes, the trace was caught,” she wrote in her telegram channel.

Political scientist Alexander Baunov considers the most likely the murder of the authorities: “One of the technologies of punishment within the dictatorship is to bring the enemy or traitor to be closer to the destruction, or at least make peace and pretend that [he is] forgiven. It’s like in films about the mafia: the warring groups and their bosses are gathering together so that some others are shot from the cake. Or [as] in the“ Cross Father ”, where everyone is determined before, before they are determined before. [Start a friend of a friend] destroy. "

Political scientist Tatyana Stanovaya suggested that "everyone will see it as an act of retaliation and reprisal." "From the point of view of Putin, as well as many among the security forces and the military - Prigogine's death should be a lesson to any potential followers," she wrote .

The founder of the human rights project Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin expressed regret that Prigozhin was not put on the international wanted list until his death and did not live to the court. “The mafia killed its“ ax ”and“ sledgehammer ”yesterday, the leaders of“ there are no “there are no”, eliminated, and the dictator Putin will fall asleep for the first time in 2 months. He knows for sure that Prigogine will not fly away, not publish his archive and will not testify to Putin, Bortnikov, etc., neither in The Hague, nor anywhere else, ” the human rights activist said.

The writer, participating in the war against Ukraine, Zakhar Prilepin expressed the hope that Prigozhin is alive: "I will not believe it, how much more is ... The whores already have a holiday. The holidays of the whores. These holidays have already been hesitated for nine years. Zhen, Evgeny Viktorovich, live more."

Margarita Simonyan, editor -in -chief of the RT propaganda channel, wrote: "Among the versions discussed is a staging. But personally, I am inclined to more obvious." To which, she did not explain.

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