The boss of the paramilitary group Wagner Yevgeny Prigojine, at the origin of a rebellion in June, his deputy and eight other passengers are presumed dead in the crash of a private plane on Wednesday northwest of Moscow, according to the Russian agency air transport and a ministry. The group’s Telegram channel also confirmed the information.
An adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mykhaïlo Podoliak, implied that the leader of the militia could have been eliminated by the Kremlin. “The dramatic elimination of Prigozhin and Wagner’s command two months after (their) coup attempt is a signal from Putin to Russian elites ahead of the 2024 elections,” he wrote on X (ex Twitter ), believing that “Putin does not forgive anyone”. According to him, Wagner’s leader had signed his death warrant by accepting the conditions set by Vladimir Putin after his failed coup in June, as LCI’s special envoy to Kiev, Claire Cambier, explains in the video below. A message sent to the elites and to the Russian army, within which there is a risk of destabilization, believe the Ukrainians.
In Ukraine, Evguéni Prigojine distinguished himself during the long and bloody battle for Bakhmout, in the East, where his men, notably recruited from Russian prisons, captured the city in May at the cost of heavy losses. A “meat grinder”, he said himself. It was during this battle that his conflict with senior Russian military officials came to a head, with Wagner’s boss accusing them of incompetence and not delivering him enough ammunition. He was then behind a rebellion in June against the Russian General Staff and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, led by his men, who briefly captured military sites in southern Russia before to go to Moscow. Vladimir Putin had called him a “traitor”, without pronouncing his name, and Yevgeny Prigojine had quickly given up on this mutiny, in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine.
2023-08-24 22:13:34
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