Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin, after the mercenary leader's plane crashed with no survivors two months after he led a mutiny against army chiefs.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    124·
    1 year ago

    Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin

    “I’m very sorry I shot his plane down to assassinate him. I probably wouldn’t do it again. Maybe.”

  • Khazram@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    1 year ago

    “I had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the start of the 90s. He was a man with a difficult fate, and he made serious mistakes in life.”

    “IDC how long I’ve known you, cross me and you get a missile up your bum.”

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      1 year ago

      It’s ego…

      Sure, this guy fucks over everyone else, but he wouldn’t dare do that to me, I’m special!

      Same reason people don’t expect trump to turn on them. Rational people don’t do it to begin with, so the ones willing to usually aren’t the best at critical thinking or risk assessment

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    MOSCOW, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin on Thursday, breaking his silence after the mercenary leader’s plane crashed with no survivors two months after he led a mutiny against army chiefs.

    Two U.S. officials told Reuters that Washington believed a surface-to-air missile originating from inside Russia likely shot down the plane, though they said the information was preliminary and under review.

    Prigozhin, 62, was head of the Wagner mercenary group and a self-declared enemy of the army top brass over what he said was its incompetent prosecution of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

    Putin earlier made a virtual statement to a summit of the BRICS nations in South Africa which his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was attending.

    The Baza news outlet, which has good sources among law enforcement agencies, reported that investigators were focusing on a theory that one or two bombs may have been planted on board.

    The mercenary leader also spent months criticising the conduct of Russia’s war in Ukraine - which Moscow calls a “special military operation” - and had tried to topple Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff.

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    • ShadowRam@kbin.social
      23·
      1 year ago

      I’m not totally convinced he’s dead.
      This looks too staged. You don’t get to the top of a merc group like that by making dumb mistakes like this.

      Then again, who the fucks knows. Maybe you do in Russia.

      • flipht@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        This was my first thought.

        Best way to stay alive is to cross a land border, get on another plane under an assumed identity, and go as far away as possible, letting your real name pretend to take flights until a plane goes down and you’re never found.

        Russia has a history of following dissidents to other countries and assassinating them. The only way to avoid that fate would be for Putin to already think you’re dead.

      • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Well, his plane was already “shot down” a few years ago, so who knows…

  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    What is sad is that 10 other people were on that plane. Not a good idea to fly on a plane containing anyone outspoken against the kremlin.