I have two hypothesis to what might have happened:
- Putin got to him, but instead of falling out of a window he fell from the sky
- Prigozhin stages his own death so he could escape with at least some of his money to somewhere in Africa or South America
some more ideass:
- Prigozhin was already dead when he was put on the airplane
- Russians procured 10 more random dead bodies to throw on the airplane
- completely fake story, Prigozhin is detained in prison somewhere
I know you’re just spitballing but putin wouldn’t go through that much effort. I think he’d much rather just kill him for real. Prigozhin filmed the Africa video earlier, then returned to Russia for some reason, and released the video claiming to be in Africa as misdirection. Putin got some good intel on Prigozhin’s plane and took the opportunity to shoot it down and stop the next rebellion before it starts
putin got him, 100%. both wagner and ru mod have reported that priggo is dead, and you don’t just randomly fire a SAM at a civilian jet
look at what happened to any other nationalist critic of kremlin: tatarsky is dead, girkin is in prison, surovikin is under “house arrest”, now prigozhin and utkin are also dead, and some others, like rybar, were told to toe the line or else and they complied
you don’t just randomly fire a SAM at a civilian jet
this one was 100% intentional. these two other were also intentional, just misguided, it takes several steps to fire a SAM, it does not happen through an accident (bar missile defence, but there are few civilian planes with size of missile, travelling at the speed of missile)
There’s a whole list of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_incidents
If it’s #2, I wonder if he’ll still be watching over his back for ice picks for the rest of his life.
I’m in the option 2 camp. While it is entirely possible that he really did die I’m skeptical and think this is some sort of plan of his. I don’t mean to sound conspiratorial but it’s so hard to believe anything reported by Russia
they already found his body, both ru authorities and wagner says that prigozhin and utkin are dead
#3 Prigozhin was not on board, Wagner command knows, so no uprising, and Putin looks like he had him assassinated. Optics preserved
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I might need some sleep