2023-08-26 14:26:08
Conjectures regarding the plane crash of the leader of the Grupo Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, They multiply; such as the detonation of an explosive device inside the ship, the impact of a missile, a technical malfunction or even pilot error.
The authorities of Russia continued this Saturday the investigation into the plane crash in which, according to the official version, the leader of the Grupo Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhinwhile conjectures regarding this incident, which decapitated the company of mercenaries, multiplied.
Although until Russian President, Vladimir Putinleft for dead Yevgeny Prigozhin offering his condolences on the death of the head of the WagnerUntil today his death has not been legally confirmed with DNA tests, necessary due to the condition of the bodies of the occupants of the plane that crashed on Wednesday.
The identification through comparative analysis of genetic material might take several days, since it depends on the delivery of samples from the direct relatives of the deceased, he explained to the digital Fontanka.ru the forensic doctor Vladimir Skakun.
Already on Friday the Investigation Committee of Russia (CIR), which is investigating the crash of the plane in which the chief of the Wagner militia was traveling, Yevgeny Prigozhinindicated that he had already found the bodies of the ten people who were on board as well as the black boxes of the flight.
Lukashenko warned Prigozhin
The President of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko, who mediated to quell the mutiny of the Wagner last June once morest the Russian military leadership, affirmed this Friday that he warned Yevgeny Prigozhin through Vladimir Putin that he had information that an attack was being prepared once morest him.
Lukashenko added that the leader of the Wagner He later confirmed that he had received the notice.
Precisely the detonation of an explosive device placed in the landing gear compartment of the aircraft Yevgeny Prigozhinan Embraer Legacy 600, is being considered as the possible cause of the accident.
They find the 10 bodies and black boxes of the plane in which Prigozhin was traveling | Source: AFP
Some media pointed out the possibility that the aircraft might have been shot down, intentionally or by mistake, by missiles from the anti-aircraft defense units that protect a residence of Vladimir Putin located next to the route followed by the aircraft Yevgeny Prigozhin .
The Russian authorities are not ruling out a technical defect or even a piloting error as the cause of the accident, while on social networks there is no shortage of those who maintain that everything is a setup and that Yevgeny Prigozhin its alive.
In any case, The Kremlin flatly rejected the accusations of the opposition and the statements of Western politicians that Putin was behind the plane crash Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“It is an absolute lie,” emphasized the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov.
Putin does not forgive betrayal
Many media have recalled that Vladimir Putin He declared at the time that he does not forgive treason, as he described the rebellion of the Wagner in a television message to the population on the same day of the riot, on June 24.
After the agreement that put an end to the uprising of the mercenaries and that included their transfer to Belarus, the Grupo Wagner he was stripped of his heavy weaponry.
And now with the plane crash Yevgeny Prigozhin the company of mercenaries has been left headless, since Dmitri Utkin, its most prominent commander and whose code name “Wagner” he was adopted for the entire group, of which he was a co-founder.
A former Russian military intelligence (GRU) officer, Utkin fought in Chechnya, Syria and Ukraine, and was awarded the title of Hero of Russia.
In one of the few known photographs of him, he appears with a shaved head and various Nazi tattoos.
Also among the ten occupants of the wrecked Embraer Legacy 600 was Valeri Chekalov, responsible for the personal safety of Yevgeny Prigozhin and part of its businesses, recently sanctioned by the United States.
The Wagners will continue in Belarus
Lukashenko assured that the mercenaries of the Grupo Wagner They will continue in Belarus, where they settled following the failure of their rebellion.
“Wagner he is alive and will live in Belarus no matter how much some do not want him,” said the president, quoted by the official Belarusian agency BELT.
He downplayed satellite images showing the camp has been reduced in size. Wagner in the Mogilev region in eastern Belarus.
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