2023-07-06 18:00:00
Russian dissident in exile in Britain claims to have tracked down Putin’s plane at the time Lukashenko “is in Prigozhin Russia”
Allegations have been raised that Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured) left the Kremlin Palace and fled outside Moscow when Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, a Russian private mercenary company, launched an armed rebellion on the 23rd of last month and advanced 200 km in front of Moscow in one day. done. This is in contrast to the fact that the Russian government has consistently denied the rumors of President Putin’s escape, which has been raised by some. Analysts say that if true, it shows that the Putin regime accepted Prigozhin’s rebellion as a much more serious threat than expected.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ran the oil company ‘Yukos’ and once reigned as Russia’s richest man, but exiled abroad due to a disagreement with President Putin, said in an interview with Newsweek, an American news media on the 5th, “At the time of the rebellion, he (Putin) was really It appears to be out of Moscow. It is highly likely that he went to Baldai, where the mansion is located,” he revealed. Valdai is about 400 km northwest of Moscow.
Khodorkovsky also said that President Putin’s private plane departed from Moscow on the 24th of last month and headed northwest, and was lost somewhere around Valday. In addition to President Putin at the time, several senior Russian leaders said they had left Moscow.
The Russian independent media ‘Current Time’ also cited ‘Flightradar 24’, a website specializing in tracking US aircraft, and reported that President Putin’s private plane ‘IL-96’ left Moscow at 2:16 pm on the 24th of last month. The plane lost track west of Tver, close to Valdai, after 23 minutes.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who helped Prigozhin go to Belarus after mediating the negotiations between President Putin and Prigozhin, told CNN on the 6th that “Prigozhin is currently in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city.” President Putin and Prigozhin are both from St. Petersburg.
Firearms found at Prigozhin’s house and wigs On the 5th, Russian state broadcasting released images of guns, gold bars and bundles of money found at the home and office of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private mercenary company ‘Wagner Group’ (upper photo). Prigogine’s disguise wig was also found. twitter capture
On the 5th, Russia’s state-run ‘Rosiya 1 Broadcasting’ released footage of the police special forces raiding the Prigozhin mansion and office in St. Petersburg. A bundle of about 600 million rubles (about 8.5 billion won) in the office, a bundle of US dollars in the house, and a wig for disguise appeared. It is evaluated as part of an attempt to discredit Prigozhin’s image in Russia.
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