Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

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Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner chief presumed dead after Russia plane crash.

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Wow, I’ve been browsing Twitter, Reddit and Lemmy for the past few hours. I’m surprised to see such breaking news first in Lemmy instead of Twitter or Reddit.

Awesome! Hope the Fidiverse keeps on growing to become bigger than Reddit and Twitter.

Who would have expected this? Surprised pikachu

But the only one who opposed Putin (with any military power) being dead isn't necessary a good thing (imho)

Lotta windows in airplanes.

I'm honestly surprised that he lasted this long

Damn I was hoping he would be able to cause more chaos inside Russia before Putin had him killed.

One of the cardinal rules of power struggles is "If you're gonna shoot for the king, don't miss."

The guy wasn't stupid. He knew going against Putin meant death if he failed. At some point during his attempted coup, he realised it wasn't going to work and was faced with a choice: die now, or "back down" to scheme his way out of an almost certain death later. Turns out he couldn't. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠༼⁠ ⁠•́⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠•̀⁠ ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Oh well, nothing of value was lost.

Hey Putin! I heard Trump talking shit about you.

To think he avoided drinking polonium tea and falling out of a window and self inflicted gunshot wound to the head for all this time just to die in a freak tragic accident.

I wonder if there is a correlation between drop height and importance of the persons he's killing.

Plane must have accidentally ran into a surface-to-air missile. Y'know, as you do.

World’s most expected accident victim.

I’m so shocked right now. He didn’t fall out of a window?

Kind of interesting to note how the United States deals with an attempted coup versus Russia.

I think we all saw this coming.

He should have gone all the way when he started the mutiny against Putin. He would be dead either way but at least he had the chance to take Hitler's disciple with him to hell.

His fate was sealed when he (very briefly) went up against Putin. Right then and there he had a target on his head.

Prigozhin allegedly had a massive influence on 2016 USA elections with his troll farms.

I don't think Kremlin gave up on the 2024 elections, it's just now they have Musk.

A blind man could have seen that coming.

The airplane itself mysteriously fell out of a window.

Buried the lede a bit with that title, considering the plane was actually shot down

Selenskyj was right: Prigozhin will be dead after two months. And he isn't the only hardliner. I think within the last month six out of ten of the hardest hardliners fell out of the window. Or out of the sky.

Seems like Putin is currently liquidating the hardliners so there will be no negative feed back when he ends his "special operation" in a couple of weeks. Message at home will be: Wow, we did great, nobody objects and the world is in awe! And who disagrees will find an open window to jump through...

So he releases a video of himself in Africa. Then a plane with his name on the roster flies from Belarus to Moscow gets shot down. Anyone know if any planes belonging to Wagner flew from Africa to Belarus recently? This might be trick.

Checklist to become an accident in Russia.

Windows: checked✅
Heights: checked✅
Back: checked✅
Crony: checked✅
Potential adversary: checked✅

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Good.

He was a fucking dumbass piece of shit who deserves this for not following through on his coup.

This is not surprising at all lmao.

Took longer than I expected. Hopefully the same thing happens to Putin next.

"What could have possibly caused this crash killing a totally insignificant and unimportant person?!" -RT

Thoughts and prayers

Taking down a private plane in civilian airspace with Russian air defense is a surprising escalation, even for Putin. Even Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed by surrogate forces offering a certain amount of deniability.

The thing I find strange about this is, why was he in Russia to begin with? I thought he was last seen in Africa just a couple days ago. How'd he end up on a plane flying between Moscow and St. Petersburg?

[Thick Russian accent]: Foolish man, should not have gotten on a private plane, bad reputation private planes have. Very unsafe in these parts. Oh well, accidents happen...

Where, oh where are all of our apologists?

Maybe still figuring out what the "talking points" will be?

We're all waiting for the inevitable bullshit.

Of all the planes in the country he just happened to get on the one that lost a wing. Terrible luck!

NICE! #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Yay! 🥳 So “denazifying” Ukraine while having SS/nazi tattoos says everything about Wagner, Russia, Putin and all of these fascist cowards. Rest in piss, nazi scum!

I don't even know how to react to this news: On one hand ~~Wagner~~ Prigozhin is a person who is ideologically much worse than Putin (basically full-blown fascist as opposed to imperialist), but on the other hand he could have helped with increasing unrest in Russia which could technically mean chaos on Russian side of the front and opportunity for Ukraine to make some gains, but of course that's long time due, due to giving up on march on Moscow.

This for real? Figured it was coming but haven't seen any mention of it elsewhere.

While i dont like people being killed and everyone should get a fair trial, the world certainly isn't a worse place with this guy dead and i aint gonna shed a tear for him

9 other people.... show me other coup members!

Imagine living in Russia and pretending it's fine to just go about your day instead of marching on the Kreml with millions of others. Russians will have a very hard time in the world in the next couple of decades, similar to Germans after WW2.

Clearly he had a death sentence when he failed in his coup. Why he stayed though is beyond me. Did he think he was window-proof or he'd escape..

I am going to wait a few weeks before I take this as confirmed

"Yevgeny, It's Vladimir! Hey, no hard feelings buddy! Why don't you fly on over so we can put all of this behind us?"

Putin will personally head the investigation.

These Russian characters sure are dramatic. When this is all over I hope we get some good documentaries and movies about this whole special military operation fiasco.

Ok, I'll do it...
He's alive and well and this is a bit of theatre agreed upon between Putler and him to save face in all directions.*

*This is a conspiracy theory and not at all based on facts, don't quote me or take it too seriously

the plane collided with a passing-by missile, unfortunate accident

Well, Putin rigging an airplane crash is a bit more creative than the usual "jumped out of a hotel window" scenario...

"She fell funny"

Well I can't say he didn't deserve it.

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Am I the only one that thinks he staged his own death?

If anyone thinks this is going to change a thing about Wagner group, they're taking stupid pills.

These things are designed like any other group, someone will take his place.

Already second hard impact of a Russian envoy this week...

Such an unfortunate “accident”.

Chuck Norris is on the case! 🚨

Well that's convenient.

Amazing that Russia is shooting down aircraft inside their own borders.

The purge has begun.

Surprisingly late...

Any predictions for how Russia will spin this?

My guess, they’ll spread a conspiracy theory about him still being alive. They’ll claim this is a coverup so that he can appear dead and go into hiding.

This has to be a solid nomination for a Darwin award!

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1694397010680361239

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Things are getting worse in the Kremlin. Let Russia destroys itself from within.

Purely accidental, of course. No further questions.

This takes defenestration to a whole new level.

It would have been really nice if he had gotten a life sentence in prison instead of that. Just too simple escape for the terrorist. Also it was very stupid to trust dictator's words when you are half way through the coup of his country

Sad that 9 other (potentially innocent) people also had to die for this “accident”.

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As expected

He trusted putins word. Rookie mistake.

Who would have thought....

He shouldn't have crossed Bane

Woo!

Hopefully he's actually dead and this isn't some stupid stunt.

Who could have seen this coming? Shocked, I tell ya!

I'm surprised Putin still has ghouls that will carry out these ~~blatant political killing sprees~~, I mean, accidents

sounds like an air strike to me, or maybe just an accident

Clearly a case of Russian suicide. The kind only the state can arrange.

plane crash you

The thumbnail is quite unintentionally humorous

And then fell out of the airplane window.

Must be sitting in a window seat

The jet, which was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg

Wasn't he in Africa? I thought he'd recently been moved to Africa for the foreseeable future.

What a complete idiot.

Exploded and turned into scraps of mangled flesh strung across a hundred yards of debris, you say? Damn, hope he gets better.

I'm actually surprised he was in a plane. If i was him, after doing what he did, I wouldn't even go upstairs in my house.

I am absolutely shocked. Who could have possibly seen this coming?!

/s

Killer was killed by another killer. Who would ever guess!

KGB gonna KGB

I am SHOCKED. This is such weird timing. Shortly after staging a revolt against their fearless leader that made him look weak. I'm sure that is completely unrelated.

Well Putin seems to be killing everyone now. This along with the other former commander general. The world is truly losing great men, lol. They get what they deserve.