The Wagner Group Chief : Evgeny Prigozhin Killed (confirmed) —Private Plane Crash…

It has been officially confirmed and acknowledged by Russian authorities that the infamous Russian private military contractor  Mr. Evgeny Prigozhin has been killed in a plane crash where he was one of the passengers confirmed to be onboard on the private jet they were travelling in.

The jet they were travelling had gradually descended while fuming smoke and had crashed in the region of “Tver” according to the Russian Emergencies Ministry. According to official statistics there were three crew members and seven passengers on board while the jet crashed and everyone on board has been confirmed to have been killed.

Within the time of the incident the Russian Emergencies Ministry states the jet was travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg. And the make and model of the jet said to be Embraer 135BJ Legacy 600.

The Russian federal air transport agency- Rosaviatsiya, said other passengers on board were Wagner groups hi ranking Commanding officers.

Several video footage has been circulating throughout Russian social media platforms that are unfamiliar to many Sri Lanka’s to International viewers. Within those videos it shows the jet is plummeting towards the ground in an uncontrollable spin. It is very clear that the tail section had caught fire. Russian officials had said they still cannot definitely speculate what may have caused the Fire at the tail section of the plane.

Russian authorities had officially announced the death of Evgeny Prigozhin. It is still can be speculated that he may not have been killed.

Authorities who were at the scene of the crash have said they have recovered eight badly burned bodies, and so far none of the bodies has been specifically identified.

At the midst of all this there were contradictory unconfirmed reports published stating that Prigozhin  had owned two separate aircrafts with tail numbers RA-02795 and RA-02878 According to FlightRadar24. According to these reports the plane carrying tail number RA-02878 departed from Moscow shortly before the crashed aircraft and had returned to the ground after being notified that the plane had crashed.

According to The Russian federal air transport agency (Rosaviatsiya) other individual suspected of being on board identified as Dmitry Utkin – a former Russian special forces operator and alleged co-founder of the PMC – was also traveling on the jet, as was Valery Chekalov, whom the US considers to be the deputy head of Wagner. The remaining passengers listed were Sergey Propustin, Evgeny Makaryan, Alexander Totmin, and Nikolay Matuseev, identified by Russian news outlets as Wagner (Please be noted these recollections are not officially confirmed).

What is known so far of Evgeny Prigozhin is that Even for to this day he is still a fugitive wanted by the United States and FBI for war crimes  committed in many regions throughout the world from Ukraine to Syria to many African States. Evgeny Prigozhin was a very close friend of the Russian President and founded the Wagner Group, a private military company (PMC), in 2014.

Within the recent Ukraine conflict for the battle for the city of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine) Evgeny Prigozhin had commented and accused Russian armed forces of inadequate supply of ammunition and military hardware and  for the front line Wagner soldiers and abandoning them. He is said to have played a key role in the revolt against the Russian president and staging a military coup within Moscow that took place in the June of 2023.

 Evgeny Prigozhin claimed Russian forces deliberately shelled Wagner field camps, where the it’s troops were resting and rearming following the capture of Artyomovsk the previous month. The Wagner founder then announced that he would lead his forces in a march on Moscow to remove allegedly corrupt military officials who were responsible for the alleged attacks on his military divisions.

Russian President Putin, described the mutiny as a “stab in the back” for the whole Russian Armed forces and promised “decisive actions” to restore order and command. But just a day after it began, the rebellion was diffused through the mediation done by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. And as result Evgeny Prigozhin agreed that the men who took part in the mutiny would be redeployed to Belarus, while those who refused would be incorporated into units under the control of the Russian Defense Ministry.