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

Decided not to delete this post due to the many comments and discussions.

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.

World’s most expected accident victim.

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

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.

A blind man could have seen that coming.

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.

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✅

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

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.

Thoughts and prayers

The airplane itself mysteriously fell out of a window.