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    Wagner 'skull' flag flies over empty Prigozhin plane crash site in Russia

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    In Kuzhenkino, Russia, a black Wagner flag flies next to a mound of rocks surrounded by flowers at the site of a plane crash that claimed the life of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia’s most powerful mercenary, along with nine others. The private jet carrying Prigozhin and others crashed on August 23 during a trip from Moscow to St Petersburg. The wreckage of the Embraer Legacy 600 jet has been cleared, as seen in footage obtained by Reuters. All that remains is a makeshift memorial made up of four boulders and red carnations, along with the white-skull Wagner flag flying on a pole made from a tree branch with the words “PMC Wagner Group” in both English and Russian.

    The cause of the crash is still unknown, but witnesses near the crash site reported hearing a loud noise before witnessing the jet’s descent. The incident occurred exactly two months after Prigozhin took control of Rostov, a southern city, initiating a mutiny that unsettled the foundations of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia. On Wednesday, the Kremlin stated that investigators were considering the possibility that the plane carrying Prigozhin was intentionally downed, marking the first explicit acknowledgment of a potential assassination.

    Source: The Star
    Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Philippa Fletcher



    Credit: The Star : News Feed

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