Downing of Prigozhin's plane sends signal to Russian elites ahead of elections: Zelenskyy's Office states
Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the Head of the President's Office (Photo: Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine)
The plane crash involving Wagner PMC leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is a signal to political opponents of Putin and the Russian elite, according to the statement of the advisor to the head of the President's Office, Mykhailo Podolyak.
"It's obvious that Putin forgives no one for his own bestial fear - exactly the kind that zeroed him in June 2023 - and waited for the right moment. It's also evident that Prigozhin signed himself a special death sentence the moment he believed in strange 'guarantees from Lukashenko' and in no less absurd 'honest word' from Putin," Podolyak wrote.
He notes that the symbolic removal of Prigozhin and the Wagner PMC command two months after the coup attempt is a signal from Putin to the Russian elites ahead of the 2024 elections.
Aircraft crash in the Tver region
Today videos of a plane crash in the Tver region of Russia began to widely circulate on the internet. Later, it was established that it was the Embraer Legacy 600 business jet, with ten people on board. All of them perished.
Meanwhile, Telegram channels were disseminating information that the plane belonged to the founder of the Wagner Private Military Company, Yevgeny Prigozhin. He was purportedly considered a passenger.
