The Federal Air Transport Agency has published a list of passengers who were allegedly on board the crashed plane of Yevgeny Prigozhin . We found out who they were.

✈️ Valery Chekalov is one of the Concorde managers closest to Prigogine. He oversaw all of Prigozhin's "civilian" projects abroad and was responsible for the logistical support of the Wagner group. It was Chekalov who headed JSC Neva, the founder of Euro Polis LLC, to which all Syrian and African projects were tied

✈️ Dmitry Utkin . Prigozhin's right hand in the Wagner PMC. Responsible for command and combat training.

✈️ Yevgeny Makaryan , call sign "Makar". Former precinct. He joined Wagner in March 2016 . He was part of the fourth Wagner assault detachment in Syria, which came under fire from American aircraft near Khsham in January 2017.

✈️ Sergey Propustin , call sign "Kedr", ensign. He joined Wagner in March 2015. He fought in the second reconnaissance and assault detachment. Prigozhin recruited many personal guards from there.

✈️ Alexander Totmin , callsign "Tot".

✈️ Nikolai Matuseev . We could not find a person with that name on the Wagner lists. But there is Nikolai Matusevich . At Wagner since January 2017. He served as a shooter in the fourth assault detachment in Syria.

Meanwhile, Prigozhin's wife Lyubov continues her long-planned vacation in India , says a Dossier source familiar with the family.

We do not know whether the information about the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin can be trusted. But if it is confirmed, it will mean that fewer and fewer people remain alive who are familiar with the circumstances of the murder of Russian journalists in the Central African Republic in 2019. We appeal to the employees of Prigozhin's "Company": if you know any details of the crime in the Central African Republic, contact the "Dossier" Center and tell your story. We will not be in debt.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, THAT'S what air defense doing.

[–] gifferqqq@artemis.camp 0 points 1 year ago

Dammit you beat me to this joke hahaha

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would not have been his pilot after the mutiny.

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Sure, we've had one mutiny, but... What about second mutiny?

I don't think he knows about second mutiny, Pip.

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago

Well that gives new meaning to “ falling out of a window”.

[–] _errer@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Prigo: I’m ready to die

Poot: k

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would've been so easy for Putin to assassinate him but of course they take the route involving murdering a bunch of random civilians alongside him and potentially endangering more on the ground

[–] StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I very much doubt that the people on the private plane with that guy were chosen completely at random.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a difference between a Mafia boss and his limo driver. Maybe they aren't scott free but they aren't the ones murdering Ukrainians

[–] Impulsivedoorholder@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

5 of the people listed including Prigozhin were literally responsible for helping in killing, with one of them being his right hand man.

Allegedly, of course. The pilots were maybe the limo driver, but the whole mafia was sitting in back.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The whole Mafia could literally be arrested/assassinated at any time. Putin has thousands of thugs that he could devote to taking out every last Wagner leader if he wanted to. Or just flat out arrest them for bullshit charges and kill them in jail etc. This wasn't some once in a lifetime opportunity.

Instead we have 3 crew members of a commercial airplane, who could've been any "random civilians", and potentially another family or 2 if that plane crashed into a house/market/etc.

I'm not expressing surprise that "of course" Putin takes this callous and expedient approach, because that's who he is. It's just an observation of a sad reality.

[–] Impulsivedoorholder@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

You have to remember that Putin is trying to play the media fiddle.

He could probably get away with assassination of his biggest threats, but that wouldn't be media friendly.

Everyone assumes Putin shot the plane down, but there is no conclusive evidence, so he is still not the bad guy.

The plane he was on was a civilian travel plane, but it is also not a public airliner. The people on board were all very likely aware of the dangers of being transported with the Russian leader's most recent mutiny subject on board.

To assume they just boarded a plane randomly is a big stretch. That's like saying you hopped on Taylor Swifts airplane and didn't realize she was on it.

Putin is way more willing to put the lives of his own people at risk to portray a certain picture to the global media. Which yes, I agree is a sad reality.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

these people were top command of wagner

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A bomb is much, much more efficient than a missile. I’d be very surprised if a missile was used. Also, it would be unlikely for both him and Utzin to be on the same plane, for exactly this reason.

It’s going to be hard to unpack all these rumors for a few days unless we see a living Utzin or Prigozhin soon. A strong possible narrative here would be Utzin selling out his boss in exchange for amnesty, in which case it behooves him to disappear.

Edit: notice we don’t see a missile exhaust trail to the aircraft and a burst pattern for one in the start of the video. With the war on, there are plenty of videos showing a missile strike on an aircraft to compare to.

[–] Wilshire@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The smoke trail on the left at the start of the video was reported to be from the missile. There are a few photos that claim to show damage from an S-300 missile. However, I've heard rumors about a box of wine that was gifted to them before takeoff, and another about unusual plane maintenance.

I've updated the title to reflect the current level of uncertainty.

Also this:

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago

Okay with the last picture I’m upping my suspicion of a rocket a bit more.

[–] instamat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a box of wine

You mean, like, Franzia?

[–] joneskind@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The Wagner group confirmed the information

[–] Ph0mX@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New rumor: its possible Prigozhin wasn’t actually on the plane.

Apparently he frequently registers for one plane, then boards another one, for personal security reasons.

Sources

Masto: https://nafo.uk/@hanse_mina/110940183602758010

Telegram: https://t.me/bbbreaking/163418

[–] Wilshire@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

[–] joneskind@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

The Wagner group confirmed he was killed

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'll be interesting to see how the Russian military tries to save face if he survived.

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Off the top of my head: prigozhin crashed his own plane so he could blame it on us. Seems like something they would do

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well now isn't this surprising news that nobody could have seen coming lol

[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I figured he was going to be killed but my bet was on the old "fell from a window"

[–] JuzoInui@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Whoa. Now that Wagners #1 got dusted, I guess all his little green men shut their shoulders and go back to plowing potatoes, right? Yah, right. Now that the demon lord is dead, all his minions have be given free reign to do to Putin what he did to their boss. Stay tuned…

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Ooh-ooh-ooh! Do Putin next!! 🤩🙌🏽

[–] rogerhaase@mastodon.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Wilshire We do not know if the monster is dead. It was on the passenger list, but we don't know if it actually was on the plane.
Prigozhin might have staged it. I don't know how likely that is. Even if his corpse gets identified by the russian liars - do we believe this? Let's wait and get more information.

[–] Wilshire@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, he's "reportedly" dead, but we may never know since his body was burned. I thinks it's 50/50.

[–] Ezergill@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would be the point of staging it? I'm not denying that there is a possibility, just don't see a reason for him to do it

[–] Tiptopit@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

If people think you are dead, you've got better chances of not falling out of a window.

[–] carbonprop@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All Ukraine needs is one insider to let intelligence know poo man’s movements. Then pop goes the poo man. Do the world a favour and make him fall out a window already.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I would be actually surprised if the US didn't know exactly where he is.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Woah!

What country did this happen in? He was previously sticking to Belarus, Russia, and Africa.

[–] Ph0mX@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

He should have left Russia completely, when he had a chance

[–] Wilshire@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

The private jet belonging to Prigozhin was shot down by Russian air defence while flying from Moscow to St Petersburg this is from grey zone a Wagner affiliated telegram channel

“The Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with registration number RA-02795, which belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin, was shot down by air defense fire in the Bologovsky district of the Tver region.

https://t.me/combat_ftg

[–] eggymachus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

TASS reports that it happened in Tver Oblast northwest of Moscow.

[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I already read a report that there were 2 planes, of which the 2nd returned after the incident... I'm curious if he was on the 1st (shot down) plane or the 2nd.

When he was in the 2nd and survived things could 'get interesting' in Russia.

May Putin live in interesting times.

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did Prigozhin not see something like this coming?

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is my understanding that missiles fly at a high rate of speed and are difficult to see as they approach.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

And remember from the missile's perspective:

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

[–] OniiFam@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[–] Cpo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I know 😂

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can you tell whose plane it is?

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The transponder.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK thanks, it looks like it was confirmed by multiple sources. Now about who shot it down: are we sure it was Russian military?

[–] aux@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

You tell me: https://streamable.com/8mfd8r

[–] paboppa@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

Do we know how the wagnerites are reacting ?

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And nothing of value was lost