Important Takeaways:
- With Prigozhin’s death, there’s no sign Putin is losing control
- Putin’s longtime associate and the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, was most certainly eliminated on the orders of the Godfather of the Kremlin.
- Prigozhin and Chekalov, were both listed on the manifest of the doomed flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg, where the Wagner Group is headquartered, that killed 10 passengers.
- There are reports that the plane was shot down
- Prigozhin may or may not actually have been on the plane, however. He, and perhaps Chekalov as well, may simply have been assassinated elsewhere. For convenience sake, a plane crash would have provided excellent cover for their elimination.
- Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death hardly comes as a surprise; the only issue was when it would occur.
- It perhaps it is no coincidence that, a few hours before Prigozhin’s death, the Kremlin announced that General Sergei Surovikin (whose nickname is “General Armageddon”), viewed by many observers as a Prigozhin ally, had been fired as head of Russia’s Air Forces.
- The combination of Prigozhin’s death and Surovikin’s firing are certainly a message to Putin’s potential internal opponents that they should think twice before acting against him.
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