UK military believes Prigozhin's death was organised by FSB
UK military circles believe that the most likely scenario surrounding the crash of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane is that Russian secret services were behind it.
Source: BBC Russian Service
Details: BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner spoke to sources in UK military circles. They consider that the most likely scenario is that the crash of Prigozhin’s jet was perpetrated by the Federal Security Service.
FSB officers are completely loyal to Putin and the border guard service is subordinate to them, sources indicate.
In their opinion, the purpose of this was probably to strengthen the positions of Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov, "and this goal has been achieved for the time being."
Background:
- A plane belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin (an Embraer Legacy 600) crashed on 23 August in the village of Kuzhenkino in Russia's Tver Oblast. The plane was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg. 10 people were killed (7 passengers, 2 pilots and a flight attendant). According to the passenger manifest, Yevgeny Prigozhin and the management of the Wagner Group were on board.".
- On 24 August, bodies of all 10 people killed in the crash of a business jet were taken to a morgue for forensic examination.
- The Russian media saw a certain symbolism in the fact that the plane crash occurred on 23 August, exactly two months after the rebellion of the Wagner PMC (Prigozhin announced his "march of justice" on the evening of 23 June).
- US President Joe Biden suggested that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, may be behind the plane crash.
- Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin took revenge for the humiliation of the Wagner Group’s mutiny and ordered the assassination of their leadership.
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