Outside the Wagner PMC headquarters in St. Petersburg, Russia, a crowd, including former mercenaries, celebrated leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is believed to have died in a plane crash Wednesday, two months after he launched an attempted coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some Wagner adherents are convinced Prigozhin is not dead.
Supporters of Wagner Group leader Yevegny Prigozhin, who is believed to have been killed in a dramatic plane crash, have started laying flowers outside the former headquarters of the mercenary outfit in St.
hours ago in the tver region. the russian authorities published a list of some of the ten passengers onboard. there were three crew, seven passengers. and they include the boss of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, and some of his top lieutenants, including dmitry utkin, who founded the mercenary group as well as one of his top lieutenants, also sanctioned by the u.s. government by the treasury department. now, the russian officials say that they have launched a criminal investigation into this crash trying to determine the cause of it. meantime, we are seeing that some of the telegram groups, russian social media groups that were affiliated with wagner and supporters of prigozhin are claiming that he was actually killed and we ve seen some supporters up in st. petersburg, that s where his headquarters is, wagner center, already laying flowers there and