Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Prigozhin air crash- suspicious?

102 replies

Theworried2 · 23/08/2023 18:44

Prigozhin is suspected of being on the aircraft that crashed near Moscow today.
He is suspected to have died in it.

surely this seems suspicious and perhaps this was not an accident.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66599733

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin feared dead after Russia plane crash

The Russian private military company boss was on the passenger list of the jet which came down near Moscow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66599733

OP posts:
ClareBlue · 23/08/2023 19:01

I don't think they are even pretending it was an accident now. Latest is that it was shot down by the Russian military and it's not being denied, according to BBC.

mateysmum · 23/08/2023 19:02

Samsonsmum · 23/08/2023 18:51

He didn't fall out of the plane window though

Ooh I don't know. Opening a window on a plane is a pretty good way of making it crash!

Nobody threatens Putin and dies of old age.

EffortlesslyInelegant · 23/08/2023 19:03

The only surprising things about this are that it took this long and that he didn't foresee it. Anyone with half a brain could foresee this!

IClaudine · 23/08/2023 19:04

I'm sure it was totally accidental.

L1ttledrummergirl · 23/08/2023 19:06

pizzaHeart · 23/08/2023 18:54

Of course it’s not an accident and of course we can’t guarantee that he was actually on a plane , he was on the list of passengers- it’s different.

Edited

Of course it was an accident, anything else would be typically Russian outrageous.

Off topic, you have an edit button?

longwayoff · 23/08/2023 19:08

It's a surprise to nobody including him.

BarelyLiterate · 23/08/2023 19:11

Video of the alleged crash site has just dropped on Sky News. Big mess. Nobody has survived that, so if Prigozhin was on board, he’s history.

BlastedPimples · 23/08/2023 19:11

Was only a matter of time ......

LateSummerLobelia · 23/08/2023 19:12

DuckyShincracker · 23/08/2023 18:59

I don't think you need to be Hercule Poiriot to find this suspicious! Poor guy never stood a chance really.

Not poor guy.

He was a brutal murderer. His goons clingfilmed people's heads to cement blocks then sledge hammered them to death., His goons castrated Ukrainian soldiers with stanley knives and held their testicles in front of them. All with his express permission and instruction. They raped and murdered ukrainian women. The murdered innocent civilians.

Personally, I think he may be dead or may not. The okane might have been a decoy with 10 others killed while he has been taken somewhere else. The tturh is something we will never ever find out.

LateSummerLobelia · 23/08/2023 19:14

*plane

LittleGreenDuck · 23/08/2023 19:14

DuckyShincracker · 23/08/2023 18:59

I don't think you need to be Hercule Poiriot to find this suspicious! Poor guy never stood a chance really.

Poor guy?!

I'm assuming you don't know much about him.

Chowtime · 23/08/2023 19:19

I don't think it was an accident either but I don;t care. The man has caused nothing but heartache and misery all over the world including Syria.

As others have said, i'm only surprised it wasn't sooner.

pizzaHeart · 23/08/2023 19:20

L1ttledrummergirl · 23/08/2023 19:06

Of course it was an accident, anything else would be typically Russian outrageous.

Off topic, you have an edit button?

Yes, and just used it first time !!! There is a MNHQ thread about this new feature in Site stuff ( appeared this morning)

PleaseGiveMeBackMySummer · 23/08/2023 19:20

Yep. Assassinated (I suspect!)

Marcipex · 23/08/2023 19:23

I’m sorry for the crew, and yes, I wonder if he’s really in a cell somewhere in Siberia.

BabyShaark · 23/08/2023 19:23

Accidents happen …

Gymnopedie · 23/08/2023 19:24

My enemy's enemy is not necessarily my friend.

Just because Putin had it in for him doesn't mean he's a hero to the west.

MrsTerryPratchett · 23/08/2023 19:24

Sometimes there is no good answer. He was an utter scumbag but was briefly opposition on some level to another utter scumbag.

The world on average is probably slightly better today than yesterday.

And no, not an accident unless he really is the unluckiest man in the world. Putin's after you and you die in an accident? What are the chances?

Crikeyalmighty · 23/08/2023 19:25

Well it makes a change from falling out a 10th floor window

Hooferr · 23/08/2023 19:26

I'm confused. I thought we were down to hate all Russians these days but it seems we're now being asked to nothate this one because he fucked Putin off and Putin is worse than anyone in the world ever.

Please tell me how to think.

ClaraThePigeon · 23/08/2023 19:28

The world on average is probably slightly better today than yesterday.

Slightly better? I don't know who the other 6 dead were but I think the family of the three crew members would have a very different opinion. What good resulted from their deaths?

Hooferr · 23/08/2023 19:29

Let's just say it wasn't a Guardians of the galaxy crew

tenbob · 23/08/2023 19:29

Totalwasteofpaper · 23/08/2023 18:53

My DH predicted this or death in a car "accident"

Literally everyone who read any news around his attempted coup predicted this..!

The only surprise is that it took this long

LateSummerLobelia · 23/08/2023 19:31

yeah its 2 months to the day of the attempted coup,

Putin has always loved an anniversary.

lljkk · 23/08/2023 19:32

The next rumours will be that he's still alive just keeping a low public profile. He'll live like Schrodinger's cat forever more.

Who TF cares? He didn't stop Putin. He's history either way. That's all we need to know.

Swipe left for the next trending thread