Rumours Wagner boss Prigozhin ‘faked his death’ after second jet emerges

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Rumours have started to swirl that Yevgeny Prigozhin has "faked his death" and wasn't on a plane that went down, after claims were made about a second plane landing safely.

Following the news of a plane crash near Moscow which is said to have had the warlord on board, competing claims have argued a second flight has landed in Moscow.

The first jet went down in a well-documented fireball, but according to a tweet from open source security Twitter account OSINTtechnical, a second plane belonging to Prigozhin touched down safely.

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Posting a screen grab of the flight via flight tracking software, the account said: "Prigozhin’s other Legacy 650, RA-02748, just landed in Moscow."

And now attention has turned to whether the warlord is actually dead, especially given the fact that he has previously faked his own death and was declared dead in Africa in 2019, before re-emerging three days later.

That, too, was an apparent plane crash. An-27 military aircraft crashed with eight people on board in the Democratic Republic of Congo and it was reported at the time that Prigozhin was onboard and among the dead.

Even still, Russia's Civil Aviation Authority has said that the 62-year-old is dead.

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Keir Giles, a Russia expert with the international affairs think tank Chatham House, said this isn't necessarily true.

He said: "Multiple individuals have changed their name to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, as part of his efforts to obfuscate his travels.

"Let's not be surprised if he pops up shortly in a new video from Africa."

Sky News’ military expert Sean Bell discussed this possibility after yesterday's crash, too.

"This might have been an engineered story for Prigozhin to slip quietly away and live in exile somewhere, under a wig and with a degree of privacy," he said.

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