ok what the fuck is happening in ukraine

reliability warning -- this is julia ioffe

Some Telegram channels associated with Wagner are saying that there’s a second Prigozhin plane, now zig-zagging over Moscow, and that Prigozhin might be on it. Wishful thinking? https://t.co/nL2oqQvI4S

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 23, 2023

Conspiracy Twitter deciding that Prigozhin faked his own death, citing as evidence that his Wikipedia entry already lists him as dead. Do you guys not know how fast Wiki Death Ghouls are?

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000270571664-lygkdn-t500x500.jpg

schrodinger's wiki entry

I was honestly sceptical that they'd off him so soon, as it'd be too obvious that it was an assassination. I was wrong!

They got Statler Prigozhin, but they forgot about Waldorf Prigozhin

cia finally got one right

"Putin is someone who generally thinks that revenge is a dish best served cold."

CIA Director William Burns advises mutiny leader Yevgeny Prigozhin not to fire his food taster as "Putin is the ultimate apostle of payback". pic.twitter.com/8k6glRybc9

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) July 21, 2023

He just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say. Whether you agreed or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that. pic.twitter.com/mM2JeLXbEe

— forcefemmed calvinist (@Sharon_Kuruvila) August 23, 2023

This is me, being sad.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4O7sCcagAA_R1S?format=jpg&name=medium

this former Russian special forces officer guy had loads of nazi tattoos, nowt stranger than volk

yarp

Pleasant looking fellow.

wait a minute, I thought Russia was fighting AGAINST Nazis?

we have seen the nazis and it is us

you'd there would be some dissonance there because they did commit a genocidal war of annihilation against them and considered them subhuman slav scum.

it's a shame that pretty face got melted in an inferno!

Damn, did wilco johnson get the boomer brainworms as well

modern russian masculinity seems mad corny to me

lol even in hell

“The head of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a true patriot of his Motherland * Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin died as a result of the actions of traitors to Russia,” a post in the Grey Zone channel said.

“But even in Hell, he will be the best! Glory to Russia!”

i mean that's not wrong

a chef in hell's kitchen

new fash in hell

"YOU TOLD ME OAT MILK IN YOUR LATTE!"

Special Barista Forces

He will make the devil wait two hours for his dinner

new fash in hell

no 'Putin so smart to do this' from Trump yet?

Alexander Dugin lionizes Yevgeny Prigozhin after his death

He says Prigozhin "died like a man" and praised him as a servant of the Lord

— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) August 23, 2023

Men die in plane crashes, everyone knows that.

no-one does cope like loyalist paramilitaries pic.twitter.com/OHVI4ByJhk

— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) August 23, 2023

should've added 'human rights activist, anti-colonial fighter, children's writer and whistleblower' https://t.co/x1pT1oHkci

— molecular vernacular (@vikkink) August 23, 2023

yarp

Very specific lol

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/prigozhins-body-taken-medical-examiners-103245304.html

"As for the aviation tragedy, first of all, I want to express my sincerest condolences to the families of all the victims," Putin said in an on-camera address, adding that Wagner Group made a "significant contribution to our common cause of fighting the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine."

"I knew (Yevgeny) Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 1990s. He was a man with a complex destiny, and he made serious mistakes in life," Putin said. "He achieved the results he needed both for himself and, when I asked him, for the common cause, as in these last months."

Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg -- Prigozhin’s home town -- dozens of people have been arriving to light candles and drop flowers at a pop-up memorial.

The jet manufacturer that Prigozhin and Utkin were reportedly on has an impeccable record and it was the first recorded crash in the history of the Embraer Legacy 600.

Isn't falling out of a first floor window cheaper. Were his 10 companions people marked for disposal for a reason too or something.
Like do assume he must have been expecting this to happen at some time and must have been reluctant to travel anywhere not under his own agency like. But is it like waiting for the other boot to drop which will eventually happen inevitably.

guy who has a personal army might not be that easy to get to

but yeah removing more of the wagner leadership mightve been part of the plan too

https://t.co/9sTuYSi0Sb pic.twitter.com/0v7VojqzGu

— Erik Baker (@erikmbaker) August 24, 2023

the doubles have entered the discourse

I’ve been doing the Bane voice “crashing this plane.. with no survivors!” bit since a headline said exactly that

I dunno, if Putin said he didn't do it, that's good enough for me.

Rishi Sunak says UK intelligence services consider it was "most likely" he was on the plane 🙄

he just posted his "overlooked 50" on ilm

1. Guillemots - Through the Windowpane

wait, what's this about a plane?

lot's of bossa nova deep cuts in his 50, he's a total Brazilophile

2. The Coup- Pick a Bigger Weapon

3. Raekwon - Criminology

Tom Petty - “Learning To Fly”

and then "Free Fallin'"

Dave Matthews, "Crash Into Me"

Burning Airlines- "Earthbound"