A Russian political analyst claims Yevgeny Prigozhin survived the plane crash thought to have killed him and his top commanders and is now lying low in an island paradise
Yevgeny Prigozhin survived the plane crash and is now hiding out in Venezuela, according to a Russian political analyst.
The Wagner warlord is “alive and well” on the Caribbean paradise island of Margarita, according to Dr Valery Solovey, who also claims Vladimir Putin is terminally ill and that all current appearances of the Kremlin president are by two doppelgängers controlled by the secret services. Ukrainian military intelligence this week raised the possibility that billionaire Prigozhin remained alive. The agency said it could not confirm his death.
Now Solovoy – seen by some as a conspiracy theorist – said without offering proof: “I promised to tell where [Yevgeny Prigozhin] is. He is in Venezuela⦠As far as I know, he is on an island called Margaritaâ¦.” Solovoy claimed his sources said that Prigozhin was warned of the impending plane crash, and given a route to avoid being on board.
“Yevgeny Prigozhin was warned about his assassinationâ¦that his plane would be destroyed,” he said. “Yes, he was warned.” He claimed that a deal was hatched involving Putin and his presidential security supremo Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council. “They developed the âtrick’ that we observed,” he said. “When Wagner’s key commanders died [in the plane crash], Yevgeny Prigozhin remained alive and well.”