{"id":2009400,"date":"2023-08-23T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-has-been-beheaded-prigozhin-deemed-assassinated-two-months-after-failed-coup\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:01:31","slug":"wagner-has-been-beheaded-prigozhin-deemed-assassinated-two-months-after-failed-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-has-been-beheaded-prigozhin-deemed-assassinated-two-months-after-failed-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner&#8217;s beheading: Prigozhin labeled &#8216;assassinated&#8217; post failed coup."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwagner-has-been-beheaded-prigozhin-deemed-assassinated-two-months-after-failed-coup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2009400&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russian Paramilitary Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin Believed to Have Been Killed \u2062in Plane Crash<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wont-lift-iran-sanctions-until-they-stop-uranium-enrichment-still-wants-to-rejoin-deal\/\" title=\"Biden won\u2019t lift Iran sanctions until they stop uranium enrichment, still wants to rejoin deal\">state media<\/a>, Russian\u2063 paramilitary \u200dchief Yevgeny \u2062Prigozhin is believed to have\u200b been\u200c killed after a plane in which he was &#8220;listed among\u2062 the passengers&#8221; crashed in Russia on \u2063Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYevgeny\u2064 Prigozhin was listed among the passengers\u2062 on the\u2063 plane that crashed in the Tver region,\u201d according\u200c to \u200dan unofficial \u200ctranslation of a TASS report. \u201cIn the plane that\u2063 crashed \u200cin the Tver \u200bregion, among the \u200cpassengers\u200c was Yevgeny\u200d Prigozhin &#8211; Rosaviatsia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A senior \u2063European official surmised \u200cto the Washington Examiner that it was an &#8220;assassination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Recent Events and Speculations<\/h3>\n<p>The incident comes just \u200dtwo months after the longtime Wagner Group chief led his forces in\u200c a brief but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-who-called-for-innocent-republicans-to-be-fired-post-j6-complain-their-party-faces-consequences-for-inciting-tennessee-insurrection\/\" title=\"Democrats Who Called For Innocent Republicans To Be Fired Post-J6 Complain Their Party Faces Consequences For Inciting Tennessee Insurrection\">tumultuous march<\/a>\u200d towards \u200bMoscow in\u2064 June, with the\u200c stated goal of\u200d ousting Russian defense leaders. That \u200cabortive uprising was halted within \u200da day, as Belarusian dictator Alexander\u200b Lukashenko claimed to \u2063have brokered an agreement to avert a major \u2062confrontation. He has attended Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s \u2063Africa summit\u200c last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The speed at which the Russian Govt has confirmed Yevgeny Prigozhin was on a plane that crashed\u2063 on\u2062 a flight \u200cfrom Moscow\u2064 to St Petersburg should tell us everything we need\u200c to know,&#8221; senior British lawmaker Alicia Kearns, who chairs the\u200b Foreign Affairs Committee in the\u2062 House of Commons, wrote on social media. &#8220;Reports \u2064Russian Air Defence\u200c shot down the plane \u2062suggests Putin is sending a very loud message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin had continued\u2064 to send his\u2062 own \u2062messages \u200cin\u2062 the months since\u200b the coup, striking\u200d a \u200dpose\u2064 as a patriotic powerbroker despite\u200c his\u200c insubordination.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPMC Wagner\u2026 makes \u200cRussia even greater on all continents, and Africa more \u200dfree,\u201d Prigozhin said \u200cin\u2062 a video\u200c published this week. \u201cWe\u2019re recruiting \u2063real heroes and continue to carry out the tasks \u2062that have been set and that we promised to deal with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The plane went down on the same day \u2064that Russian authorities confirmed the sacking of General Sergei Surovikin, who disappeared following Prigozhin&#8217;s uprising\u2062 amid \u2063an apparent Kremlin effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-has-been-beheaded-prigozhin-deemed-assassinated-two-months-after-failed-coup\/\" title=\"Wagner's beheading: Prigozhin labeled 'assassinated' post failed coup.\">identify complicit military officials<\/a>. Wagner Group \u200dcommander Dmitry Utkin also has been reported to have\u2064 been on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wagner has been beheaded,&#8221; a \u200bpro-war telegram channel, VChK-OGPU, assessed\u2063 in a post on the crash.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing\u200d story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian paramilitary leader, is reportedly dead following a plane crash in Russia. State media suggests that he was among the passengers on the ill-fated flight in the Tver region, as per an unofficial translation of a TASS report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}