FLASH
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Maybe it was always just a matter of time...
Go up against, if not the Kremlin, then Russia's highest military command, and your days are likely numbered.
Of course, in Russia there is a form for unpleasant endings.
Russia's aviation agency has confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, his deputy Dmitry Utkin and his security chief, Valery Chekalov, were on board the Embraer plane that crashed north of Moscow.
If their death is confirmed, then the top ranks of the mercenary group's leadership are gone, in one fell swoop.
It's been two months since Prigozhin launched his short-lived rebellion in Moscow, abandoning his men halfway through intensive mediation by the Belarusian leader. Vladimir Putin faced one of the most dangerous moments of his presidency, and he vowed revenge but never followed through.
Prigozhin seemed to be enjoying free passage through Russia and Belarus. The accusations against him were thrown even as speculation spread that he would not and could not last much longer.
The last we saw of him was a video message from what appeared to be the African Sahel earlier in the week, promising in his own words to make Russia "even bigger" on all continents and Africa "even bigger cheap".
The clarity of what exactly caused this plane to go down will most likely take a long time, if indeed we will find out at all.
If Prigozhin was not on board, then we would certainly hear from him.
He's a man in the limelight and would be quick to fix the world - but even Telegram channels linked to Wagner are now declaring him dead.
Prigozhin's trolls, his caterers, his doctors and his mercenaries furthered the Kremlin's agenda, across continents, for more than a decade, but with his outspoken criticism of Russia's armed forces, he trod a tightrope. dangerously.
In recent weeks, his business empire has disintegrated and it appears he was walking away from his African relationships.
Whatever happened in the skies above the Tver region, his apparent death will prove one thing - that no one is indispensable.
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