An old interview in which Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said he would rather be killed than lie to his country and talked about a plane disintegrating in the sky has sparked a flood of online theories about his death.
Russia's aviation authority said the head of the Wagner group was on a private plane that crashed northwest of Moscow without survivors on Wednesday, exactly two months after he led a failed rebellion against army chiefs. The Kremlin rejected Western claims that he had been killed on his orders.
In an April 29 interview with Russian military blogger Semyon Pegov, Prigozhin said Russia was on the brink of disaster because the defense establishment was gradually ousting truth-tellers who refused to go along with Putin's propaganda.
"Today we have reached the boiling point. Why am I speaking so frankly? Because I have no right, in front of those people who will live in this country. Now they are lying to them. Better kill me," he said in the video published on Gray Zone, Wagner's Telegram channel.
He added: But I will not lie, I must honestly say that Russia is on the brink of disaster. And if these dents are not fixed today, then the plane will disintegrate in the air."
After these images, a mess has been caused in the network. Many commentators claim that Prigozhin knew about his elimination.
Some of them say that Prigozhin is still alive.
Others think the crash was the work of President Vladimir Putin, adding, "You'd have to be an amoeba not to understand that," they say.
Some blamed France, others Ukraine. One post said Ukraine had killed Prigozhin at the behest of US special services "and the Anglo-Saxons". / Reuters
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