Putin’s enemies mysteriously die one by one

The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) reported that Prigojin, the founder of Wagner, died in the plane that crashed yesterday in Tver. In the private plane, where 10 people died, Prigojin was also present, as well as his deputy and one of the founders of Wagner, Dmitriy Utkin, and the most prominent names of the group Sergey Propustin, Yevgeniy Makaryan, Aleksandr Totmin, Valeriy Cekalov and Nikolay Matuseyev .

After the death of the Wagner leader, Putin’s televised statement immediately after the June uprising read: “Our response will be harsh. The words “We will punish the traitors” came to my mind. Putin had said: “I will never forgive betrayal” on a TV show he had previously been a guest on.

After the news of the death of the Wagner leader, all eyes turned to Putin. Prigokhin is not the first person who saw the Russian leader as an enemy and lost his life. According to BBC news, the names who did not reconcile with Putin and eventually lost their lives or were near death are as follows:

ALEKSEY NAVALNI

Russia’s main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, flew to Germany for treatment in August 2020 after being poisoned in Siberia with a substance Western experts concluded was the Novichok nerve agent. The Kremlin has denied the allegations of any connection to the incident.

Navalni voluntarily returned to Russia in 2021, gaining worldwide recognition. However, he was arrested as soon as he arrived in the country. Navalny’s political opposition movement was declared illegal and “extremist”.

This month, a Russian court extended Navalny’s sentence by another 19 years.

SERGEY SKRIPAL

Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent who passed state secrets to British intelligence, and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in Salisbury, England, in March 2018.

While the police were investigating the bank where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were…

The couple were hospitalized in critical condition and British officials said they had been poisoned with Novichok, a group of nerve agents developed by the Soviet military in the 1970s and 1980s. Both managed to survive.

Russia denied any role in the poisoning and said Britain was inciting anti-Russian hysteria.

VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA

Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza said he believes there were attempts to poison him in 2015 and 2017.

A German laboratory later found high levels of mercury, copper, manganese and zinc in Murza, according to medical reports seen by Reuters. Moscow has denied any claim to have played a role in this affair.

ALEKSENDER LITVINENKO

A former KGB agent and Putin opponent, Alexander Litvinenko, died in 2006 at the age of 43 after drinking green tea laced with a rare and powerful radioactive isotope, polonium-210, at London’s Millennium Hotel, officials said. British.

A British inquiry concluded in 2016 that Putin likely consented to the assassination. The Kremlin denied any involvement in the incident.

An investigation by a senior British judge revealed that the assassination was carried out by the former agent’s KGB-era bodyguard, Andrei Lugovoy, and another Russian national, Dmitri Kovtun, possibly as part of an operation run by the Federal Security Service. Russian Security (FSB). .

Litvinenko had fled Russia for England six years before he was poisoned.

ALEKSANDER PEREPILICHNYY

The 44-year-old Russian was found dead near his luxury home on a guarded private estate on the outskirts of London in November 2012, after going for a run.

Alexander Perepilichnyy took refuge in the UK in 2009 after helping a Swiss investigation into the money laundering system in Russia. His sudden death raised the possibility that he had been killed.

British police have ruled out the possibility of murder, despite suspicions that he may have been killed with a rare poison. At the pre-investigation hearing, it was revealed that traces of a rare and deadly poison from the yellow jasmine plant were found in his stomach.

Perepilichny had a large bowl of soup containing sorrel, a popular Russian dish. Russia denied any involvement.

VIKTOR YUSCHENKO

Viktor Yushchenko, then the leader of the Ukrainian opposition, was poisoned during the 2004 presidential election campaign when he led a pro-Western list against pro-Moscow prime minister Viktor Yanukovych.

Yushchenko said he was poisoned while having dinner outside kyiv with officials from the Ukrainian intelligence agency. Russia said that he was not interested.

His body was found to contain 1,000 times more dioxin than is normally present. Due to the poisoning, his face and body were disfigured and he subsequently underwent dozens of surgeries.

ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was covering human rights violations, was shot dead outside her Moscow apartment on October 7, 2006, after returning home from the supermarket.

The murder of Politkovskaya, a 48-year-old mother of two, sparked a huge reaction in the West and highlighted the dangers for journalists working in Russia.

PAVEL ANTOV

In December 2022, the Russian businessman was reported to have fallen from a hotel window in Rayagada, India, 25 days after his 65th birthday.

According to the BBC report, the politician and millionaire criticized Putin’s war with Ukraine after the Kiev missile attack, but immediately deleted the message, claiming someone else had written it.

MIKHAIL INJURY

Businessman and media mogul Mikhail Lesin, a former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in a Washington DC hotel room in November 2015 after “blunt force trauma to the head.”

According to the Daily Beast, Lesin, founder of the Russia Today (RT) television network, was considering making a deal with the FBI to protect himself from corruption allegations before he died.

Lesin had been at the center of Russia’s political life for years; He also knew too much about the rich and powerful.

BORIS BEREZOVSKY

Boris Berezovsky was a Russian oligarch who fled to England after falling out with Putin. During his exile he threatened to overthrow Putin. Found dead in his Berkshire home in March 2013, although it has been claimed that he committed suicide, Berezovsky was found dead in a locked bathroom with a tie around his neck. The coroner could not explain how he died.