Wagner warlord, Yevgeny Prigozhin has been seen in new footage ‘dismissing reports of his elimination, and insisting that ‘everything is fine.’
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It comes after a series of claims that the Wagner boss may have cheated death by putting a body double on his doomed business jet which crashed in Russia on 23 August.
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Many believe he was assassinated by Vladimir Putin in revenge for the coup he led in June against the dictator’s regime.
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In the footage, Prigozhin, 62, is seen wearing military fatigues in a car and says: ‘For those discussing whether or not I am alive.
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‘How am I doing? It’s the weekend, the second half of August [20]23. I am in Africa,’ he says, speaking to camera. ‘So fans of discussing my elimination, intimate life, earnings, or whatever, as a matter of fact, everything is fine.’
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The video was posted by Grey Zone, a Telegram channel linked to Wagner.
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An earlier post by the channel showing his grave was captioned: ‘He once said that the dead speak louder than the living. He proved it!’
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Grey Zone did not say when the footage was filmed.
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The warlord is known to have been in Africa, where Wagner has interests and military operations before returning to Moscow ahead of the air crash last week.
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Pro-war Military Informant channel suspects the video was recorded on the weekend of 19-20 August, when he was in Africa days before Russia said he and nine others were killed when his business jet came down near Moscow.
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