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Prigozhin's second jet lands in Baku FlightRadar data

25 August 2023 09:31

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead in a private jet crash near Moscow.

His movements, according to BBC, have been largely unknown since his failed mutiny in June, when his fighters seized a Russian city and reportedly shot down several aircraft.

He initially appeared to escape punishment by agreeing to move to Belarus, although he was known to be in Russia at least once since then.

On August 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested he had returned from Africa - where the Wagner group is still active - on the day of his reported death.

Here's what we know about his movements in the lead-up to the fatal crash.

The Russian aviation authority said the crashed plane was an Embraer.

A Legacy 600 model from that maker has long been linked to Prigozhin. It has the registration number RA-02795.

An unverified video from one of the crash sites shows debris with the last few digits of a registration number painted on - the numbers appear to be 795.

This aircraft is registered to Autolex Transport which the US government has linked to the Wagner boss.

It is presumed to have been in Moscow since 18 July as this was its first flight listed since then.

A spokesperson for FlightRadar24, a popular plane tracking website, said it's likely the jet was wasn't used during this period.

But there are only partial flight records for its previous travel history, with frequent long gaps when it had been travelling outside Russia.

We can't confirm where the plane departed from before the crash, and we can't confirm if Prigozhin was on-board.

In recent months it made several journeys to and from Moscow and St Petersburg, and has been pictured several times by local media in Belarus, where Wagner is now thought to be based.

There has been speculation that Prigozhin was travelling on a different plane, registered as RA-02748.

Several media outlets have also tied this plane to the Wagner boss.

Flight records - also partially inaccessible - show that it departed from St Petersburg earlier on August 23 and flew towards Moscow. Its tracking data stops near Ostafyevo airport in the Russian capital.

It flew on August 24 from Moscow to Baku, Azerbaijan.

The luxury jet has flown frequently this year - within Russia, and to areas of the Middle East, central Asia and Africa.

Yet another plane linked in news reports to Wagner, an IL-76 with the registration number RA-76845, left Moscow on 18 August for Damascus, Syria and travelled to Bamako in Mali the following day.

It flew back to Damascus on 20 August and on 21 August flew back to Moscow.

This is the same day the video showing Prigozhin supposedly in Africa was released.

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