Mysterious accidents, perfect murders and suicides: How Putin's enemies disappeared one by one

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Mysterious accidents, perfect murders and suicides: How Putin's enemies
How Putin's enemies disappeared one by one

Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed as one of the 10 victims aboard the Embraer-135 private jet, according to Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency.

The agency has also confirmed that Wagner's number two, Dmitry Utkin, also died in the plane crash on Wednesday evening in the Tver region.

In Russia, in Europe and even in America, there are so many sworn enemies of Vladimir Putin who have met a bad end.

Unexplained accidents, assaults, suicides and absolutely perfect murders.

A trail of blood that spans time, from the early 2000s to today. Of course, these are Kremlin-related episodes entirely coincidentally, at least until proven otherwise.

The site Gbnews.com has calculated that since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine in February of last year, there have been 39 mysterious deaths of figures related to the Russian president.

The last case that ended up in the newspapers dates back to three months ago, when oligarch Sergei Grishin, known for selling his California villa to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, died of septicemia in Moscow.

Not a very famous person, but still a former banker, who had sharply criticized the work of the Kremlin master, like other entrepreneurs involved in strange murder-suicide chains, along with the whole family: Vasily Melnikov, Vladislav Avayev and Sergei Protosenya.

Far better known, and almost indisputably linked to the state apparatus, is the case of Aleksey Navalny, Putin's main political opponent, who suffered a sensational poisoning attempt in Siberia before going to prison.

While he was at a political meeting, men belonging to the army's secret service, the GRU, contaminated his underwear with Novichok.

The two mysterious Russian "tourists" also responded to the GRU, which in 2018 in Salisbury, Great Britain, distributed the same nerve agent on the door handle of a former Russian agent who had defected to the British years ago and that it was providing other important information.

Also in that case, the target, Sergei Skripal managed to survive the poisoning along with his daughter Yulia, who had also touched the door.

Another high-profile case in which figures connected to the Russian secret services used toxic (in this case radioactive) materials is that of Alexander Litvinenko, one of the first great assassinations, which took place in London in 2006.

He too was a former agent of the "enemy", who continued to "bother" Putin. Two of his former colleagues served him a cup of polonium tea in a hotel in Mayfair. The man died in hospital after a terrible agony.

Much more often, hired killers (in Russia it has never been revealed who the instigators were) preferred to use more direct, albeit less sophisticated, methods.

In the same fall of 2006, journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead while waiting for the elevator in her home. In fact someone had previously tried to poison him on the plane but it didn't go well.

Again, several exponents of human rights organizations were killed by gunfire, such as Natalia Estemirova, kidnapped and killed in 2009, lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, shot together in the same year.

Po ashtu edhe Boris Nemtsov, një figurë kryesore e opozitës që ishte gjithashtu zëvendëskryeministër nën Yelsin, i cili u qëllua pranë Kremlinit në 2015.

Raste të panumërta aksidentesh, të gjitha mjaft të çuditshme. Si ai i Mikhail Lesin, i cili kishte qenë ministër i informacionit me Putinin dhe që në vitin 2015 u gjet i vdekur në një dhomë hoteli në Washington.

Autopsia konstatoi se ai kishte pirë sasi të mëdha alkooli dhe kishte goditur me dhunë kokën. Ai dyshonte gjithashtu për vdekjen e ish-oligarkut, i cili kishte qenë shumë i afërt me Putinin përpara se të ndahej, Boris Berezovsky.

Në vitin 2013, trupi i tij u gjet në banjën e vilës së tij në Surrey.

The fall was fatal for some Kremlin critics. The best known, perhaps, are the former chairman of the Lukoil oil company Ravil Maganov and the billionaire Pavel Antonov, who both died last year after criticizing the Special Military Operation.

Maganov fell from a hospital window in Moscow, while Antonov flew from a hotel window while in India to celebrate his birthday.


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