The civil aviation authority in Russia listed the names of 10 victims in the plane crash that happened yesterday afternoon near Moscow.
On board were reported to be: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, as well as 6 important exponents of the private army led by him, including right wing Dmitry Utkin, co-founder of Wagner.
Other members of the mercenaries who lost their lives were: Sergej Propustin, Yevgeny Makaryan, Alexander Totmin, Valeriy Chekalov and Nikolai Matuseev.
All were key characters of Wagner's "Major Staff". Pilot Aleksei Levshin, Rustam Karimov, co-pilot and stewardess Kristina Raspopova also died alongside them.
Wagner's number two, Dmitry Utkin
Utkin was born on June 11, 1970 in Asbest, a village in the Sverdlovsk Oblast of the Soviet Union. His mother was an engineer who divorced Utkin's father when he was very young. He was described by his classmates as very studious, but arrogant. After graduating from high school in Smoline, Utkin moved to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), where he entered the Higher Combined Arms Command School SM Kirov and later joined the GRU Special Forces. In the 1990s, he married Elena Shcherbinina, with whom he had 3 children. They divorced in the early 2000s. In 2015, Shcherbinina reported Utkin as missing on a television program.
According to some media reports, Utkin is an admirer of Nazi Germany and has numerous Nazi tattoos, including Schutzstaffel (SS) insignia. Utkin is also said to have named himself Wagner after the German composer Richard Wagner, because his work was greatly admired by Adolf Hitler and appropriated by the Nazis. Members of the Wagner Group have said that Utkin is a Rodnover, a believer in the native Slavic faith. Utkin has not made any public appearances since 2016.
In June 2017, the United States imposed sanctions against Utkin as the head of the Wagner Group. In December 2021, the Council of the European Union imposed restrictive measures against Utkin and others associated with the Wagner Group. Utkin was accused of being “responsible for grave human rights abuses committed by the group, which include torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings.
Valery Chekalov, shareholder and left wing
Chekalov was Prigozhin's deputy at Wagner and was said to be in charge of the group's security service.
He was targeted for US sanctions last month after he "acted for or on behalf of Prigozhin" and facilitated "the shipment of munitions to the Russian Federation".
Chekalov ishte aksionari i kompanisë Evropolis e cila kishte arritur marrëveshje fitimprurëse të naftës me qeverinë siriane. Kompania gjithashtu prokuroi armë dhe pajisje për Wagner.
Truproja Yevgeny Makaryan
Makaryan, ishte një luftëtar i Wagner, dhe nga disa burime ruse supozohet se ishte truproja e Prigozhin.
Kanali i njohur rus Telegram BRIEF raportoi se ai u bashkua me Wagner në mars 2016, duke marrë nofkën “Makar”.
Totmin, Propustin, Matuseev: Truproja dhe luftëtarë
Alexander Totmin ishte një luftëtar në Wagner, i cili gjithashtu supozohej të ishte një nga truprojat e Prigozhin. Ai ishte gjithashtu i përfshirë në misionin e Wagner në Sudan.
Sergej Propustin, 44 vjeç, ishte një luftëtar Wagner që shërbeu si një granatahedhës zbulimi. BRIEF raportoi se ai iu bashkua Wagner në mars 2015, duke marrë nofkën “Kedr”.
Nikolai Matuseev is not included in the official list of Wagner. However, BRIEF reported that a man with the same name joined Wagner in January 2017, joining the unit known as Makaryan that operated in Syria.
The sad fate of the crew
At the bottom of the crew: Commander Aleksei Levshin, 51 years old, his co-pilot Rustam Karimov, 29 years old, and flight attendant Kristina Raspopova, 39 years old. Unlike other passengers, victims of work.