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The chances that this is an accident are pretty low. Putin wanted to get as little blowback as possible from knocking him off, since he's widely popular. I'm su

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• inversia 3y ago
  Presumably 8, because judging by the statements, Dmitry Utkin - his right-hand man - was on board. He is a hardened criminal, a murderer and a lover of Nazi symbols on his body.
  • 5e92cb50239222b 3y ago
    You should also mention Utkin's callsign: Wagner.
• Pigalowda 3y ago
  I don’t think many on a Wagner private aircraft are “innocent”. Maybe not even the pilot or stewardess, if there was one.
• dredmorbius 3y ago
  As with other suspected recent Russian / Putin assassinations, the very audacity is a key component. "We'll blow your plane out of the sky and send nine others to their graves" is a strong message, much as polonium tea, street gunnings, and killing journalists in their homes have been.
• pvaldes 3y ago
  > murdering 9 other innocent people Everybody in that list were high ranks in the Wagner group. All supporting if not directly commiting many atrocities and war crimes in Sudan, Syria or Ukranie. We talk of a group executing people with hammers or cutting their hands and beheading them while recording all, and sending the video to all the contacts in the phone of the victim. Calling them "innocent people" is extremely generous. The most interesting part is how carefully the killer assured to behead the top of the group at the same time in one single hit.