The Kremlin spokesman on Tuesday denied knowing the whereabouts of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who according to a Belarusian surveillance group will have arrived by plane today at an airport in Minsk.
“I have no data on him,” Peskov said during his usual telephone press conference.
According to the Belarusian research team Gayun, which monitors military activities in the country, the private jet of the Russian oligarch who heads the Wagner group will have landed at Machulishchi military airport near Minsk this Tuesday.
The plane will have landed at 7:37 local time (4:37 in Lisbon), according to data from the Flightradar24 portal, which also tracks air links.
It is an Embraer Legacy 600 with registration number RA-02795 and has been on the US sanctions list since 2019 due to its connection to Prigozhin, despite the old registration being M-SAAN.
According to the organization Gayun, another private plane number RA-02878 from Saint Petersburg, Russia, also landed at Machulishchi airport at 07:58 (04:58 in Lisbon).
It is not yet known whether Russian oligarch Prigozhin was on board one of the two planes.
Information about these two aircraft has not been officially reported by the Minsk authorities, nor has it been directly followed up by journalists or verified by independent sources.
The leader of the Wagner group was last seen in public on the night of June 24, leaving the city of Rostov-on-Don, occupied by contract fighters, in a vehicle.
On Monday, without disclosing his whereabouts, the oligarch published an audio message via Telegram in which he stated that “the armed uprising” was not intended to overthrow the Russian government, but to protest against the intentions of the Defense Ministry, which accused of wanting to dismantle the Russian government. Company.
Source: DN
