Posted on 10/06/2023 5:36:39 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian patriotic bloggers on Friday poured scorn on President Vladimir Putin's intimation that mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane was blown up with hand grenades while those on board were high on cocaine and alcohol.
The private Embraer jet on which Prigozhin was travelling to St Petersburg crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people on board on Aug. 23, including Dmitry Utkin, co-founder of the mercenary Wagner group, four bodyguards and a crew of three.
Putin said on Thursday fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of the dead and that investigators had ruled out any external impact on the plane such as a missile.
However Putin said investigators had been wrong not to have carried out alcohol and drug blood tests, given that five kilograms of cocaine had been found by the Federal Security Service at Wagner premises in St Petersburg earlier this year.
Wagner communications channels were silent, but some supporters and patriotic bloggers expressed disbelief.
"So a short summary: the most combat-ready unit in the history of modern Russia was commanded by alcoholics and junkies who, being professional military men, did not know how to handle hand grenades?" said the Children of the Arbat pro-war Telegram channel.
Prigozhin, who banned his men from using alcohol and drugs on pain of severe punishment, died two months after leading a brief mutiny against Russia's defence establishment that posed the biggest challenge to Putin's rule since the former KGB spy came to power in 1999.
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You miss him don’t ya? *sniff*
What kind of bridge is Fabulist Guy trying to sell us today?
Is Putin's stage 4 elbow cancer getting short shrift this week?
Not as much as he misses Viktor Sokolov, and the fact that the Ukies missed Viktor Sokolov....
Cocaine, grenades? Where’s all the gold, bundles of Euros, and Russian (American?) hookers?
I bet he and Hunter used to party all the time.
Who knows, but Prigozhin did ask for it.
Cocaine and Grenades.
Band name, bar name, boutique name or amusement park attraction?
Booze bottles were planted on the dead bodies of the Chechens at the Moscow theater.
You have to admit the Russians have a playbook and stick to it.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
They allow bloggers to comment about this in Russia.
I thought Russia was such a horrible place.
You’re just a troll. And a clown.
Cognitive Dissonance is setting in on your worldview.
No path to victory for Ukraine and the cash spigot is being turned off.
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