By Patrick Webb
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s body double was murdered in last week’s plane crash, according to a Russian political analyst, but the Wagner chief himself is still alive.
Even while Russia holds Prigozhin’s burial, which Vladimir Putin is declining to attend, Dr. Valery Solovey claims that Prigozhin is “alive, well, and free” in an undisclosed country.
The astounding claim states that Prigozhin deceived in an assassination attempt that was approved by Putin and planned by his security council.
The political analyst, a former professor at Moscow’s famed Institute of International Relations [MGIMO], a school for spies and diplomats, claims that Prigozhin is currently preparing for his retaliation.
Dr. Solovey claims that Prigozhin’s DNA was discovered at the crash site in the Tver region although the Russian authorities were aware that the murder attempt on Wagner’s leader had failed because a body double—which the warlord was known to use—got on the aircraft in his place.
He disputed statements made by US intelligence that the plane was brought down by an explosion inside by stating that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was shot down by a Russian air defense system…