Prigojine’s mother tells the rebellion against Putin

Two years after the death of Evgueni Prigojine in an aircraft crash, the mother of the Wagner group tries to restore the image of her son.

According to Violetta Prigojina, her son expected to die after the failure of his rebellion in 2023. To the Russian information site Your photoshe says that before his death, he had been more and more withdrawn from himself and seemed deeply resigned.

A misunderstanding with the air of a coup d’etat

In his eyes, Rostov’s taking was not an “uprising”, but a “walk”. She says:

She thinks that her son spontaneously decided to launch the operation.

He finally went back, especially because he did not want to kill young Russian soldiers. The fire of a fighter plane by Wagner mercenaries, who cost his crew life, would have been only an accident, according to Violetta Prigojina.

“I warned it”

Violetta Prigojina claims to have warned her son before his coup:

But Evgueni Prigojine would have said:

Today she seeks to defend her memory and denies rumors circulating on her criminal past. Her stay in prison, in the 1980s, was not exceptional at the time, she pleaded.

A conflict with the army

And the theories that Evgueni Prigojine simulated the crash of his private jet to escape? Violetta Prigojina recalls genetic analyzes. She is convinced that her son died in the accident, which occurred a few months after walking on Moscow.

In the spring of 2023, Evgueni Prigojine multiplied the videos denouncing the Russian Ministry of Defense, which wanted to integrate its mercenaries into the regular army. He called on the population to revolt and, on June 24, his troops took control of military installations in the city of Rostov-sur-le-Don, near the Ukrainian border. A rebellion that will end quickly.

In August 2023, Evgueni Prigojine and several Wagner executives die in the crash of their private jet.

Adapted from German by Tanja Maeder