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[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 172 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lotta windows in airplanes.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 174 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Tragically the plane crashed into a surface to air missile.

Edit: yeah, this is actually what happened, no subtlety here, damn.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 98 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Like, fucking literally.

"Crash" my ass, BBC, you say it got shot down in the article, how is that not a more accurate and sensational headline?

"Prigozhin got blown the fuck up, like everyone knew he would the moment he pussed out, the Nazi coward."

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

He needed to take Moscow, only chance he had to survive.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Technically, they just say that a Wagner linked Telegram channel said it got shot down. They're probably waiting for better proof/additional sources before they take the full step of saying it was shot down themselves (at which point I think it'd get added to the headline).

[–] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the only source for that (at present) is the Wagner Group, who have a (dead) dog in the fight and are not bastions of truth. NYT will be trying to confirm it before saying so.

Do they have a dog in this? Last I heard they were getting executed in the field if they showed support for the coup.

[–] suction@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Well, it did definitely crash at the end.

[–] FlowVoid@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

So he fell out of a window created by a surface to air missile.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, so he started the uprising again, beginning by brutally slamming a plane into a defenseless russian SAM? /s

[–] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Totally an accident of course

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I didn't know airplanes couldn't handle their polonium.

[–] 299792458c137@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

more windows are reserved only for stauncher enemies.