The Prigozhin-linked jet crashed Aug. 23 in an area north of Moscow and killed all 10 people on board, including the Wagner boss and the group’s commander Dmitry Utkin, according to Russian authorities.
The Facebook and Twitter posts were written in English, while the TikTok posts were spotted in Ukrainian and Russian.
But Reuters traced the video to June 24, 2023, when it was shared online in relation to a plane crash in Russia’s Voronezh region during the aborted Wagner mutiny (t.me/c/1732054517/20231, t.me/c/1732054517/20231 and here ).
Russian media outlet Fontanka said the video captured the crash of an IL-22 near Kantemirovka (here).
The video can be traced back to at least June 2023, thus predating the Aug. 23 crash.
Persons:
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Dmitry Utkin, uploaders, Fontanka, Read
Organizations:
Reuters, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram
Locations:
Moscow, Russia’s Voronezh, Russian, Kantemirovka