Russia Allegedly Plans to Assassinate Wagner Leader; Prigozhin Now Staying in Windowless Hotel

To avoid getting assassinated, Prigozhin is staying in a windowless hotel.

Russia is allegedly planning an assassination against the Wagner PMC Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Russia Allegedly Plans to Assassinate Wagner Leader; Prigozhin Now Staying in Windowless Hotel
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This detail was shared by Ukrainian military leader Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov. In his recent interview with The Drive, Budanov said in November that Ukraine was already aware of Prigozhin's mutiny operation.

Now, the Ukrainian general shared more details. This time, he talked about Russia's alleged assassination plan.

Russia Allegedly Plans to Assassinate Wagner Leader

According to The Drive's latest report, Budanov claimed that Russia's FSB (Federal Security Service) was tasked to assassinate Prigozhin.

Russia Allegedly Plans to Assassinate Wagner Leader; Prigozhin Now Staying in Windowless Hotel
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"We are aware that the FSB was charged with a task to assassinate him. Will they be successful in doing that? We'll see with time," said the Ukrainian military official.

He added that if FSB really pushes its planned assassination against Prigozhin, it will not be a fast one.

Kyrylo Budanov explained that it would take FSB some time to achieve the proper approaches and reach the stage when they're ready to conduct the assassination operation.

"But once again, I'd like to underline that it's a big open question if they would they be successful in fulfilling that," added Budanov.

Belarus President Talks Putin Out of Assassination

Business Insider reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin was convinced by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko out of the planned assassination against the Wagner leader.

Lukashenko said that Putin could assassinate Prigozhin. However, he mustn't do it.

Alexander added that if Russia decided to push its assassination operation, there wouldn't have been any negotiations.

Wagner Chief Staying in Windowless Hotel

Although the Belarus leader claimed that he had already talked Putin out of it, Prigozhin still wasn't taking any chances.

The Daily Mail UK reported that the Wagner PMC chief decided to stay at a windowless hotel just to avoid any assassination attempt.

This detail was shared by a U.S. intelligence chief, claiming that Prigozhin spent a day in a secure hotel room before going to Moscow.

Based on flight tracking data, the Embraer Legacy 600 business jet, which belongs to Prigozhin, departed the Machulishchy Air Base and landed in the Russian capital. If you want to learn more about this, you can visit this link.

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