After tensions between the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the mercenary would have used his own Embraer Legacy jet to fly to Belarus today (27/06).
According to information from the investigative group Gayun, the Legacy registration RA-02795 was seen flying over the Rostov region, completing the flight to Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The group also claims that the Legacy 600 has been linked to the Wagner Group since 2019, when the United States included the jet on the sanctions list. On the flight tracking website Flightradar24 it shows that in fact Prigozhin's plane is in Belarus.
Interestingly, the flight took a kind of detour around Ukrainian territory, as Ukraine's airspace is blocked as a result of the conflicts.
The possible extradition of Yevgeny Prigozhin in Belarus is the result of an agreement following a mutiny by the Wagner Group following the disagreement and accusations of unplanned attacks by the Russian military command.
According to data from the Planespotters.net website, the RA-02795 was produced in 2007, as part of Linxair in Serbia, also operating in the fleets of International Jet Management (Austria), MNG Jet (Turkey), Autolex Transport, when in September 2020, became part of the Wagner Group.
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