After crash of Prigozhin's plane, Wagnerites try to leave Belarus for Russia

Following reports of the supposed death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, fighters from the Wagner Group PMC are forming convoys to leave their camps in Belarus for Russia. 

Source: Ukraine’s National Resistance Center; Belaruski Hajun, an independent Belarusian military monitoring media outlet

Details: The National Resistance Center noted that, as the Belarusian underground resistance movement had reported, some of the Wagner Group’s camps in Belarus were being dismantled on the evening of 23 August.

The convoys are presumably heading towards the border with Russia, but Belarusian security services are trying to prevent the mercenaries' vehicles from leaving.

At the same time, Belaruski Hajun reported that serious disruption in mobile Internet connection had begun in the village of Tsel, near the Wagner Group mercenaries’ camp.

Background: 

• On the evening of 23 August, a small plane crashed in Russia's Tver Oblast, and the Russians claimed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, was on board.
• The Grey Zone Telegram channel, which is close to the Wagner Group, claimed that Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane had been shot down by air defence fire.
• It was also shared that a terrorist attack on board is being considered as a line of enquiry regarding the crash of Prigozhin's plane.
• The VCHK-OGPU Telegram channel, which is also affiliated with the Wagner Group, reported that the bodies of Prigozhin and his deputy Utkin had been found and identified, and Grey Zone added that "Prigozhin died as a result of the actions of traitors to Russia". 
• The Russian media saw a certain symbolism in the fact that the plane crash occurred on 23 August, exactly two months after the Wagner Group’s mutiny [Prigozhin announced his "march of justice" on the evening of 23 June – ed.].

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