On the evening of June 27, an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with the tail number RA-02795, which is thought to belong to Yevgeny Prigozhin, departed the Machulishchy Air Base near Minsk.
The independent monitoring group Belaruski Hajun reports that the business jet left the air base at 10:39 p.m. local time and was headed toward Russia. Prigozhin’s plane spent a total of 14 hours and 59 minutes at Machulishchy Air Base, reports the monitoring group. According to FlightRadar24, Prigozhin’s plane had crossed the Belarus-Russia border, and was moving toward Moscow.
A second business jet with the tail number RA-02878 had also reportedly crossed the Belarus-Russia border, and was headed toward St. Petersburg, according to FlightRadar24. The jet had arrived to the Machulishchy Air Base from St. Petersburg on the morning of June 27.
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