Alexander Totmin last communicated with his family from Africa on August 21. Until midnight, he corresponded with his wife, to whom he informed that he had connected to the Internet “for a little while.” All day on August 22, none of the guards made contact. The first news of the return arrived on the phone of Alexander Totmin’s wife on August 23 at around 13.00. He wrote: “Hi. I’ll come in the evening.” After that, the security guard was in touch all day, actively communicating in instant messengers and social networks. At this time the group flew to Moscow. In what specific way is not known. During the day, Totmin discussed his friends’ wedding with his wife, recorded audio messages for her, told her that he smoked outside, etc. He promised to be home around 20.00. He wrote that he was very tired. One of the last messages: “I’ll come home in the evening, I hope. I want to go home, I miss you.” After that, Alexander Totmin asked his wife about his affairs and she sent him a reply message minute by minute. However, the subscriber did not read the message and suddenly disappeared from communication at 17.38. How they cut it off.
At the same time, the wives of other mercenaries (Makaryan and Matuseev, Propustin’s wife did not communicate with her husband) tell approximately the same thing. Makaryan sat at the same table with Totmin and even photographed him taking pictures of his salad. The security guards of the leader of the PMC Wagner were clearly waiting for the boss, judging by the surroundings in the photo, in the airport catering facility. It is known that on August 23 it was Matusey’s (Nikolai Matuseev) turn to drive his boss around Moscow. And it was he who brought Yevgeny Prigozhin to Sheremetyevo. At the same time, the wives of all three guards noted an extremely atypical reaction from their husbands – all of them abruptly and one by one (Totmin, Makaryan and Matuseev), with a difference of several minutes, each disappeared from communication. The last one is at 17.50.
The wives of the victims themselves found this out – they met with other widows (all of them live in a service house in St. Petersburg) and it seemed strange to everyone that their husbands disappeared so abruptly without saying goodbye.
“I’ve been with my husband for 10 years…. Whenever he had the opportunity, he did not break the connection. My favorite phrase was “gone, don’t lose me,” it meant goodbye. He could have written that he was going on a plane or that the battery was running low,” one of the widows told the Cheka-OGPU.
According to the relatives of the victims, Prigozhin never demanded that his subordinates “blow themselves up” when he appeared. Bodyguards usually corresponded with loved ones directly from the jet, they could send photos from the plane, this was not prohibited. What happened just before takeoff (less than half an hour after that, an explosion thundered in the sky) is still unknown. Or Prigozhin, for some reason, strictly ordered all guards to turn off their phones. Or some event occurred that left them without communication.
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