Wagner official channel maintains no news and that any alleged Wagner commander statements are fake.

Wagner official channel maintains no news and that any alleged Wagner commander statements are fake

"Friends. Once again, we want to remind you that the statements that appeared allegedly from the commanders of the Wagner PMC are fake. None of our commanders, publicly or publicly, said anything. Please trust only our official sources."

https://t.me/razgruzka_vagnera/280

Meanwhile, a "Russian" "conspiracy" telegram channel claim the body is ID-ed as Prigozhin via missing finger – this post is used as the source for a increasingly viral news reporting claiming this is the case, including DailyBeast and United24

"A source of the Cheka-OGPU reported that the body of Yevgeny Prigozhin was officially identified in the morgue, he was identified by one of the commanders of the PMC Wagner. The main sign was the absence of a finger. Also, by height and tattoos in the morgue, the second leader of Wagner, Dmitry Utkin, was identified."

https://t.me/vchkogpu/41204