Yevgeny Prigozhin, the recently deceased founder of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group, was recorded downplaying threats to his life in a video purportedly shot just days before his death in a plane crash.

The Wagner Group founder was killed last week when a plane he was flying on, traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, crashed, killing everyone on board. Russian authorities have announced that DNA testing confirmed that Prigozhin was aboard the aircraft.

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A Wagner-affiliated group posted a video of Prigozhin on Telegram on Thursday, which purportedly showed him downplaying supposed threats against him.

"For those discussing whether I am alive or not, how am I doing ... It is the weekend now, the second half of August of the year 2023, I'm in Africa. Therefore, to all lovers of discussing my liquidation, intimate life, earnings, anything else — everything is fine," he said in the video, according to NBC News.

The Washington Examiner has not verified when or where the video was filmed.

Prigozhin's reference to the weekend means it could have been shot the weekend of Aug. 19 and 20. Another video from days later purportedly showed him wearing the same military fatigues in a similar-looking desert background.

Roughly two months before his death, Prigozhin led his forces in a brief revolt against Moscow, with the goal of ousting Russian defense leaders, whom he had accused of wrongdoing. Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko claimed to have brokered an agreement to avert a major confrontation a day after it began. Prigozhin's forces had been on the frontlines of Russia's battle for Bakhmut in Ukraine for months and suffered tens of thousands of casualties during the war, though they have since pulled back from the front.

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Wagner has long operated in various African nations, trading the security and weapons they can provide in exchange for access to resources.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has denied the government was involved in the plane crash but has said it's possible it was "a deliberate atrocity."