The Kremlin has slammed accusations that it killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin as an « absolute lie » — as top US military brass cautioned that confirming the mercenary leader’s death will take some time.
The Kremlin has slammed accusations that it killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin as an “absolute lie” — as top US military brass cautioned that confirming the mercenary leader’s death will take some time.
Two days after a plane crash that is presumed to have killed the feared fighter, who led a mutiny against the Russian military, neither the Kremlin nor Wagner has officially confirmed the 62-year-old’s death.
Prigozhin, along with six other passengers and three crew members, was listed in the manifest of the doomed Embraer Legacy 600 jet.
There has been rampant speculation as to the cause of the crash, but preliminary US intelligence reports suggested that the Wagner leader’s private jet was downed by an explosion inside the aircraft.
On Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov clapped back at Western insinuations that the plane was downed on Putin’s orders.
“There is now a great deal of speculation surrounding this plane crash and the tragic deaths of the plane’s passengers, including Yevgeny Prigozhin,” Peskov told reporters. “Of course, in the West, all this speculation is presented from a well-known angle.
