The Kremlin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov flatly rejected the allegations it was behind a plane crash that is presumed to have killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
, even as suspicions grew that the Russian leader was behind a crash that many saw as an assassination.President Vladimir Putin eulogised Prigozhin even as suspicions grew that the Russian leader was behind the crash
"Of course, in the West those speculations are put out under a certain angle, and all of it is a complete lie." Wagner mercenaries were key elements of Russia's forces in its war in Ukraine, particularly in the long fight to take the city of Bakhmut, the conflict's most gruelling battle. President Joe Biden, speaking to reporters on Wednesday, said he believed Putin was likely behind the crash.
It was not clear why several high-ranking members of Wagner, who are normally exceedingly careful about their security, would have been on the same flight. The purpose of their trip to St. Petersburg was unknown. "We remember this, we know, and we will not forget," he said in a televised interview with the Russian-installed leader of Ukraine's partially occupied Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin.
Sergei Mironov, the leader of the pro-Kremlin Fair Russia party and former chairman of the upper house of parliament, said on his Telegram channel that Prigozhin had "messed with too many people in Russia, Ukraine and the West.
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