The Kremlin said on Friday that Western suggestions that Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed on its orders were an 'absolute lie' and declined to definitively confirm his death, citing the need to wait for test results.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the crew of the Alyosha T-80 tank, which destroyed a Ukrainian armoured convoy on the Zaporizhzhia direction in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2023.
Putin cited "preliminary information" as indicating that Prigozhin and his top associates in the Wagner mercenary group had been killed.
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