Prigozhin, whose brutal fighters were feared in Ukraine, Africa and Syria, was eulogized Thursday by President Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian leader was behind the crash that many saw as an assassination.
President Joe Biden, speaking to reporters Wednesday, said he believed Putin was likely behind the crash.At least 8 bodies have been recovered after the plane crashed in Russia's Tver region on Wednesday. Kristin Thorne has more from the newsroom.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment, did not offer any details on what caused the explosion, which was widely believed to be vengeance for the mutiny in June that posed the biggest challenge to Putin's 23-year rule.A man looks at a portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin installed at an informal memorial in St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 25, 2023.
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 grueling battle. Wagner fighters also have played a central role projecting Russian influence in global trouble spots, first in Africa and then in Syria.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov took offense at that. "It is not for the U.S. president, in my opinion, to talk about certain tragic events of this nature," he said Friday. Putin said he had known Prigozhin since the early 1990s and described him as "a man of difficult fate" who had "made serious mistakes in life, and he achieved the results he needed - both for himself and, when I asked him about it, for the common cause, as in these last months. He was a talented man, a talented businessman."
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