'There's not much that happens in Russia that Putin's not behind,' U.S. President Joe Biden said responding to reports of Prigozhin's death.
, could have"catastrophic consequences," for the Russian army if the reports of his passing are true.
The remarks by Saponkov come shortly after reports that Prigozhin was aboard a private jet that crashed in the Russian region of Tver on Wednesday.
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